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The Illustrated AlphaFold
A visual walkthrough of the AlphaFold3 architecture with diagrams and plain explanations of how the model predicts prote…
The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
A famous illustrated explanation of what a PhD actually is, showing how a doctorate pushes a tiny bump onto the boundary…
The Infamous Coin Toss
A lay-audience explanation of ergodicity breaking through a simple coin-toss gamble where the average outcome and what h…
The Information Philosopher
A site exploring free will, determinism, and the physics of information through essays that connect philosophy of mind w…
The King Wen Permutation
A short mathematical exploration of how the two classical orderings of the 64 I Ching hexagrams relate as a permutation,…
The Lascaux Cave Paintings
An illustrated guide to the Lascaux cave in southwestern France, walking through its Palaeolithic paintings of horses, a…
The Last Question
Isaac Asimov's classic 1956 short story, read in the browser, about humanity repeatedly asking a computer whether entrop…
The Lion of St. Mark's Square in Venice Is Chinese
Isotopic analysis of the bronze Lion of St. Mark's in Venice traces its metal to China, upending a long-held assumption…
The Many Faces of Mean Field Theory
A physics essay exploring how mean field theory shows up across statistical mechanics and related fields, one idea viewe…
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 Meme-ification of the Demon Core
Historian Alex Wellerstein traces how the 1946 criticality accident involving the Demon Core turned from a tragic lab mi…
The Moon Blew Up Without Warning
A physics essay that takes the opening line of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves and simulates what would actually happen to t…
The Most Counterintuitive Facts in Math, CS and Physics
A long list of the most surprising true facts from mathematics, computer science and physics, each a sentence or two wit…
The Nature Conservancy
A global conservation nonprofit sharing land-protection stories, species profiles, and science on restoring forests, riv…
The Neural Network Zoo
A colorful illustrated cheat sheet of dozens of neural network architectures, from perceptrons to GANs, each drawn as a…
The Neuroscience of Philosophical Hypotheticals
An essay on how our brains respond to moral thought experiments like the trolley problem, linking late-night philosophic…
The New Atlantis
A journal of essays examining how technology, science, and progress reshape society, ethics, and what it means to live w…
The Niepce Heliograph
The Harry Ransom Center's page on the Niepce heliograph, the earliest surviving camera photograph, a view from a window…
The Oldest Representations of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
A rock art study of Saharan cave paintings from 9000-7000 years ago, including the Tassili mushroom figures, argued to b…
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The Orbit of Planet Nine
The astronomers who proposed Planet Nine explain how they narrowed down its likely orbit and where in the sky it could b…
The Original Affluent Society
A 1979 Fifth Estate piece on hunter-gatherer societies and Marshall Sahlins's argument that early peoples enjoyed leisur…
The Pleasant Places to Live
A data-driven map of the United States showing how many pleasantly mild, dry days each place gets per year, from sunny L…
The Problem with Maps
An illustrated interactive essay on why flat maps distort the round Earth, letting you explore different map projections…
The Psychology of Waiting Lines
David Maister's classic essay on why waiting feels the way it does, with eight principles such as occupied time feeling…
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