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Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge
A detective story about a 1991 Winter Olympics DOS game, digging into its hidden rules and tricks to find out how its ev…
UNCTAD Least Developed Countries Reports
Free annual reports and data from the United Nations trade body analyzing the economic challenges facing the world's lea…
Uncyclopedia
A satirical parody of Wikipedia written entirely as comedy, turning the encyclopedia format itself into a long-running a…
Understanding Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata
An illustrated deep dive into multiple neighborhood cellular automata, the GPU-friendly rule sets that grow organic, swi…
Understanding Perlin Noise
A step-by-step introduction to Perlin noise that explains gradients, interpolation, and octaves clearly enough to implem…
Unexpected Things That Are People
An essay on the strange legal fact that rivers, ships, corporations and idols have all been treated as persons, explorin…
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Lifestyle & Health
Unnecessariat
A powerful, much-cited essay comparing the American opioid epidemic to the AIDS years and describing the people an econo…
Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips
A darkly funny guide to surviving a fall from a crashing airliner, part of the Free Fall Research Page with its archive…
Unraveling character webs
A data story that maps which characters interact in famous novels and TV shows, drawing their relationships as webs and…
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Education
Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery
A historian's wife recounts six years of rebuilding the linen armor worn by Alexander the Great, from studying vase pain…
unselfing.social
A short manifesto against the culture of self-celebration, calling on readers to make and share creative work about some…
Untapped New York
A site uncovering hidden corners, abandoned infrastructure, and secret histories of New York City, from disused subway s…
Upcycle My Stuff
A DIY blog focused on upcycling inspiration and tutorials, aimed at both hobbyists and small businesses turning waste in…
Upcycle That
A dedicated upcycling site cataloguing thousands of creative reuse projects that turn everyday trash into furniture, dec…
UpcycleDZINE
A DIY blog with hundreds of upcycling ideas showing how to transform discarded furniture and materials into stylish new…
UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction
An illustrated explainer on India's UPI payment network, tracing how the seven parties behind a single tap-to-pay transa…
Urban Dictionary
A crowdsourced dictionary of slang, internet jargon, and joke definitions that has documented the evolving vocabulary of…
Urban Land Magazine
The Urban Land Institute's publication on real estate development and city building, covering housing, infrastructure, a…
Urban Omnibus
The Architectural League of New York's publication on how the city is designed and inhabited, with essays on housing, in…
US Historical Newspapers Online by State
A state-by-state guide to hundreds of digitized historical newspapers you can browse online, a handy starting point for…
US Indian Boarding School History
An overview of the US Indian boarding school system - its origins, the policies of forced assimilation, the numbers of c…
USA Political Election Logos 2008 - 1960
A visual roundup of US presidential campaign logos and bumper sticker designs from 1960 to 2008, showing how designers k…
Useless Hacker Movie Trivia
A lovingly compiled list of the passwords, passcodes and computer-security howlers that appear in hacker movies and sci-…
Using a List to Manage Executive Function
A thoughtful personal essay on a well-developed todo-list system for managing daily work when executive function is hard…
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