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Why jalapeno peppers are less spicy
An explanation of why modern jalapenos have lost their heat, tracing decades of deliberate breeding at Texas A&M and deb…
Why Jet Engines Aren't Made in China
A deep explainer on why China still struggles to build top jet engines, and what the metallurgy, tooling and decades of…
Why Medieval City-Builder Games Are Historically Inaccurate
A medievalist's look at what city-building video games get wrong about medieval towns, from tidy street grids to the way…
Why Modern Chinese is Just English with Hanzi
An essay on how modern Chinese grammar and vocabulary were reshaped by European languages in the 20th century, with exam…
Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green
An explainer on the color theory and industrial psychology behind the pale seafoam green used in control rooms and facto…
Why Solarpunk Is Already Happening in Africa
An essay arguing that African countries are leaping past fossil infrastructure, with distributed solar, mobile money and…
Why Time Seems to Pass Faster as We Age
An essay exploring the psychology and neuroscience behind the feeling that years speed up as we get older, and what we m…
Why Wavy Walls Use Fewer Bricks
An explainer on crinkle crankle walls, the serpentine garden walls popular in England that are stronger and use fewer br…
Why What3Words is not suitable for safety critical use
A security researcher digs into what3words and finds near-identical word triples sitting close together, showing how eas…
Williamina Fleming: Maid to Victorian Era Astronomer
The story of Williamina Fleming, a housemaid who became a Harvard human computer and discovered the Horsehead Nebula, hu…
Women Illustrators of the Pomological Watercolor Collection
Meet Deborah Passmore, Amanda Newton and the other women artists who painted thousands of exquisite fruit portraits for…
World Data Crystals
Artist Scott Kildall shows how he turned world datasets like city populations into faceted 3D-printed crystals, with pho…
World Wildlife Fund
WWF's site covers endangered species profiles, habitat conservation campaigns, and stories from wildlife protection effo…
Wound-man: Feldtbuch der Wundartzney
The Royal College of Surgeons library explores the Wound-man, a figure stabbed, sliced and bludgeoned in every way, used…
Xerces Society
An invertebrate conservation nonprofit publishing guides on protecting bees, butterflies, and other pollinators in home…
Xerox Scanners Randomly Alter Numbers
The story of how a researcher discovered that Xerox office copiers silently swapped digits in scanned documents because…
Yellowstone Bears Eat 40,000 Moths a Day
Why grizzly bears in Yellowstone climb above timberline every August to flip rocks and eat tens of thousands of army cut…
Yes, we did discover the Higgs
A physicist answers a skeptical essay claiming the Higgs discovery never took place, explaining how statistics and evide…
Yoann Bourgeois at the Pantheon in the Eye of a Physicist
A physicist looks at Yoann Bourgeois's gravity-defying dance machines staged beside Foucault's pendulum in the Pantheon,…
Your Language Brain Matters More for Learning to Code
A science article on research showing that language aptitude predicts how well people learn to code better than math ski…
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You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking
A worldbuilder's myth-busting tour of tidal locking, explaining what it really does to planets and moons and why so many…
Z2: A Lithographically Fabricated IC in a Garage
Sam Zeloof documents building integrated circuits at home in his garage, from photolithography setup to the working Z2 c…
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