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Why I Write
George Orwell's 1946 essay on his four motives for writing and how he set out to turn political writing into an art, in…
Why Intelligence Doesn't Improve Reasoning
An essay arguing that real-world rationality depends less on IQ than on timing, framing, and incentives, and why smart p…
Why is the sky blue?
An explainer that goes beyond the name Rayleigh scattering to actually show why the sky is blue and sunsets are red, eve…
Why Medieval City-Builder Games Are Historically Inaccurate
A medievalist's look at what city-building video games get wrong about medieval towns, from tidy street grids to the way…
Why Modern Chinese is Just English with Hanzi
An essay on how modern Chinese grammar and vocabulary were reshaped by European languages in the 20th century, with exam…
Why Ships Use Port and Starboard
A short NOAA explainer on why sailors say port and starboard instead of left and right, with the surprising history of t…
Why SICP Matters
Brian Harvey of Berkeley argues why the SICP textbook changed how people think about programming, and what it teaches be…
Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
An explainer on the color theory and industrial psychology behind the pale seafoam green used in control rooms and facto…
Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
Philosopher Joseph Heath's essay on Iain M. Banks's Culture novels and why this post-scarcity utopia works as a vision o…
Why We Need a Literary Canon
An essay by Joshua Fagan arguing for the enduring value of preserving the best of human thought and expression in a shar…
Why Your City's Street Grid Matters More Than You Think
An essay on the hidden impact street connectivity has on transportation, housing and how easily people can get around a…
Wigleaf
A flash fiction journal known for its annual Top 50 Very Short Fictions list, curating some of the best micro-stories pu…
wikiHow
A collaborative how-to manual with illustrated step-by-step guides on a vast range of everyday tasks.
Wikipedia - Random Article
A link that sends you to a completely random article on the free English-language encyclopedia.
Will Eisner - Lambiek Comiclopedia
The Lambiek Comiclopedia biography of Will Eisner, pioneer of the graphic novel and creator of The Spirit, with illustra…
William Burroughs and London's First Espresso Bar
A London history blog tells how Soho's first espresso bar opened in 1953 and how William Burroughs later put a curse on…
William Faulkner's Nobel Banquet Speech
The text of William Faulkner's 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature banquet speech, a short address on the writer's duty and t…
Williamina Fleming: Maid to Victorian Era Astronomer
The story of Williamina Fleming, a housemaid who became a Harvard human computer and discovered the Horsehead Nebula, hu…
Windshield Pitting Epidemic of 1954
A HistoryLink account of the 1954 wave of mysterious pits and dings in car windshields across Washington State and the m…
Words Without Borders
A magazine devoted to international literature in English translation, publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from w…
Working as a Software Developer
An essay adapted from a talk to first-year engineering students that explains what software development work is actually…
Works in Progress
A magazine of deeply researched, optimistic essays on economic growth, technology, and progress, illustrated with origin…
World Wide Words
A meticulously researched site exploring the origins and byways of English words and phrases, written by a former dictio…
Worldizing
An explainer of worldizing, Walter Murch's technique of replaying recorded sound through speakers in real spaces and re-…
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