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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 It Like to Be a Philosopher?
A series of in-depth autobiographical interviews with philosophers about their ideas, careers, and lives inside academia…
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 Stoicism?
A hub for Stoic philosophy that mixes original essays with the best curated resources from around the web to help reader…
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 Should I Read Next
A book recommendation engine that suggests what to read based on a title you loved, drawing on readers' real bookshelves…
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…
What the Color?
A quiz that tests your knowledge of web colors and hex codes, turning the learning of named CSS colors into a quick game…
What The Flexbox?!
A free series of 20 short videos that teach CSS Flexbox, working from the basics through to real page layouts you can bu…
What the Romans Found Funny
An essay on the comedies of Plautus and Terence, explaining the jokes, farce and wordplay that made Roman audiences laug…
What Was the CO2 When You Were Born?
Enter your birth date and see the atmospheric CO2 level on the day you were born, a quick way to feel how much the clima…
Whataaabout
A curated list of activities you can do in a short time to expand your interests, with unusual ideas for what to try, re…
Whatlang
A guessing game that shows street signs, store names, and random inscriptions and asks you to identify which language th…
WhatMoji
A tool for identifying emojis you cannot decipher: look up what an unfamiliar emoji means and how people actually use it…
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What's a fire, and why does it burn?
A mathematician stares at a beach bonfire, realizes he does not understand fire, and works out what flames really are, w…
What's Closer?
A geography guessing game that asks which of two countries is closer to where you are, keeping a streak score as you go.
What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
A curious, well-sourced look at whether ants outweigh humans and which living group really tops Earth's biomass, with te…
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What's new - Terence Tao
The blog of mathematician Terence Tao, mixing research updates, expository essays, open problems and accessible musings…
What's That Bug?
A long-running community blog where entomology enthusiasts help identify mystery insects submitted by readers from aroun…
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