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Investopedia - Sharper Insight, Better Investing
Financial education site with definitions, tutorials, and articles explaining investing, markets, and personal finance c…
Wait But Why
A blog of long-form illustrated essays by Tim Urban exploring science, technology, and the human condition.
Atlas Obscura - The Definitive Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Travel and culture site cataloging the world's unusual, obscure, and hidden places and experiences.
DEV Community
A blogging platform and community where software developers publish articles, share knowledge, and discuss programming t…
Farnam Street
Shane Parrish's blog on mental models, decision-making, and learning from the best of what others have figured out.
Mental Floss - Facts, Trivia, and Curiosities
Entertainment and education site sharing trivia, history, language, and interesting facts to satisfy curiosity.
Nature - International Journal of Science
Leading peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original research and news across the natural sciences.
NerdWallet: Finance Smarter
Personal finance site with guides, tools and comparisons for credit cards, loans, banking, mortgages and investing.
Reality has a surprising amount of detail
An essay on why the world is far more detailed than we assume, and what that means for learning.
Science and Math News | Quanta Magazine
An editorially independent publication covering developments in physics, mathematics, biology, and computer science with…
Serious Eats: The Destination for Delicious
A food site known for science-backed recipes, cooking techniques, and rigorously tested kitchen guides.
Smithsonian Magazine: Explore History, Science, Arts & Culture
Digital publication from the Smithsonian covering history, science, innovation, arts, culture, and travel.
"Rumble" Riles Censors 1958-1959
A richly illustrated history of Link Wray's instrumental Rumble, the 1958 guitar track banned by radio stations for supp…
10 > 64, in QR Codes
A short, surprising explainer on why storing binary data as decimal digits beats base64 inside a QR code, thanks to the…
100 Ways To Live Better
A hundred bite-sized pieces of life advice crowdsourced and sharpened from a viral thread, covering habits, money, relat…
100 Years to Solve an Integral
The surprising history of the Mercator map and the integral of sec(x), a calculus staple that stumped mathematicians for…
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
A tour of twelve ancient Greek words like eudaimonia and arete, explaining what each meant and why modern life could use…
12 Months of Mandarin
A learner documents twelve months of studying Mandarin Chinese, with hours logged, methods tried and an honest look at w…
13 Ghost Towns in Greenland
A tour of 13 abandoned settlements in Greenland, from mining towns to old trading posts, explaining why each was left be…
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1922: Why I Quit Being So Accommodating
A complete transcription of an oddly modern 1922 American Magazine essay in which an anonymous writer explains why he st…
20 Rules of Knowledge Formulation
Dr Piotr Wozniak's widely cited guide on how to write effective flashcards, covering simplicity, context and redundancy…
250 Things an Architect Should Know
Michael Sorkin's famous list of 250 things an architect should know, from the smell of rain to the weight of a body, pre…
29-year-old Conway conjecture settled
A math blog post explaining how two Finnish researchers found a finite Game of Life pattern that can only arise from its…
3:AM Magazine
A long-running online magazine mixing philosophy interviews, literary criticism, and cultural essays aimed at an intelle…
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