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US Indian Boarding School History
An overview of the US Indian boarding school system - its origins, the policies of forced assimilation, the numbers of c…
Using a List to Manage Executive Function
A thoughtful personal essay on a well-developed todo-list system for managing daily work when executive function is hard…
Using GPS in the Year 1565
A blog post that overlays a satellite-style track on a 1565 map to show how accurately old maps matched the real landsca…
Utilitarianism.net
An online introduction to utilitarian ethics written by academic philosophers, covering its history, variants, and stron…
Varieties of Dualism, Part Four: I am the master of my body
A philosophy essay on dualism arguing that believing the mind is separate from the body has physical and psychological c…
Verse Daily
A long-running site that posts one new poem every day sourced from recent poetry publications, functioning as a daily sa…
Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize
How a burned 2000-year-old Herculaneum scroll was virtually unrolled and read for the first time, and what the ancient t…
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Victorian Monkey Tennis?
A Victorian history blog shares a manager's notes of attraction ideas for Alexandra Palace around 1880 - including, appa…
Vikings tagged the great lion in Venice with runes
Researchers revisit the runic graffiti carved on a marble lion in Venice, evidence that Scandinavian Vikings served as M…
Violent Enough to Stand Still
An essay asking why human societies changed so little over 300,000 years, weighing violence, cooperation and social stru…
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau: Living Statue
An art-historical essay on Virginie Gautreau, the Parisian beauty painted by Sargent as Madame X, and how she made her o…
Visual Design Rules You Can Safely Follow
A short, practical checklist of visual design rules that reliably work, from spacing and alignment to contrast, each exp…
Visualizing All Books in ISBN-Space
A deep visual dive into mapping every book ever assigned an ISBN, with zoomable maps showing which titles libraries and…
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Visualizing Ocean Shipping
A historian plots thousands of 18th and 19th century ship logbook positions to map the old ocean trade routes, with stri…
Visualizing Risk
A scrollytelling article using a pension savings calculation and Monte Carlo simulation to show how risk and uncertainty…
VoxDev
A research-to-policy platform where development economists summarize their findings in short, readable articles aimed at…
War Is a Racket
The text of Major General Smedley Butler's famous 1933 speech, in which a twice-decorated Marine describes his career as…
Warsaw Rising 1944
A ten-chapter story about Warsaw, the city that stood up to totalitarian regimes and rose from the ashes, centered on th…
Was Queen Victoria the Victim of Coercive Control?
Novelist Daisy Goodwin rereads Queen Victoria's diaries to re-examine her marriage to Prince Albert, asking whether the…
Was the Internet Created to Survive a Nuclear Strike?
A myth-busting history of the early internet that untangles ARPANET, packet switching and Cold War claims about nuclear…
Waxwing
A free online literary magazine focused on international and translated writing, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfict…
We Made the Isospectral Drums
A maker's account of building a real pair of isospectral drums, shapes that sound alike, and what happened when the math…
We Will Not Destroy This List of Lists
A crowd-sourced roundup of the strangest Wikipedia lists, from leaning towers and stories set in a future now past to in…
Weak Men Are Superweapons
Scott Alexander's classic essay on how attacking the weakest version of a group's ideas can quietly discredit the whole…
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