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The Muppet Show: 40 Years Later - Debbie Harry
A funny, detailed look back at the Muppet Show episode starring Debbie Harry, weighing whether the Muppets are punk, fro…
The Nature Conservancy
A global conservation nonprofit sharing land-protection stories, species profiles, and science on restoring forests, riv…
The NES Composite Palette Project
An obsessive project to recreate authentic NES colors from real hardware captures, with downloadable palettes and notes…
The Neural Network Zoo
A colorful illustrated cheat sheet of dozens of neural network architectures, from perceptrons to GANs, each drawn as a…
The Neuroscience of Philosophical Hypotheticals
An essay on how our brains respond to moral thought experiments like the trolley problem, linking late-night philosophic…
The Never-Ending War Over Rent Control
An analysis of why rent control keeps returning to the political agenda, weighing economists' objections against moderat…
The New Atlantis
A journal of essays examining how technology, science, and progress reshape society, ethics, and what it means to live w…
The New Swiss Passport Series
How the Swiss studio RETINAA designed Switzerland's 2022 passport, with Alpine landscapes, hidden UV artwork and securit…
The Next Buddha May Be a Sangha
Thich Nhat Hanh's closing talk at a Day of Mindfulness, on why the next Buddha may take the form of a community, from th…
The Niepce Heliograph
The Harry Ransom Center's page on the Niepce heliograph, the earliest surviving camera photograph, a view from a window…
The Nintendo Switch Switch
A playful hack that turns a Nintendo Switch console into a real Ethernet network switch, explaining the pun-driven idea…
The No Twinkie Database
Game designer Ernest Adams's long catalogue of classic video game design blunders, from unskippable cutscenes to stupid…
The Noise of Our Names
A review of Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies by Toril Moi, Rita Felski and Amanda Anderson, on the difficu…
The Octo-Bouncer
A maker's write-up of a hypnotic machine that keeps a steel ball bouncing on a tilting plate using a camera and eight mo…
The Oldest Representations of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
A rock art study of Saharan cave paintings from 9000-7000 years ago, including the Tassili mushroom figures, argued to b…
The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Satirical news organization publishing fictional articles and headlines that parody mainstream journalism.
The Online Trombone Journal
A resource for trombonists with articles, recordings, and reviews covering technique, repertoire, and the instrument's h…
The Open Library Explorer
A write-up of the Open Library Explorer, a visual way to browse the Internet Archive's book collection by shelf and subj…
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Science
The Orbit of Planet Nine
The astronomers who proposed Planet Nine explain how they narrowed down its likely orbit and where in the sky it could b…
The Original Affluent Society
A 1979 Fifth Estate piece on hunter-gatherer societies and Marshall Sahlins's argument that early peoples enjoyed leisur…
The Other Epidemic
A long first-person essay about the author's struggle to get off benzodiazepines, mixing memoir, medical history and a f…
The Other Sean Byrne Doesn't Exist
An investigation into how a fictitious employee of an Irish aircraft-parts company ended up on a US government restricte…
The Overengineered Solution to My Pigeon Problem
A maker builds a wifi-connected water gun to chase pigeons off his balcony, controlled over the internet by a Python scr…
The Page With No Code
A web puzzle about a page whose View Source shows nothing at all yet still has content, with the author unpacking the tr…
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