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All About Earth's Gravity
A Physics Forums Insights article explaining Earth's surface gravity of about 9.8 meters per second squared and how the…
All Clocks Are 30 Seconds Late
A playful and surprisingly rigorous argument that every clock you see runs about 30 seconds behind, built from how we sa…
All of Physics in 9 Lines
A bold one-page table that condenses all known physics, from relativity to quantum theory, into nine short lines, part o…
All of the 8,331 License Plates in America
A visual catalogue of every license plate design the US states offer, from universities and sports teams to professions…
All This and World War II
An essay by film critic Keith Phipps on All This and World War II, a bizarre 1976 documentary that set an all-star lineu…
All3DP
A 3D printing news and guide site publishing beginner tutorials, printer comparisons, and curated lists of free models w…
Allen Ginsberg's Typewriter
Three poems by Jim Bennett in the literary magazine Empty Mirror, opening with the tale of buying Allen Ginsberg's porta…
AllSides - Balanced News and Media Bias Ratings
Aggregator that presents news from left, center, and right sources side by side and rates the media bias of each outlet.
Allusionist 100: The Hundredth
The transcript of the language podcast's 100th episode, a parade of favourite word facts and etymologies gathered over t…
AlphaZero: Shedding New Light on Chess, Shogi, and Go
Google DeepMind's account of how AlphaZero taught itself chess, shogi, and Go from scratch and then beat the strongest p…
Alpinist
A literary mountaineering magazine known for long-form writing on first ascents, alpine history, and the culture of clim…
Aluminum Foil
A wandering notebook essay on kitchen aluminum foil as a remarkable material, exploring its tiny thickness, odd properti…
Always Invite Anna
A short personal essay about the friends who always say no to invitations and why you should keep asking anyway, with a…
Always Look Down in London
A photo-led tour of London's pavement oddities, from old coal-hole covers to tiny markers and hidden inscriptions you ca…
Amazing Christmas Movies You Have Never Seen
A personal blog list of under-the-radar holiday films, with the writer's enthusiastic notes on why each odd or overlooke…
Ambientblog
A Dutch music blog reviewing ambient releases and hosting long-form drone listening sessions and podcast mixes since the…
Ambrosia for Heads
A hip hop culture blog covering classic and current rap with essays, rare footage, and features on the genre's history.
American Rivers
A river conservation nonprofit tracking dam removals, water policy, and the ecological health of waterways across the Un…
Amiga Juggler Animation
The story of the 1986 Amiga Juggler ray-traced animation, with the history and technique behind a famous early computer-…
An Accidental Statistician
George E.P. Box tells how he stumbled into statistics while working on poison gas experiments in wartime Britain, a char…
An App to Encourage My Kids to Invest
A write-up of a single HTML file app built to teach children about saving and investing, with the story of why and a lin…
An Honest Living
A reflective personal essay by a former tenured professor about starting over as a school bus driver, and what early rou…
An Interview with Philip K. Dick (1977)
A full transcript of a 1977 interview with Philip K. Dick at a French science fiction festival, where he talks about his…
An Intro to Modern OpenGL: The Graphics Pipeline
The first chapter of an introduction to modern OpenGL, explaining how the graphics pipeline turns vertices into pixels b…
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