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The bee that everyone wants to save
A naturalist argues that the honeybees in neighbours' hives are not the ones in danger, and introduces the wild native b…
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
A biologist explains, with clear examples, why giant ants, fifty-foot women and other B-movie monsters could never exist…
The bottleneck might be the air in the room
An accessible look at how stuffy rooms and rising CO2 levels quietly blunt group decision making, with the research behi…
The Brains Blog
A long-running academic blog covering philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and neuroscience through posts from researc…
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The British Empire's Resilient Subsea Telegraph Network
A history of the Victorian undersea telegraph cables that tied the British Empire together, and why their routing was de…
The Case Against Computers in Math Education
Neal Koblitz's classic essay arguing that computers and calculators can shortchange mathematical understanding in the cl…
The Challenger Disaster
How Richard Feynman cut through NASA bureaucracy on the Challenger commission and showed the O-ring flaw with a glass of…
The Chaucer Astrolabe (1326)
A detailed look at the 1326 astrolabe from the treasure of Richard II, with radiography and images, part of a site recon…
The Chemistry of Matches
A clear Compound Interest infographic and explainer on what is in a match head and striking strip, and the chain of chem…
The Chinese Wheelbarrow
A Low-tech Magazine article on how the Chinese wheelbarrow carried huge loads efficiently, and why it deserves a place i…
The Conet Project
An introduction to shortwave numbers stations, the eerie broadcasts of voices reading strings of digits that spies recei…
The Curious Case Of Platypus Milk
A short science essay on why platypuses sweat milk, covering the odd biology of monotremes and why scientists find them…
The Dark Night of Mathematics
A reflective essay asking what mathematicians are really doing, tracing the unease behind foundations, proof and meaning…
The Dark Roof Lobby That May Be Heating Your City
An investigation into how dark roofing manufacturers quietly lobby against reflective roof rules that could cut cities'…
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Autocorrelation
A statistics-driven argument that the famous Dunning-Kruger chart may be a mathematical artifact, with simulations showi…
The Ear Does Not Do a Fourier Transform
A clear tour of how the cochlea really turns sound into neural signals, and why the popular 'ear as Fourier analyzer' id…
The Engineering Behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
A tour of the huge salt caverns, pipelines and pumps that store hundreds of millions of barrels of crude oil underground…
The Falling Nutritional Value of Crops
A data-driven essay on why wheat and rice contain fewer minerals than they did sixty years ago, and what that means for…
The Fantastic Voyage of Voyager
A history piece on how the little Voyager spacecraft kept going long after Americans lost interest in space, touring the…
The Fat Gold Guide to Extra Virgin Olive Oil
A detailed, constantly updated guide to olive oil from a small California producer: certification, tasting, biophenols,…
The Gentle Seduction
Marc Stiegler's classic 1989 short story following a woman across a lifetime as technology and the singularity gently re…
The Global Warming Blanket
A climate scientist crochets a blanket where each stripe is a year's global temperature, turning a warming-stripes chart…
The Gradient and What It Means (Pt. 2)
An essay on why some oral traditions preserve knowledge with stunning accuracy while others are no better than guessing,…
The Great Filter - Are We Almost Past It?
Robin Hanson's 1998 essay that coined the Great Filter, arguing that the silent, empty sky implies some brutal hurdle li…
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