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How to Create a Lego Relief Map
A cartographer explains how she turned elevation data into a physical topographic relief map built from childhood LEGO b…
How to pack a stereo signal in one record groove
An illustrated explainer of how one vinyl groove carries two channels, comparing vertical and horizontal modulation and…
How to Pick a Random Number from 1-10
A playful data story that uses answers from over 8500 people to show how biased humans are at picking random numbers, an…
How to Sequence Your DNA for Under $2k
A hands-on account of sequencing your own genome on the cheap, covering the kit, the mess, the data and what the results…
How to Sequence Your Own DNA at Home
A first-person guide to sequencing a human genome five times at home with an Oxford Nanopore MinION, covering the kit, w…
How to Study Mathematics
A university professor's essay of practical strategies for studying college math, covering definitions, theorems, proofs…
How to Survive Boiling Water
The story of MIT's most notorious milk carton, bought in 1994 and rediscovered in a dorm fridge, and the probiotic parad…
How We Animated Trillions of Tons of Flowing Ice
A graphics editor explains how he animated the slow crawl of Antarctica's ice sheet using an old video game color-cyclin…
Hugelkultur: The Ultimate Raised Garden Beds
A detailed illustrated guide to hugelkultur, the practice of building raised garden beds over buried rotting logs so the…
I Counted All of the Yurts in Mongolia
A hobbyist trains a machine learning model on satellite imagery to count every yurt in Mongolia, with maps, methods and…
I Do Not Remember My Life and It's Fine
A personal essay on what reminiscing is like without mental imagery, exploring aphantasia, memory and how a mind without…
I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived
A Navy Crusader pilot's first-hand story of ejecting from a burning jet, falling 15,000 feet when his parachute failed,…
I Found a 55 Year Old Bug in the First Lunar Lander Game
The story of digging into the original 1969 Lunar Lander game code and uncovering a decades-old bug in how its physics c…
I Made a 3D Printed VTOL Drone
A maker's write-up of designing a 3D printed VTOL drone with no background in CAD or aerodynamics, covering the build an…
I Made a Camera Lens with an Iceberg
A photographer carves a working camera lens out of Icelandic glacier ice and shoots portraits with it before it melts, w…
I Made My Blog Solar-Powered, Then Things Escalated
A hobbyist's tale of running a blog on a tiny solar-powered server, and how the project snowballed into batteries, panel…
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I Put a Toaster in the Dishwasher
A science teacher's playful and thoughtful post on why testing an absurd idea, like washing a toaster, teaches more abou…
I should have loved biology too
A personal essay on going from hating biology to being obsessed with it, and how great writing can make a subject come a…
If We Can Soar
A long-form Pipe Wrench story about the Black men of South Central Los Angeles who have raised Birmingham Roller pigeons…
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In Lebanon, Solar Power Booms
An anthropologist explores how Lebanese households turned to rooftop solar amid blackouts, and what it says about resili…
In Search Of A Flood Like No Other
A playful deep dive into the Zanclean megaflood, when the Atlantic broke through at Gibraltar and refilled a dried-out M…
In Search of the Red Demon
A diver's illustrated account of night-diving in the Sea of Cortez to find Humboldt squid, with photos of the aggressive…
Income Inequality, as Seen from Space
Side-by-side satellite views of rich and poor neighborhoods in US cities reveal how tree cover tracks income, in a short…
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