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The History of Ludlow
Historic UK tours Ludlow in Shropshire, the town Betjeman called the loveliest in England, from its Norman castle to its…
The History of Microsoft Flight Simulator
A visual walkthrough of every Microsoft Flight Simulator release since 1982, with screenshots showing how graphics and f…
The History of Sauerkraut
A short food history of sauerkraut, explaining what it is, where fermented cabbage came from and how it spread, from the…
The History of UTF-8 as Told by Rob Pike
Rob Pike's first-hand email recounting how he and Ken Thompson designed UTF-8 on a diner placemat in one evening in 1992…
The Homelessness Experiment
A first-person account of living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle, covering the practicalities, loneliness, wildlife and…
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The hotel bathroom puzzle
Alec Nevala-Lee revisits a famous design puzzle from Henry Petroski about hotel bathrooms and uses it to explore why eve…
The Howl Obscenity Trial
A FoundSF history page on the 1957 San Francisco trial over Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, when Lawrence Ferlinghetti was c…
The Illustrated AlphaFold
A visual walkthrough of the AlphaFold3 architecture with diagrams and plain explanations of how the model predicts prote…
The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
A famous illustrated explanation of what a PhD actually is, showing how a doctorate pushes a tiny bump onto the boundary…
The Importance of Being Idle
An essay revisiting Paul Lafargue's classic case for laziness and what it still says about modern work, leisure and the…
The Infamous Coin Toss
A lay-audience explanation of ergodicity breaking through a simple coin-toss gamble where the average outcome and what h…
The Infinite Jukebox, 10 Years Later
Paul Lamere looks back on building the Infinite Jukebox, the Music Hack Day toy that loops a favorite song forever by ju…
The Influence of Chuck Berry on the Beatles
A Beatles scholar traces how Chuck Berry shaped the young Beatles, from the songs they covered to his lyrics, guitar lic…
The Information Philosopher
A site exploring free will, determinism, and the physics of information through essays that connect philosophy of mind w…
The Interface of Kai Krause's Software
A design-history essay on the famously strange, tactile interfaces of Kai Krause's Kai's Power Tools and Bryce, and why…
The Internet Classics Archive
A free online library of classical Greek and Roman texts in English translation, including Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, a…
The Internet from Rocks
A long, friendly explainer that builds the whole stack from sand and transistors up through logic gates, CPUs, operating…
The Internet Is Already Over
A literary, darkly funny essay by Sam Kriss on what the internet turned into, mixing memes, theology and cultural critic…
The Isolator
Hugo Gernsback's 1925 piece on The Isolator, an oxygen-fed helmet meant to block all noise and distraction, free to read…
The Joy of Folding Bikes
A personal and enthusiastic tour of life with a folding bike, covering commuting, trains, storage tricks and why the lit…
The Key of Hell: an Eighteenth-Century Sorcery Manual
Historian Benjamin Breen pores over the eerie hand-painted illustrations of an 18th-century sorcery manual and tries to…
The Kilopixel
The story of a ridiculous 1000-pixel wooden display built over six years, with the mechanics, mistakes and the quirk tha…
The King Wen Permutation
A short mathematical exploration of how the two classical orderings of the 64 I Ching hexagrams relate as a permutation,…
The Kitchen Bladesmith
A longform Craftsmanship Magazine profile of Bob Kramer, the master bladesmith whose obsessive pursuit of the perfect ki…
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