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Violent Enough to Stand Still
An essay asking why human societies changed so little over 300,000 years, weighing violence, cooperation and social stru…
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Visualizing Ocean Shipping
A historian plots thousands of 18th and 19th century ship logbook positions to map the old ocean trade routes, with stri…
Wave-Based Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging in Julia
An introduction to non-line-of-sight imaging that shows how to reconstruct images of objects hidden around a corner in u…
We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
A write-up of the first experiment using focused ultrasound on the brain's olfactory bulb to make human volunteers smell…
We Made the Isospectral Drums
A maker's account of building a real pair of isospectral drums, shapes that sound alike, and what happened when the math…
Weather forecasts have become much more accurate
An Our World in Data piece with charts showing that a four-day forecast now matches the accuracy of a one-day forecast 3…
Weather Model Based on ADS-B
A short project write-up showing how the speed and heading data every plane broadcasts can be turned into wind and weath…
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Welcome to the Land
A long-form travel essay from Utqiagvik, Alaska, the northernmost town in the United States, about standing on Arctic ic…
We're Not Going to Run Out of New Anatomy Anytime Soon
An award-winning SV-POW! post on why sauropod vertebrae still hold undiscovered anatomical features, and how much unexpl…
What does an idle CPU do?
A clear, illustrated explainer of what happens inside a computer when there is nothing to run - the idle task, the halt…
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What Happened with LEGO
A charts-heavy analysis of LEGO sets over decades, asking whether bricks got pricier, pieces got smaller and kits got mo…
What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin
A Nautilus feature on a decade-old study in which clergy from many faiths took psilocybin, and what their spiritual expe…
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What If I Were 1% Charged?
A physicist works out, with back-of-envelope math, what would happen if your body carried a 1% imbalance of electric cha…
What I'm Not Going to Do
A science writer's list of the cliches she refuses to use when profiling a woman scientist, the essay that gave rise to…
What Is a Zero Refractive Index Material?
A physicist explains what happens to light in a material with refractive index zero, where waves stop oscillating in spa…
What is energy, actually?
Jean-Marc Jancovici explains in plain language what energy physically is, why it means transformation of the environment…
What Is Gridification?
A 50-year analysis of Billboard hits showing how studio tools gradually snapped human performances onto a perfect grid,…
What Is Heat?
A readable Northwestern educational page on what heat is and how spacecraft control it, part of a larger thermal systems…
What Is Spacetime, Really?
Stephen Wolfram marks 100 years of general relativity with an illustrated essay proposing that space and time emerge fro…
What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years
The full text of a 1900 Ladies Home Journal piece predicting life in 2000, from mobile phones and color photography to v…
What really has a 1 in a million chance?
A Berkeley statistician's playful classroom topic: sort out which everyday events genuinely have one-in-a-million odds,…
What Sort of Thing a Brain Is
A short note by Nate Soares on what kind of thing a brain is, a specialty device shaped by evolution, written as backgro…
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What's a fire, and why does it burn?
A mathematician stares at a beach bonfire, realizes he does not understand fire, and works out what flames really are, w…
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