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The Last Message Sent on AIM
A nostalgic essay about AOL Instant Messenger, away messages and teenage friendships, and what it felt like when the cha…
The Last Post
Blogger Derek K. Miller's final post, published by his family after his death from cancer, in which he reflects calmly a…
The last time my family was replaced by technology
A personal essay about the author's great-great-grandfather, a village farrier in rural France, and what the arrival of…
The Life of a Cherry Drying Pilot
A helicopter pilot explains the strange seasonal job of hovering low over cherry orchards after rain, using rotor wash t…
The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
An essay asking where the amateur researchers have gone, and how curiosity-driven study as a hobby can be revived, with…
The map that keeps Burning Man honest
How Burning Man inspects the desert after the event and publishes an annual map of litter, turning Leave No Trace from a…
The Marginalian - Marginalia on our search for meaning
Maria Popova's long-running essay archive exploring literature, art, science, and philosophy.
The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
A numbers-driven look at interruptions, recovery time and task size, showing why a few meetings can wipe out a whole day…
The Missing Missing Reasons
An influential essay on family estrangement that explores why parents often fail to see the reasons their adult children…
The Nature Conservancy
A global conservation nonprofit sharing land-protection stories, species profiles, and science on restoring forests, riv…
The Next Buddha May Be a Sangha
Thich Nhat Hanh's closing talk at a Day of Mindfulness, on why the next Buddha may take the form of a community, from th…
The Other Epidemic
A long first-person essay about the author's struggle to get off benzodiazepines, mixing memoir, medical history and a f…
The past was not that cute
A thoughtful essay arguing that pretty vintage aesthetics are not history, and that romanticizing the past erases how ha…
The Perils of Audience Capture
Gurwinder's essay on audience capture, showing through vivid case studies how online creators slowly reshape their perso…
The R. Bradley Lathe
The story of a working metal lathe improvised by a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp, with photos, construction details an…
The Radical Copyeditor's Style Guide for Writing About Transgender People
A clear, practical style guide from a genderqueer copyeditor on how to write about trans people with care, covering term…
The Radical Theology of Mr. Rogers
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg looks at the ideas behind Mister Rogers Neighborhood and argues that his gentle lessons on feelin…
The Red Hand Files - Really Old Rockstar
Nick Cave answers a fan who asks what the worst thing is about having become a really old rockstar, in one of his candid…
The Reverse Geocache Puzzle
The story of a locked puzzle box with a GPS inside that only opens at one secret location, built as a wedding gift, with…
The School of Life
A site translating philosophy and psychology into accessible articles and videos on emotional intelligence, relationship…
The Socratic Method
Rick Garlikov transcribes a lesson where he teaches third graders binary arithmetic only by asking questions, then refle…
The Spell That Wouldn't Leave
A warm personal essay about discovering Terry Pratchett at sixteen in a French classroom and the single sentence that ha…
The Story of my First Burn
A day-by-day account of a first trip to Burning Man in 2017, built from raw notes written in the desert and illustrated…
The Three Things Exercise for getting things out of talks
Mathematician Ravi Vakil explains a simple habit for actually remembering something from every talk you attend: jot down…
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