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What does lorem ipsum dolor mean?
An entry from the old comp.fonts Usenet FAQ explaining that the lorem ipsum filler text comes from a scrambled passage o…
What Editing Magazine Stories Taught Me About Writing
Journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis shares an incomplete list of hard-won writing lessons from years of editing magazine f…
What Happened to Movie Taglines?
A naming expert looks at why movie taglines used to be memorable and quotable and how they became wordy, redundant and b…
What happened to the Japanese PC platforms?
A deep dive into why Japan's own computers, such as the PC-98, X68000 and FM Towns, thrived in the 1980s and 90s and the…
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Entertainment
What Happened with LEGO
A charts-heavy analysis of LEGO sets over decades, asking whether bricks got pricier, pieces got smaller and kits got mo…
What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin
A Nautilus feature on a decade-old study in which clergy from many faiths took psilocybin, and what their spiritual expe…
What I Ate as an Unpaid Intern at Noma
A cook recounts the staff meals and daily food of an unpaid internship in the kitchen at Noma, with reflections on the e…
What I Think About When I Edit
A professional editor explains how she approaches editing emails, stories and documentation, with concrete questions to…
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Science
What If I Were 1% Charged?
A physicist works out, with back-of-envelope math, what would happen if your body carried a 1% imbalance of electric cha…
What I'm Not Going to Do
A science writer's list of the cliches she refuses to use when profiling a woman scientist, the essay that gave rise to…
What Is a Zero Refractive Index Material?
A physicist explains what happens to light in a material with refractive index zero, where waves stop oscillating in spa…
What is energy, actually?
Jean-Marc Jancovici explains in plain language what energy physically is, why it means transformation of the environment…
What Is Gridification?
A 50-year analysis of Billboard hits showing how studio tools gradually snapped human performances onto a perfect grid,…
What is HDR, anyway?
A clear, illustrated explainer from the Halide camera team on what HDR actually means, why photos and screens confuse pe…
What Is Heat?
A readable Northwestern educational page on what heat is and how spacecraft control it, part of a larger thermal systems…
What Is Spacetime, Really?
Stephen Wolfram marks 100 years of general relativity with an illustrated essay proposing that space and time emerge fro…
What Is the Demoscene?
An interview with Filipe Cruz about the demoscene, the obscure subculture of programmers and artists making real-time au…
What is the Hong Kong New Wave?
A beginner's guide to the Hong Kong New Wave, the 1979-1995 film movement of Tsui Hark, Ann Hui and Wong Kar-wai, coveri…
What Is the Nicest Thing a Stranger Has Ever Done for You?
A warm personal essay collecting small acts of kindness from strangers, a reminder that good things happen and a prompt…
What Is the Size of Yemen?
A fun investigation into a century-old geography misinformation, following one odd viewer comment back through old encyc…
What is the Uncanny?
An Oregon State guide-to-literary-terms explainer on the uncanny, Freud's 1919 idea of the familiar turned strange, with…
What I've learned about flow fields so far
A practical, illustrated guide to making generative art with flow fields, showing how noise functions and a little trigo…
What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years
The full text of a 1900 Ladies Home Journal piece predicting life in 2000, from mobile phones and color photography to v…
What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Form
A classic 1988 list of hilariously honest answers people wrote on government security clearance forms, preserved on the…
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