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The past was not that cute
A thoughtful essay arguing that pretty vintage aesthetics are not history, and that romanticizing the past erases how ha…
The Perils of Audience Capture
Gurwinder's essay on audience capture, showing through vivid case studies how online creators slowly reshape their perso…
The Pictures Are Much Much Better on Television
A deep dive into the surprisingly tricky question of when Alan Partridge first appeared on television, a charming bit of…
The Pixar Theory
Jon Negroni's sprawling theory arguing that every Pixar movie, from Toy Story onward, happens in one shared universe, wi…
The Pleasant Places to Live
A data-driven map of the United States showing how many pleasantly mild, dry days each place gets per year, from sunny L…
The Plot of the Phantom
Scott Andrew announces that his text adventure The Plot of the Phantom is finally playable, a project he started as a ki…
The PMRC Filthy Fifteen
NNDB's list of the Filthy Fifteen, the songs the Parents Music Resource Center singled out in 1985 for sex, violence and…
The Poetry and Brief Life of a Foxconn Worker
Translations of poems by Xu Lizhi, a young Foxconn assembly-line worker in Shenzhen who died in 2014, with notes on his…
The Point
A magazine of philosophical and cultural essays asking what living an examined life means today, mixing criticism, memoi…
The Point of Whales
A short story by Richard Smyth, first published in The London Magazine, free to read in full on his site, about whales,…
The Prindle Institute for Ethics
A center publishing accessible essays that apply ethical reasoning to current events, pop culture, and everyday dilemmas…
The Problem with Maps
An illustrated interactive essay on why flat maps distort the round Earth, letting you explore different map projections…
The Prophet of Parking
An affectionate eulogy for economist Donald Shoup, whose research on free parking reshaped how cities think about curb s…
The Psychology of Waiting Lines
David Maister's classic essay on why waiting feels the way it does, with eight principles such as occupied time feeling…
The Pure Food and Drugs Act
The US House history office recounts how muckraking journalists and poison squads pushed Congress to pass the Pure Food…
The R. Bradley Lathe
The story of a working metal lathe improvised by a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp, with photos, construction details an…
The Radical Copyeditor's Style Guide for Writing About Transgender People
A clear, practical style guide from a genderqueer copyeditor on how to write about trans people with care, covering term…
The Radical Theology of Mr. Rogers
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg looks at the ideas behind Mister Rogers Neighborhood and argues that his gentle lessons on feelin…
The Real Lolita
Sarah Weinman's longread on the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner and how her story found its way into Nabokov'…
The Recovery Kit Version Two
A build write-up for a rugged, portable Raspberry Pi computer in a case, updated with a battery, an NVMe boot drive and…
The Rectangularness of Countries
Which country is the most rectangular? This playful analysis fits the best rectangle to every nation's outline and ranks…
The Red Hand Files - Really Old Rockstar
Nick Cave answers a fan who asks what the worst thing is about having become a really old rockstar, in one of his candid…
The Remarkable Number 1/89
A short, surprising explanation of why the decimal expansion of 1/89 hides the Fibonacci sequence, worked out with simpl…
The Remarkable Story of Ona Judge
An essay from the White House Historical Association on Ona Judge, who was born into slavery at Mount Vernon, served the…
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