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Theremin World
A global community for theremin enthusiasts covering the instrument's history, builders, performers, and film appearance…
There's No Such Thing as a Tree
A delightful dive into convergent evolution, showing why biologists say trees are not a real group and how many times wo…
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
Richard Feynman's classic 1959 talk inviting physicists into a new field, a famous seed idea of nanotechnology, read in…
They Thought They Were Free
An excerpt from Milton Mayer's 1955 study of ordinary Germans under Nazism, including the famous passage about how gradu…
They're Made Out of Meat
Terry Bisson's classic two-page sci-fi dialogue in which alien explorers argue in disbelief that the thinking beings of…
Things That Aren't Doing the Thing
A short, punchy essay listing all the ways we feel productive without actually starting the work, from planning and list…
Things to Know If You Get Cancer
A candid, practical and surprisingly warm guide from someone who has been through a cancer diagnosis, with lessons on do…
Things Unexpectedly Named After People
A quick, fun list of brands, places and products with surprising namesakes, from PageRank and Taco Bell to Debian, perfe…
Things You're Allowed to Do
A much-shared list of small, liberating permissions most people forget they have, from asking dumb questions to quitting…
Thinking Is Power
A site by a science writer that teaches critical thinking and media literacy skills through clear articles and practical…
This I Believe, by Robert A. Heinlein
A short, warm credo by the science fiction author on trust in neighbors, ordinary decency and the obvious things people…
thisisversaillesmadame.blogspot.com
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This is Versailles: Trianon de Porcelaine
The story of Louis XIV's Trianon de Porcelaine, a blue-and-white tiled pleasure house built for Madame de Montespan and…
This Newsletter Does Not Exist
A curated list of more than 25 websites in the spirit of This Person Does Not Exist, each generating convincing things t…
Thomas Cochrane in Lowercase Bullet Points
A short, funny, fast-moving biography of Thomas Cochrane, the daring naval captain Napoleon called the Sea Wolf, told en…
Thomas Jefferson and Architecture
An Encyclopedia Virginia entry on Thomas Jefferson as architect, covering his Palladian influences, his drawings, Montic…
Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell
Thomas Jefferson's 1807 letter on how a newspaper should be run, famously lamenting that nothing can now be believed whi…
Thought as a Technology
Michael Nielsen's essay on how interfaces change the way we think, with interactive examples and a meditation on compute…
Thought Experiments
A blog walking through famous thought experiments across philosophy, physics, and history, from quantum suicide to ident…
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
Virginia Woolf's 1940 essay written during German bombing raids on England, reflecting on fear, war and how to think pea…
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Art & Design
Three Colours: Red
Science writer Philip Ball explores the colour red through art history and chemistry, from ancient pigments to painters,…
Three Kids, a Dead Raccoon, and My Crockpot
A bioarchaeologist's photo-essay about turning a roadkill raccoon into a clean skeleton in a crockpot with three curious…
Three Ways to Get Paid
A veteran financial journalist recalls what his father taught him about work and money, in a short and warm essay about…
Thrive in Obscurity
An encouraging essay on why creative mastery begins with years of silence and why you should keep publishing your work e…
Throwing Shade at the Cartographer Illuminati
A walkthrough of raytracing topographic maps in R to cast realistic shadows, showing how a few lines of code make terrai…
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