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Let's Code a TCP/IP Stack, 5: TCP Retransmission
A hands-on tutorial in a series building a TCP/IP stack from scratch, this installment covering how TCP retransmission d…
Levy Economics Institute
An independent research institute publishing working papers on monetary economics, financial fragility, and employment p…
Lewis and Clark marked their trail with laxatives
A quirky Oregon history story about how the Lewis and Clark expedition's strongest medicine left a lasting, very literal…
Liberty Street Economics
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's blog, publishing readable analysis of banking, inflation, and financial market re…
Librarians Are Dangerous
A short, warm public service announcement about why librarians are secretly the most powerful people in town, written in…
Life Is Not a Simulation but a Thought Experiment
An essay arguing that a computer simulation is not needed to explain our existence, and that logic alone is sufficient,…
Lightspeed Magazine
A monthly online magazine publishing free science fiction and fantasy short stories alongside author interviews and nonf…
Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Theories
An outline of the many theories surrounding Lincoln's assassination, including one-page summaries, claims that Lincoln e…
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Linear Algebra: What Matrices Actually Are
A plain-language explainer revealing what matrices really are: linear transformations of space, which finally makes the…
Linnaeus and Race
An essay from the Linnean Society examining how Carl Linnaeus classified humans into varieties, what he actually wrote,…
Linux Applications Performance: Introduction
The opening of a series that builds web servers from iterative to forking to threaded designs, using benchmarks to teach…
Liutaio Mottola Lutherie Information Website
A deep technical reference of formulae, data tables, and articles for guitar makers, violin makers, and other stringed-i…
Live Science
A popular science news outlet covering new discoveries in biology, geology, space, and medicine with accessible daily re…
LLMs on Turing Machine Architectures Cannot Be Conscious
An essay arguing that large language models running on Turing machine architectures cannot be conscious, drawing on phil…
Local-first software
A landmark Ink & Switch essay on collaborative software that keeps you in control of your data, weighing seven ideals ag…
Locus
The trade magazine of the science fiction and fantasy field, tracking awards, new releases, and news for readers deeply…
Logical Fallacies - Purdue OWL
Purdue's Online Writing Lab explains the classic logical fallacies, from slippery slope and ad hominem to post hoc and s…
London Reconnections
A deeply researched blog on London's transport infrastructure, unpacking the politics and engineering behind tube extens…
Louis-Joseph Marchand: Napoleon's Valet and Friend
The story of Louis-Joseph Marchand, Napoleon's valet in exile on St Helena, who nursed the emperor to his death, kept hi…
Machines of Loving Grace
A moving personal essay on birth, the loss of a child and how technological interventions shape the experience of pregna…
Making and Knowing: Training a Dog
A page from the digital edition of a sixteenth-century French artisan manuscript, with translation, notes and recipes on…
Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
A profile of the 18th-century Duchess of Portland, whose obsession with shells, plants and curiosities made her one of t…
Mary Shelley, Horror's Greatest Mother
An essay marking 200 years since the birth of Frankenstein, tracing how Mary Shelley's novel shaped Gothic fiction and m…
Math Breakdown: Anime Homing Missiles
A visual tutorial on recreating anime-style swarming missile trails using cubic Bezier curves, Perlin noise and minimal…
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