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Largest Island in a Lake on an Island in a Lake
A geography curiosity hunt for the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island, with maps and a satisfy…
Learning Feynman's Trick for Integrals
A friendly illustrated walkthrough of Feynman's trick, differentiating under the integral sign, with worked examples tha…
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Learning from Building Failures: Civic Tower of Pavia
A case study of the sudden 1989 collapse of the 11th-century Civic Tower of Pavia, part of a University of Texas project…
Learning Pokemon With Reinforcement Learning
A write-up of a reinforcement learning agent that learns to beat Pokemon Red with under ten million parameters, explaini…
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Lembransation
A ten-year personal experiment in remembering every day that passes, with the memory techniques used, the science behind…
Lemming Suicide Myth
An Alaska Department of Fish and Game article debunking the myth that lemmings leap off cliffs, tracing it back to the s…
Life Is Not a Simulation but a Thought Experiment
An essay arguing that a computer simulation is not needed to explain our existence, and that logic alone is sufficient,…
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Linear Algebra: What Matrices Actually Are
A plain-language explainer revealing what matrices really are: linear transformations of space, which finally makes the…
Linnaeus and Race
An essay from the Linnean Society examining how Carl Linnaeus classified humans into varieties, what he actually wrote,…
Lisping at JPL
A first-person story of the rise and fall of Lisp at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told by an engineer who worked on…
Live Science
A popular science news outlet covering new discoveries in biology, geology, space, and medicine with accessible daily re…
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Living with Perfect Pitch and Synaesthesia
A musician explains from the inside what having perfect pitch and synaesthesia is really like - hearing notes in fridges…
LOGIC: A Cardboard Marble Calculator
A build log of a fully working 4-bit calculator made from cardboard, hot glue and marbles, where rolling marbles through…
L-systems
An illustrated explainer of Lindenmayer systems, the string-rewriting rules that grow branching plants and fractals, wit…
Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors
A homeowner's tongue-in-cheek experiment in fighting summer fruit flies with carnivorous plants, with notes on which spe…
Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
A profile of the 18th-century Duchess of Portland, whose obsession with shells, plants and curiosities made her one of t…
Marine Conservation Society
A UK ocean charity sharing beach cleanup data, seasonal seafood guides, and reports on the health of Britain's coastline…
Marines Defeat DARPA Robot With a Cardboard Box
A short, funny account of how Marines fooled an AI human-detecting robot with cardboard boxes, somersaults and tree-bran…
Math from Three to Seven
A lively review of Zvonkin's classic about a Moscow math circle for preschoolers, with delightful examples of how very y…
Mathematically Correct Breakfast
George Hart shows, step by step with photos, how to slice a bagel so the two halves come out as interlocking rings, plus…
Mathematics in the Library of Babel
An essay by mathematician Daniel Litt that uses Borges's Library of Babel to reflect on mathematics, what could be found…
MathPages
A dense, decades-old archive of essays working through recreational and research-level math problems, from number theory…
Matrices and Graphs
A clear illustrated explainer of how every matrix is secretly a graph and vice versa, and why this fact makes so much of…
Mayerle's International Test Chart, 1907
The National Library of Medicine shows a lavish 1907 multilingual eye-test chart, with letters in several scripts and pi…
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