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Indigo: Plant of Culture and Color
Cornell Botanic Gardens explores indigo, the plant behind blue dye, and the skill and resilience of enslaved Africans an…
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Industrious Dice
Mathematician James Propp explores a puzzle about dice that do more than their share of work, a playful essay on probabi…
In-Mind Magazine
A free online magazine where social psychologists write for a general audience about research on prejudice, identity, an…
Insane in the Chromatophores
Neuroscience hobbyists wire an iPod to the fin nerve of a squid and make its color-changing chromatophore cells flash in…
Interruptions Cost 23 Minutes 15 Seconds, Right?
A myth-busting dig into the famous claim that every interruption costs 23 minutes of focus, tracing the number back thro…
Into the Sky: Cluster Ballooning
A pilot's first-hand account of cluster ballooning, flying across the countryside hanging beneath dozens of helium ballo…
Introducing Flickr PARK or BIRD
A Flickr engineering write-up on building a computer vision system that answers a famous xkcd question: whether a photo…
Introduction to Stochastic Calculus
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of stochastic calculus that builds intuition for random processes through ordinary calcu…
Introduction to the Fourier Transform
A classic illustrated tutorial on Fourier transforms for image processing, showing how images decompose into frequencies…
Is Everything Conscious?
An essay making the case for panpsychism as a compromise between physicalism and dualism, and explaining why the combina…
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Is Grover swearing? No, it's in your ears
A phonetics professor breaks down the viral Sesame Street clip where Grover seems to swear, using spectrograms to explai…
Is Seattle a 15-Minute City?
An analysis of how many Seattle residents can walk to groceries, schools and parks within 15 minutes, with neighborhood…
Iterating Towards Bethlehem
A Peter Watts essay on spider cognition and what tiny brains can do, a thoughtful science writing piece from a hard scie…
Jay Alammar's Illustrated Guides
Illustrated guides that break down how transformers, GPT, and other AI models work using detailed step-by-step diagrams…
John Bortle's Dark Sky Scale
An explanation of the Bortle scale, the nine-step measure of night sky darkness, describing what you can see at each lev…
Jupiter Structural Layer Cake
A baker builds a spherical cake whose slice reveals the internal structure of Jupiter, layer by layer, with photos of th…
Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Illustrated With Modern Science
A paleo-illustrator walks through every dinosaur from the Jurassic Park films and redraws each one as modern science say…
Just How Bad Is Sleep Deprivation?
A parallax-scrolling timeline that walks through the day-by-day effects of going without sleep, from the first missed ni…
Kalman Filter Explained Simply
A picture-driven walkthrough of the Kalman filter that explains how it blends noisy measurements with predictions, using…
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L'Affaire Siloxane
The strange true story of how antiperspirant fumes nearly led NASA to evacuate the International Space Station, told wit…
Lake Nyos, Menchum
The Cameroon crater lake that released a cloud of carbon dioxide in 1986 and suffocated over 1,700 people in one night,…
Lambda Calculus
An illustrated explanation of lambda calculus, Alonzo Church's 1936 model of computation, showing how functions and vari…
Language of Flowers
A Biodiversity Heritage Library post on the 19th-century language of flowers craze, when floral dictionaries gave women…
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