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The Kitchn - Inspiring Cooks, Nourishing Homes
Daily food magazine with recipes, kitchen tips, product reviews, and home-cooking ideas for everyday meals.
The Klezmershack
A long-running archive covering klezmer music, its revival, bands, festivals, and the Jewish musical tradition behind it…
The Kryptos Project: Ed Scheidt
Profile of Ed Scheidt, the CIA cryptographer who helped Jim Sanborn design the Kryptos sculpture cipher, on a fan resear…
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Art & Design
The language of stamps
An illustrated essay on the forgotten Victorian and Edwardian code in which the angle and position of a postage stamp on…
The Lascaux Cave Paintings
An illustrated guide to the Lascaux cave in southwestern France, walking through its Palaeolithic paintings of horses, a…
The Last Message Sent on AIM
A nostalgic essay about AOL Instant Messenger, away messages and teenage friendships, and what it felt like when the cha…
The Last of the Calabrian Greeks
John Kazaklis visits the Aspromonte villages of Calabria where a few elderly speakers still keep alive Griko, an ancient…
The Last Post
Blogger Derek K. Miller's final post, published by his family after his death from cancer, in which he reflects calmly a…
The Last Question
Isaac Asimov's classic 1956 short story, read in the browser, about humanity repeatedly asking a computer whether entrop…
The Last Quiet Thing
A beautifully designed scroll essay built around a twelve-dollar Casio watch, asking what happened when our possessions…
The Last Recording Artist
Jaime Brooks' long essay on ghostwriters, vocaloids, virtual idols and AI voices, tracing how pop music has quietly sepa…
The Last Swinger
Tom Junod's classic 1996 profile of an aging Tony Curtis holding court at Spago, a funny, sad portrait of old Hollywood…
The last time my family was replaced by technology
A personal essay about the author's great-great-grandfather, a village farrier in rural France, and what the arrival of…
The Laws of Simplicity
John Maeda's ten laws of simplicity, from Reduce and Organize to The One, each distilled into a single line with a small…
The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat
Chip Morningstar and Randall Farmer's classic 1990 paper on building Habitat, an early online virtual world, and what it…
The Library Level: Archives in Videogames
The National Library of Scotland looks at how libraries and archives appear in video games, from puzzle rooms and perilo…
The Library of Babel and Infinite Monkeys
A Harvard reading-course exhibit tying Borges's Library of Babel to the infinite monkey theorem, with links to working v…
The Life and Times of Evelyn Lambart
The National Film Board of Canada profiles Evelyn Lambart, the country's first woman animator and Norman McLaren's partn…
The Life and Work of Tom Seidmann-Freud
The Freud Museum on Sigmund Freud's niece Tom Seidmann-Freud, an inventive children's book illustrator of Weimar Berlin…
The Life of a Cherry Drying Pilot
A helicopter pilot explains the strange seasonal job of hovering low over cherry orchards after rain, using rotor wash t…
The Limits of Computational Photography
An engineer tries to photograph fine laser etching on optical equipment and discovers how smartphone image processing in…
The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003
The story of a sneaky two-line change slipped into the Linux kernel source in 2003, how it was caught, and what it says…
The Lion of St. Mark's Square in Venice Is Chinese
Isotopic analysis of the bronze Lion of St. Mark's in Venice traces its metal to China, upending a long-held assumption…
The Load-Bearing Vocabulary of Claude
An essay on the words that do the heavy lifting in Claude's writing, looking at which vocabulary choices shape the recog…
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