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Weather forecasts have become much more accurate
An Our World in Data piece with charts showing that a four-day forecast now matches the accuracy of a one-day forecast 3…
Web and HyperText History
A timeline of the history of the web and hypertext, tracing the ideas and milestones from early visions of linked inform…
web.dev
Google's resource of guidance and tutorials for building fast, accessible, secure, and modern websites that work across…
Welcome to the Land of Children
A Princeton library post on Kodomo no Kuni, the 1920s Japanese children's magazine whose vivid modernist illustrations b…
Welcome to the Public Domain
A plain-language guide from Stanford explaining what the public domain is, how creative works enter it, and how to tell…
We're Knot Friends
A personal April Cools essay from the Math Intersect Programming blog, written off-topic and looking back on summers spe…
We're Not Going to Run Out of New Anatomy Anytime Soon
An award-winning SV-POW! post on why sauropod vertebrae still hold undiscovered anatomical features, and how much unexpl…
What Character Was Removed from the Alphabet?
A short etymology piece tracing the ampersand from its Latin roots to its former place as the 27th letter of the English…
What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do?
A clear walk through Ada Lovelace's 1843 Note G, explaining how the first published program for Babbage's Analytical Eng…
What Did the Depressed Clown Say to Buddha?
An essay built on Kierkegaard's idea that the crowd is untruth, weighing the danger of feeling compassion without ever a…
What Do Visa and Mastercard Do?
A clear introduction to how card networks work, who pays whom when you tap a card, and why interchange fees exist, writt…
What Editing Magazine Stories Taught Me About Writing
Journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis shares an incomplete list of hard-won writing lessons from years of editing magazine f…
What I Think About When I Edit
A professional editor explains how she approaches editing emails, stories and documentation, with concrete questions to…
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What If I Were 1% Charged?
A physicist works out, with back-of-envelope math, what would happen if your body carried a 1% imbalance of electric cha…
What is energy, actually?
Jean-Marc Jancovici explains in plain language what energy physically is, why it means transformation of the environment…
What is HDR, anyway?
A clear, illustrated explainer from the Halide camera team on what HDR actually means, why photos and screens confuse pe…
What Is Heat?
A readable Northwestern educational page on what heat is and how spacecraft control it, part of a larger thermal systems…
What Is Spacetime, Really?
Stephen Wolfram marks 100 years of general relativity with an illustrated essay proposing that space and time emerge fro…
What is the Hong Kong New Wave?
A beginner's guide to the Hong Kong New Wave, the 1979-1995 film movement of Tsui Hark, Ann Hui and Wong Kar-wai, coveri…
What Is the Size of Yemen?
A fun investigation into a century-old geography misinformation, following one odd viewer comment back through old encyc…
What is the Uncanny?
An Oregon State guide-to-literary-terms explainer on the uncanny, Freud's 1919 idea of the familiar turned strange, with…
What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years
The full text of a 1900 Ladies Home Journal piece predicting life in 2000, from mobile phones and color photography to v…
What really has a 1 in a million chance?
A Berkeley statistician's playful classroom topic: sort out which everyday events genuinely have one-in-a-million odds,…
What Sort of Thing a Brain Is
A short note by Nate Soares on what kind of thing a brain is, a specialty device shaped by evolution, written as backgro…
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