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The Time I Built an ROV to Solve Missing Person Cases
A hobbyist engineer builds an underwater remote-operated vehicle to search lakes for missing persons, with the design ch…
The tiniest yet real telescope I've built
A maker's account of building a pocket-sized Dobsonian telescope that truly works, with the design choices and tricks ne…
The Tragic Relationship of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
A Literary Ladies Guide essay tracing the troubled marriage of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, drawing on letters rev…
The Transport Politic
A blog analyzing transit expansion projects and policy debates in cities across North America, tracking new rail lines a…
The Treasures of Noh
A feature on a Kyoto woman who carves masks for Noh, one of Japan's oldest theatre forms, following her unusual path int…
The Tree in Our Backyard
Alexis Madrigal investigates the old tree in his Oakland backyard, digging into the people who tended it before him and…
The Trek
A thru-hiking community site publishing daily blogs, gear reviews, and trail updates from hikers currently out on long-d…
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The TRON Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT
A long read on TRON, Japan's ambitious 1980s open operating system project, and how politics, US trade pressure and bad…
The True Size of Africa
Kai Krause's famous map that fits the USA, China, India and much of Europe inside the outline of Africa, with an essay o…
The True Story Of Idaho
A deadpan essay arguing that the state of Idaho does not actually exist, laying out the case with mock-serious evidence,…
The Twentieth Century Society
A UK heritage charity campaigning to protect modernist and postwar buildings, publishing case files on threatened office…
The Tyranny of the Marginal User
A sharp, much-cited essay explaining why consumer software tends to get worse over time, and how chasing the marginal us…
The Ultimate Zero to B2 German Guide
A structured Zero to B2 German guide that lays out a 24-week study plan with methods and resources for learning the lang…
The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller
A literary-magazine essay arguing that Ferris Bueller's Day Off hides real weight about friendship, fear and growing up…
The Unexpected Poetry of PhD Acknowledgements
ANU researchers read hundreds of PhD theses and share what they found in the acknowledgements pages, from heartfelt than…
The Unique Art of Sign Painting in Los Angeles
A photo essay on the hand-painted signs of Los Angeles storefronts and the sign painters keeping the craft alive, from b…
The User Condition
Silvio Lorusso's online essay on computer agency and behavior, asking how users can evade automatisms inside software bu…
The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
A design look at LEGO's iconic interface panels, why their stickers, dials and switches teach interface basics, and what…
The Value of Not Getting to the Point
Ken Arneson's essay on why rambling, wandering writing and conversation can lead to better ideas than blunt efficiency,…
The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option
A detective-style blog post that digs into why HP shipped laptops with a strange FreeDOS option, with screenshots and th…
The Vinyl Factory
A magazine covering vinyl record culture, pressing craft, and music news for collectors and record store enthusiasts.
The Virtual Community
Howard Rheingold's 1993 book The Virtual Community, free to read online: a firsthand account of the WELL and early onlin…
The Vocal Effects of Daft Punk
A detailed breakdown of the vocoder, talk box, pitch and filter effects behind Daft Punk's robotic vocals, with song exa…
The Wada Test
Linda Button's essay that won the 2025 Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award in Bellingham Review, built around the st…
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