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The Creative Independent
A resource of interviews and essays with working artists and writers about creative practice, offering candid advice on…
The Creative Penn
Author Joanna Penn's long-running blog and podcast on fiction writing craft and the realities of self-publishing and the…
The Curious Case of MD5
A curious investigation into why the International Criminal Court hashes digital evidence with MD5, and whether that old…
The Curious Case Of Platypus Milk
A short science essay on why platypuses sweat milk, covering the odd biology of monotremes and why scientists find them…
The Curious Case of the Raspberry Pi in the Network Closet
A detective story about finding a rogue Raspberry Pi hidden in an office network, tracing it with help from Reddit and c…
The Curse of the Roeblings?
A Museum of the City of New York article on the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the misfortunes of engineers Joh…
The Daily Existentialist
A site offering profiles, reading lists, and plain-language essays that introduce existentialist philosophers and their…
The Dark Night of Mathematics
A reflective essay asking what mathematicians are really doing, tracing the unease behind foundations, proof and meaning…
The Dark Roof Lobby That May Be Heating Your City
An investigation into how dark roofing manufacturers quietly lobby against reflective roof rules that could cut cities'…
The Darker Side of Being a Doctor
A surgeon's candid personal essay on burnout, grief and the emotional toll of medicine that training rarely prepares doc…
The Data Structures of Roads
A programming essay on how procedural road networks are represented in code, covering the data structures that make gene…
The Death of the Postmodern Novel
A literary essay arguing that the postmodern novel has run its course and following the rise of autofiction, the blend o…
The Decision Lab
A behavioral science think tank publishing accessible reference articles explaining cognitive biases and their real-worl…
The Decision Lab's BE Hub
A central hub for behavioral economics research, guides, and case studies explaining how psychology shapes financial and…
The Demoscene as UNESCO Heritage in Sweden
An account of how Sweden recognized the demoscene, the subculture of computer art and music, as national UNESCO cultural…
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys's seventeenth-century diary, published online day by day exactly as he wrote it, with annotations and reade…
The Director of Toy Story Also Drew the BSD Daemon
A short bit of computing trivia revealing that John Lasseter, director of Toy Story, drew the BSD daemon mascot, with th…
The Dirt
The official blog of the American Society of Landscape Architects, covering park design, green infrastructure, and how l…
The Disappearance of the Crow's Nest
A Titanic researcher digs into the fate of the liner's crow's nest, piecing together survivor testimony and wreck eviden…
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The distractions of social media, 1673 style
Historian Tom Standage shows how 17th century English coffeehouses were accused of wasting time and ruining productivity…
The Double Helix Staircase at Chambord
A look at the double helix staircase at the heart of the Chateau de Chambord, two intertwined flights attributed to Leon…
The Doves Type
The story of the Doves Press typeface, which its co-founder threw into the River Thames to keep from his partner, and ho…
The Drift
A magazine of essays and criticism on politics, culture, and literature written by a younger generation of writers with…
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Autocorrelation
A statistics-driven argument that the famous Dunning-Kruger chart may be a mathematical artifact, with simulations showi…
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