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The Lost Art of Lacing Cable
A look at the vanished craft of hand-lacing cable bundles in old broadcast studios, from an abandoned NBC room to why th…
The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
An essay asking where the amateur researchers have gone, and how curiosity-driven study as a hobby can be revived, with…
The Man in Seat 61 | The train travel guide
A detailed guide to traveling by train and ferry across the UK, Europe, and the world without flying.
The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders
A profile of Edsger Dijkstra, the influential and often controversial computer scientist, tracing his ideas, personality…
The man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster
The story of Dr. Jack ReVelle, who disarmed two hydrogen bombs that fell near Goldsboro in 1961, and of the remarkable l…
The Manhoff Archive
A long-hidden collection of color photographs from Stalin's Soviet Union, taken by an American diplomat's family, brings…
The Many Faces of Mean Field Theory
A physics essay exploring how mean field theory shows up across statistical mechanics and related fields, one idea viewe…
The Marginalian - Marginalia on our search for meaning
Maria Popova's long-running essay archive exploring literature, art, science, and philosophy.
The Missing Missing Reasons
An influential essay on family estrangement that explores why parents often fail to see the reasons their adult children…
The Most Counterintuitive Facts in Math, CS and Physics
A long list of the most surprising true facts from mathematics, computer science and physics, each a sentence or two wit…
The Most Honored Photograph
Roger Cicala tells the story of an unremarkable-looking WWII reconnaissance photo taken by a nine-man crew that may be t…
The Neuroscience of Philosophical Hypotheticals
An essay on how our brains respond to moral thought experiments like the trolley problem, linking late-night philosophic…
The New Atlantis
A journal of essays examining how technology, science, and progress reshape society, ethics, and what it means to live w…
The Next Buddha May Be a Sangha
Thich Nhat Hanh's closing talk at a Day of Mindfulness, on why the next Buddha may take the form of a community, from th…
The Niepce Heliograph
The Harry Ransom Center's page on the Niepce heliograph, the earliest surviving camera photograph, a view from a window…
The Noise of Our Names
A review of Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies by Toril Moi, Rita Felski and Amanda Anderson, on the difficu…
The Open Library Explorer
A write-up of the Open Library Explorer, a visual way to browse the Internet Archive's book collection by shelf and subj…
The Original Affluent Society
A 1979 Fifth Estate piece on hunter-gatherer societies and Marshall Sahlins's argument that early peoples enjoyed leisur…
The past was not that cute
A thoughtful essay arguing that pretty vintage aesthetics are not history, and that romanticizing the past erases how ha…
The Point
A magazine of philosophical and cultural essays asking what living an examined life means today, mixing criticism, memoi…
The Prindle Institute for Ethics
A center publishing accessible essays that apply ethical reasoning to current events, pop culture, and everyday dilemmas…
The Problem with Maps
An illustrated interactive essay on why flat maps distort the round Earth, letting you explore different map projections…
The Prophet of Parking
An affectionate eulogy for economist Donald Shoup, whose research on free parking reshaped how cities think about curb s…
The Pure Food and Drugs Act
The US House history office recounts how muckraking journalists and poison squads pushed Congress to pass the Pure Food…
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