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All About Automotive Lidar
A comprehensive plain-English guide to automotive lidar: what it measures, how it gets distance, the main scanner design…
All About Earth's Gravity
A Physics Forums Insights article explaining Earth's surface gravity of about 9.8 meters per second squared and how the…
All Clocks Are 30 Seconds Late
A playful and surprisingly rigorous argument that every clock you see runs about 30 seconds behind, built from how we sa…
All of Physics in 9 Lines
A bold one-page table that condenses all known physics, from relativity to quantum theory, into nine short lines, part o…
AlphaZero: Shedding New Light on Chess, Shogi, and Go
Google DeepMind's account of how AlphaZero taught itself chess, shogi, and Go from scratch and then beat the strongest p…
Aluminum Foil
A wandering notebook essay on kitchen aluminum foil as a remarkable material, exploring its tiny thickness, odd properti…
American Rivers
A river conservation nonprofit tracking dam removals, water policy, and the ecological health of waterways across the Un…
An Accidental Statistician
George E.P. Box tells how he stumbled into statistics while working on poison gas experiments in wartime Britain, a char…
An n-ball between n-balls
A geometry curiosity showing how a small ball tucked between neighbouring spheres behaves unexpectedly as the number of…
Anders Hoff / inconvergent
The algorithmic art notebook of Anders Hoff, documenting generative systems like erosion, growth, and flocking with visu…
Antarctica and the Arctic Compared
An illustrated explainer on how the north and south poles differ and overlap, covering geography, ice, climate, wildlife…
Anything Will Lase If You Hit It Hard Enough
A pedantic guide to the physics of lasers, featuring gin, Jell-O, and peacocks, explaining how almost any material can b…
Apollo 11 vs USB-C Chargers
A fun look at how the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer stacks up against a modern USB-C charger, with side-by-side numbers on…
Archimedes' Cattle Problem
The famous ancient puzzle about the Sun god's cattle in full English statement, with solution pages and history of the e…
Are You Living in a Simulation?
Nick Bostrom's original 2003 paper laying out the simulation argument, the reasoning that made 'we might be living in a…
Are You the One Is Free Money
A reality-TV-loving husband shows how simple information theory and probability can crack the dating show Are You the On…
Armillary sphere
The Oxford History of Science Museum explains the armillary sphere, the ring-based model of the heavens, how its circles…
Ask Ethan #18: Why Aren't We a Black Hole?
Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel explains why the early universe did not collapse into a black hole at the moment of the Big…
Astral Codex Ten
A newsletter by psychiatrist Scott Alexander examining psychology, rationality, and social science with long, deeply res…
Astronomy Magazine
A long-running astronomy publication with observing guides, sky-event calendars, and explainers for backyard telescope o…
Atomic Clusters
A visual write-up of building a molecular particle simulation where simple bonding rules make atoms clump into clusters,…
Augmenting Long-term Memory
Michael Nielsen's long essay on using spaced repetition software to remember almost anything, with the author's detailed…
Bacteria store memories and pass them on for generations
Scientists at UT Austin show that bacteria can form memory-like responses about when to build protective communities and…
Balancing Cube
The build story of a self-made cube that balances itself on a single corner using reaction wheels, with videos, design d…
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