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The Daily Existentialist
A site offering profiles, reading lists, and plain-language essays that introduce existentialist philosophers and their…
The Dark Night of Mathematics
A reflective essay asking what mathematicians are really doing, tracing the unease behind foundations, proof and meaning…
The Death of the Postmodern Novel
A literary essay arguing that the postmodern novel has run its course and following the rise of autofiction, the blend o…
The Decision Lab
A behavioral science think tank publishing accessible reference articles explaining cognitive biases and their real-worl…
The Decision Lab's BE Hub
A central hub for behavioral economics research, guides, and case studies explaining how psychology shapes financial and…
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys's seventeenth-century diary, published online day by day exactly as he wrote it, with annotations and reade…
The Disappearance of the Crow's Nest
A Titanic researcher digs into the fate of the liner's crow's nest, piecing together survivor testimony and wreck eviden…
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The distractions of social media, 1673 style
Historian Tom Standage shows how 17th century English coffeehouses were accused of wasting time and ruining productivity…
The Doves Type
The story of the Doves Press typeface, which its co-founder threw into the River Thames to keep from his partner, and ho…
The Drift
A magazine of essays and criticism on politics, culture, and literature written by a younger generation of writers with…
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Autocorrelation
A statistics-driven argument that the famous Dunning-Kruger chart may be a mathematical artifact, with simulations showi…
The Economics Network
A UK higher-education resource hub offering free teaching materials, data exercises, and case studies for learning and t…
The Existential Primer
A long-running introduction to existentialism and related continental philosophies, tracing the connections between key…
The Famous Titanic Band
The story of the eight musicians who played aboard the Titanic, who they were, what songs they may have played as the sh…
The Fantastic Voyage of Voyager
A history piece on how the little Voyager spacecraft kept going long after Americans lost interest in space, touring the…
The Forgotten War on Beepers
A look back at the moral panic over pagers in the 1980s and 90s, when parents, schools and lawmakers tried to ban beeper…
The Fruits of the Contemplative Life (DN 2)
A Pali Canon discourse in which a king asks the Buddha what visible benefits come from a monk's life, in a clear English…
The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967
A 20-minute history of how Tombow and other Japanese makers raced to build the world's best pencils from 1952 to 1967, w…
The Golden Ass of Apuleius
A richly illustrated online edition of Apuleius's ancient Roman novel about a man turned into a donkey, with graphics wo…
The Good Soldier Svejk
A Library of Congress post introducing Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk, the most famous Czech novel, with its hi…
The GPT-3 Architecture, on a Napkin
A hand-drawn, step-by-step diagram tour of how GPT-3 turns words into predictions, covering embeddings, attention and la…
The Gradient and What It Means (Pt. 2)
An essay on why some oral traditions preserve knowledge with stunning accuracy while others are no better than guessing,…
The Great Filter - Are We Almost Past It?
Robin Hanson's 1998 essay that coined the Great Filter, arguing that the silent, empty sky implies some brutal hurdle li…
The Guest House
Rumi's short poem The Guest House, in Coleman Barks's translation, which treats every emotion as a visitor to be welcome…
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