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The History and Significance of Totem Poles
An explainer on totem poles of Alaska Native and Northwest Coast peoples: how they are carved, the animal crests and sto…
The History Blog
A daily blog by an independent historian summarizing new archaeological discoveries, restored artifacts, and unusual his…
The History Guide
A collection of university-style lectures on European intellectual history and the origins of the twentieth century's ma…
The History of Ludlow
Historic UK tours Ludlow in Shropshire, the town Betjeman called the loveliest in England, from its Norman castle to its…
The History of Sauerkraut
A short food history of sauerkraut, explaining what it is, where fermented cabbage came from and how it spread, from the…
The History of UTF-8 as Told by Rob Pike
Rob Pike's first-hand email recounting how he and Ken Thompson designed UTF-8 on a diner placemat in one evening in 1992…
The Howl Obscenity Trial
A FoundSF history page on the 1957 San Francisco trial over Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, when Lawrence Ferlinghetti was c…
The Illustrated AlphaFold
A visual walkthrough of the AlphaFold3 architecture with diagrams and plain explanations of how the model predicts prote…
The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
A famous illustrated explanation of what a PhD actually is, showing how a doctorate pushes a tiny bump onto the boundary…
The Importance of Being Idle
An essay revisiting Paul Lafargue's classic case for laziness and what it still says about modern work, leisure and the…
The Infamous Coin Toss
A lay-audience explanation of ergodicity breaking through a simple coin-toss gamble where the average outcome and what h…
The Information Philosopher
A site exploring free will, determinism, and the physics of information through essays that connect philosophy of mind w…
The Internet Classics Archive
A free online library of classical Greek and Roman texts in English translation, including Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, a…
The Internet from Rocks
A long, friendly explainer that builds the whole stack from sand and transistors up through logic gates, CPUs, operating…
The Key of Hell: an Eighteenth-Century Sorcery Manual
Historian Benjamin Breen pores over the eerie hand-painted illustrations of an 18th-century sorcery manual and tries to…
The King Wen Permutation
A short mathematical exploration of how the two classical orderings of the 64 I Ching hexagrams relate as a permutation,…
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The language of stamps
An illustrated essay on the forgotten Victorian and Edwardian code in which the angle and position of a postage stamp on…
The Lascaux Cave Paintings
An illustrated guide to the Lascaux cave in southwestern France, walking through its Palaeolithic paintings of horses, a…
The Last of the Calabrian Greeks
John Kazaklis visits the Aspromonte villages of Calabria where a few elderly speakers still keep alive Griko, an ancient…
The last time my family was replaced by technology
A personal essay about the author's great-great-grandfather, a village farrier in rural France, and what the arrival of…
The Library Level: Archives in Videogames
The National Library of Scotland looks at how libraries and archives appear in video games, from puzzle rooms and perilo…
The Library of Babel and Infinite Monkeys
A Harvard reading-course exhibit tying Borges's Library of Babel to the infinite monkey theorem, with links to working v…
The Life and Work of Tom Seidmann-Freud
The Freud Museum on Sigmund Freud's niece Tom Seidmann-Freud, an inventive children's book illustrator of Weimar Berlin…
The Lion of St. Mark's Square in Venice Is Chinese
Isotopic analysis of the bronze Lion of St. Mark's in Venice traces its metal to China, upending a long-held assumption…
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