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Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell
Thomas Jefferson's 1807 letter on how a newspaper should be run, famously lamenting that nothing can now be believed whi…
Thought as a Technology
Michael Nielsen's essay on how interfaces change the way we think, with interactive examples and a meditation on compute…
Thought Experiments
A blog walking through famous thought experiments across philosophy, physics, and history, from quantum suicide to ident…
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
Virginia Woolf's 1940 essay written during German bombing raids on England, reflecting on fear, war and how to think pea…
Three Kids, a Dead Raccoon, and My Crockpot
A bioarchaeologist's photo-essay about turning a roadkill raccoon into a clean skeleton in a crockpot with three curious…
Tinyrenderer
A hands-on tutorial that builds a software 3D renderer from scratch in about 500 lines of C++, showing how lines, triang…
Tips for Mathematical Handwriting
A practical guide to writing math legibly by hand, covering letterforms that get confused such as 1, l, 7, z, and 2 and…
To Force the Stumble into Freedom
An essay arguing that Schopenhauer's idea of beauty suspending the Will is undermined by social media, which industriali…
Today I Found Out
A trivia and curiosity blog dedicated to surprising, well-researched facts about history, science, and everyday things p…
Top 10 Martin Gardner Physics Stumpers
A list of ten physics puzzles from Martin Gardner's writing, assembled for his centennial, each a brainteaser that rewar…
Top 10 Ways to Know the Earth is Not Flat
Ten simple observations you can make yourself, from ships vanishing hull-first over the horizon to lunar eclipses and ti…
Transformers from Scratch
A patient, jargon-light walkthrough of how transformer models work, building the idea from simple pieces up to attention…
Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
A short, kind essay by Oliver Burkeman on dropping the guilt of an ever-growing reading list and dipping into it as a fl…
Tricycle
A Buddhist magazine offering free teachings, meditation guidance, and essays that make Buddhist philosophy accessible to…
Try and
A Yale linguistics project page explaining the 'try and' construction (as in 'try and fix it'), how it differs from 'try…
Two Minutes of the Simpsons
A comedy writer dissects two minutes of The Simpsons joke by joke, counting the gags and explaining how each one works,…
U.S. Stock Market Returns: 1870s to Present
A data-rich reference page covering U.S. stock returns since 1871, with annual returns, odds of losing money, best and w…
UC Berkeley Labor Center
A research center publishing accessible studies and data on wages, unions, and working conditions in the American labor…
Uncanny Magazine
An award-winning speculative fiction magazine offering free online fiction, poetry, and essays exploring science fiction…
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Uncle Bobby's Wedding
Library director James LaRue's widely shared reply to a patron who challenged a children's picture book, a calm and thou…
Unexpected Things That Are People
An essay on the strange legal fact that rivers, ships, corporations and idols have all been treated as persons, explorin…
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Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery
A historian's wife recounts six years of rebuilding the linen armor worn by Alexander the Great, from studying vase pain…
Urban Dictionary
A crowdsourced dictionary of slang, internet jargon, and joke definitions that has documented the evolving vocabulary of…
US Historical Newspapers Online by State
A state-by-state guide to hundreds of digitized historical newspapers you can browse online, a handy starting point for…
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