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ADSL works over wet string
A delightfully nerdy post confirming that broadband really can run over a piece of wet string, with the details of how a…
Adventures in Population Growth
A post of animated GIFs showing how countries' populations grow and age over time, making demographic change easy to see…
Advice That Actually Worked For Me
A thoughtful numbered list of practical life and work advice that held up in practice, covering energy, learning, readin…
AEI Economics
A Washington think tank's economics section publishing market-oriented research and commentary on taxes, regulation, and…
Aeon | a world of ideas
Digital magazine publishing essays and ideas on philosophy, science, society, and culture.
Afropop Worldwide
A public radio and journalism project exploring African and Afro-diaspora music through articles, interviews, and featur…
After Water
An illustrated story on Longreads about California and what happens to the land, the farms and the people when the water…
Against Access
John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind poet, argues against the way access is usually handed to disabled people, in a sharp and fun…
Agloe, New York
The story of Agloe, a fictional town invented by mapmakers as a copyright trap that briefly became real when someone ope…
Ahab's Leg Dilemma
An illustrated essay on how illustrators and filmmakers have tried to picture Captain Ahab's ivory whalebone leg from Mo…
AI as Simulacra
An essay that reads generative AI through Baudrillard's simulacra and hyperreality to explain why AI-made content feels…
AI Is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers
An essay arguing that leaning on AI coding assistants erodes core skills, told through the author's panic when Cursor we…
AI Safety for Fleshy Humans
A friendly illustrated tour of AI and AI safety by Nicky Case and Hack Club, explaining the core ideas, problems and pos…
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
A famous list of witty engineering maxims from aerospace professor David Akin, such as 'Engineering is done with numbers…
Al Jazeera - Breaking News, World News and Video
Global news organization providing breaking news, in-depth reporting, and multimedia on international events and current…
Al Lowe - Don't Die
A long candid interview with Al Lowe, creator of Leisure Suit Larry, recalling his years at Sierra On-Line in the 80s an…
Alain Bombard's Castaway Cuisine
A food-history essay on Alain Bombard, who drifted across the Atlantic in 1952 living on raw fish, plankton and seawater…
Algorave: The Live Coding Movement
A feature on algorave, the movement where artists write code live to generate dance music and visuals, and how laptops b…
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Algorithmic Symphonies from One Line of Code
The essay that launched bytebeat: viznut explains how tiny one-line C programs can generate surprisingly complex chiptun…
Alice A. Ball Is Hidden in History
The story of Alice Ball, the young University of Hawaii chemist who developed the first effective treatment for leprosy…
Alien Assumptions
A short essay arguing that our ideas about aliens smuggle in human assumptions about intelligence, communication and mot…
Alive Internet Theory
An essay by internet artist Spencer Chang arguing that bots will never win and celebrating tiny online spaces where peop…
All About Automotive Lidar
A comprehensive plain-English guide to automotive lidar: what it measures, how it gets distance, the main scanner design…
All About Boro
The history of boro, the patched and endlessly mended indigo textiles of rural Japan, how poverty created them and how t…
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