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How Do I Get into the Game Industry
Garry Newman, creator of Garry's Mod and Rust, answers a parent's question about breaking into game development with fra…
How Do MRI Headphones Work?
A curious patient wonders how audio can reach your ears inside an MRI scanner full of huge magnets, and works out the cl…
How Doctors Die
Ken Murray's widely shared essay on why physicians often choose less aggressive end-of-life care than their patients, an…
How Does an FPGA Work?
A clear illustrated SparkFun tutorial explaining what FPGAs are, how lookup tables and logic blocks become hardware, and…
How Fast the Days Are Getting Longer
An astronomy explainer on how many minutes of daylight we gain each day through the year, why it peaks at the equinox, a…
How Grasshoppers Jump
A clear illustrated explanation of how grasshoppers jump, covering the catapult mechanics of the legs and the neurobiolo…
How HTTPS Works
A comic that follows Certificat as she explains why HTTPS matters and how certificates and encryption work together, in…
How I Take Math Lecture Notes with LaTeX and Vim
A famous write-up on typing live mathematics lecture notes in LaTeX using Vim snippets, with animated demos of how fast…
How I'm (re)learning math as an adult
A reflective post on passing 100 days of daily math practice, covering the resources, routines and mindset that helped o…
How Kerala Got Rich
An Aeon essay asking how Kerala went from one of India's poorest states fifty years ago to one of its richest, and what…
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How Long Is the Average Dissertation?
A grad student scrapes university records to chart how long dissertations run in each academic field, from compact math…
How Lossless Data Compression Works
A Quanta Magazine story on how one student's wish to skip a final exam led to Huffman coding, the algorithm that shrinks…
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How My Online Gaming Addiction Saved My Ph.D.
A researcher recounts how obsessing over Cookie Clicker taught him lessons about interaction design and led to a doctora…
How Passive Radar Works
An illustrated explainer of passive radar, which detects aircraft by listening to reflections of existing FM and TV broa…
How Samba Was Written
Andrew Tridgell's famous 2003 account of reverse engineering a proprietary network protocol, told with a witty analogy a…
How Slide Rules Work
An illustrated explanation of how the logarithmic scales on a slide rule turn multiplication into addition, with diagram…
How to ask for help from people who don't know you
A practical essay on writing cold messages that get answers from busy strangers, covering how to be specific, respect th…
How to Become a Computer Science Engineer at MIT for Free
A curriculum of about 40 free university courses arranged over four academic years, giving a self-taught route through a…
How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly
A practical essay on outline speedrunning: recursively outline a minimum version, rush through filling it in, then polis…
How to Deconstruct Almost Anything
Chip Morningstar's classic, very funny essay about a software engineer wandering into an academic conference on postmode…
How to Do Things If You're Not That Smart
A candid, encouraging essay for people who want to do important work but doubt their talent, with practical habits like…
How to Draw Dotted Lines on Chalkboards, MIT Style
A short, charming MIT admissions blog post teaching the hand trick of flicking chalk to draw perfect dotted lines on a b…
How to Draw Ideas
An illustrated essay on the four roles drawing can play in a creative process and how sketching helps you find, test and…
How to Get Better at Guitar
A practical essay on a simple practice method from guitar teacher Justin Sandercoe that the author says changed his play…
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