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Who Owns England?
An interactive map of land ownership in England, showing estates held by the Crown, aristocrats, water companies, the mi…
Who Pays Writers?
An anonymous, crowdsourced list of which publications pay freelance writers and how much, collected from the writers the…
WhoCanUse
A tool that shows how a color pairing's contrast looks to people with different visual impairments, building understandi…
Whole Earth Index
A nearly complete online archive of Whole Earth publications, the magazines and catalogs descended from the Whole Earth…
Why A4? The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
An accessible essay on why A4 paper has its odd dimensions, explaining the square root of two ratio that lets every A-se…
Why are there 5280 feet in a mile?
A short history of how the Roman mile of 1000 paces became 5280 feet, as Elizabethan England tried to reconcile the mile…
Why Be Moral?
Larry Sanger's essay presenting his basic approach to ethics, arguing that living well is the foundation of morality and…
Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra
A science journalist explains the busy beaver game, the Antihydra program that resists proof, and why it ties back to th…
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
A well-known essay by David Moser on why learning Chinese is so difficult for English speakers, covering the characters,…
Why Didn't Gandalf Own a Colt .45?
A long, playful essay asking why Middle-earth never had an industrial revolution, using real economic history to examine…
Why Do Electronic Components Have Such Odd Values?
A clear explainer on why resistors and capacitors come in values like 4.7 and 22, the E-series preferred numbers and the…
Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?
A clear explainer on track ballast, the crushed stone beside railway tracks, covering how it spreads load, drains water,…
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Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa
The full text of Ernst Stuhlinger's 1970 reply to a nun in Zambia who asked why money goes to space while children starv…
Why I Am Not a Christian
A philosophy essay by Keith Parsons, a former professor of the philosophy of religion, laying out his reasoned case for…
Why I Am Not a Christian
The full text of Bertrand Russell's famous 1927 lecture laying out his reasons for rejecting Christianity, from the argu…
Why I Am Not a Communist
Bertrand Russell's short essay explaining his objections to Marxist philosophy and Soviet communism, written with his ch…
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…
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