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A woman named Steve
A profile of Dame Stephanie Steve Shirley, the computing pioneer who built a multimillion-pound software company staffed…
A* Tricks for Videogame Path Finding
A visual walkthrough of how game characters find their way, from straight lines and Dijkstra to A-star, with diagrams an…
A.Word.A.Day
A long-running email and website tradition delivering one unusual English word each day with its definition, etymology,…
Access to Insight
A free archive of translated Theravada Buddhist texts and teachings, presented for study and practice without any cost o…
Accountability Sinks
Martin Sustrik's essay on how institutions are designed so that nobody can be held responsible, and why that makes burea…
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Ace of Aces: Why You Should Do Maths as a Game Designer
A game designer digs into the math behind Ace of Aces, the clever two-book dogfight game, and shows how counting probabi…
Adjectives: order - Cambridge Grammar
A clear reference lesson on the order English adjectives follow, with examples that explain why a lovely old wooden hous…
Adventures in Population Growth
A post of animated GIFs showing how countries' populations grow and age over time, making demographic change easy to see…
Advice That Actually Worked For Me
A thoughtful numbered list of practical life and work advice that held up in practice, covering energy, learning, readin…
Aeon | a world of ideas
Digital magazine publishing essays and ideas on philosophy, science, society, and culture.
Against Access
John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind poet, argues against the way access is usually handed to disabled people, in a sharp and fun…
Agloe, New York
The story of Agloe, a fictional town invented by mapmakers as a copyright trap that briefly became real when someone ope…
Ahab's Leg Dilemma
An illustrated essay on how illustrators and filmmakers have tried to picture Captain Ahab's ivory whalebone leg from Mo…
AI as Simulacra
An essay that reads generative AI through Baudrillard's simulacra and hyperreality to explain why AI-made content feels…
AI Safety for Fleshy Humans
A friendly illustrated tour of AI and AI safety by Nicky Case and Hack Club, explaining the core ideas, problems and pos…
Alice A. Ball Is Hidden in History
The story of Alice Ball, the young University of Hawaii chemist who developed the first effective treatment for leprosy…
All About Earth's Gravity
A Physics Forums Insights article explaining Earth's surface gravity of about 9.8 meters per second squared and how the…
All of Physics in 9 Lines
A bold one-page table that condenses all known physics, from relativity to quantum theory, into nine short lines, part o…
All3DP
A 3D printing news and guide site publishing beginner tutorials, printer comparisons, and curated lists of free models w…
Allusionist 100: The Hundredth
The transcript of the language podcast's 100th episode, a parade of favourite word facts and etymologies gathered over t…
An Accidental Statistician
George E.P. Box tells how he stumbled into statistics while working on poison gas experiments in wartime Britain, a char…
An App to Encourage My Kids to Invest
A write-up of a single HTML file app built to teach children about saving and investing, with the story of why and a lin…
An Honest Living
A reflective personal essay by a former tenured professor about starting over as a school bus driver, and what early rou…
An Interview with Philip K. Dick (1977)
A full transcript of a 1977 interview with Philip K. Dick at a French science fiction festival, where he talks about his…
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