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Barking Up the Wrong Tree
A blog that mines academic research on psychology, success, and relationships to answer everyday questions with evidence…
Battleship
A playful deep dive into overengineering the game of Battleship, using probability heatmaps and information gain to work…
Bee Bed
Free plans for a Bee Bed, a slatted bed built on top of a living beehive so you can sleep to the hum and scent of the co…
Bee Bread
An essay from the Nordic Food Lab on bee bread, the fermented pollen honeybees pack into their combs, exploring its chem…
Belshazzar's Clock
A project write-up on a night clock that shows the time with a rotating luminous-painted drum lit by ultraviolet LEDs, c…
Benchma(r)king
James Bridle builds a chair with his hands to probe how bodily intelligence differs from AI, in a long illustrated essay…
Beyond the Sea
Cartographer Andy Woodruff maps what you are actually facing when you stand on a beach and look straight out to sea, wit…
Bioethics.net
The companion site to the American Journal of Bioethics, featuring blog commentary and news on medical and biotechnology…
Biophony
A long-form essay on soundscape ecology, following how recordist Bernie Krause hears whole ecosystems as orchestras of a…
Bird Brains
A short curious read that starts with a kea parrot dragging traffic cones onto a road for snacks, then asks how we measu…
Bird Watcher's Digest
The online home of a long-running birding magazine, with feeding tips, identification help, and essays for backyard and…
BirdGuides
A British birding news hub with real-time rare bird sightings, identification articles, and photography from across the…
BirdLife International
A global bird conservation partnership publishing research, species status updates, and stories from its network of nati…
Black History Charts, 1900
A gallery of the striking hand-drawn, hand-colored data charts W.E.B. Du Bois and his Atlanta University students made f…
Black Holes Aren't Black
A Physics Today feature on the quantum puzzle Hawking radiation exposed, revisiting what we still do not understand half…
Black Rust and Cast Iron Seasoning
Sheryl Canter's widely cited explanation of the chemistry behind seasoning cast-iron pans, why black rust matters, and h…
Blocky Planet
A detailed, illustrated dive into the design problems of building a spherical planet out of Minecraft-like cubes, with i…
Blue light filters don't work
A neuroscientist explains why blue light filters do little for sleep and why controlling total screen luminance is a bet…
Boids
Craig Reynolds explains his 1986 Boids model of flocks, herds and schools: three simple steering rules, separation, alig…
Bourdieu's Food Space
Gastronomica revisits Pierre Bourdieu's famous chart of food tastes and class with a modern version, mapping kale, srira…
BPS Research Digest
A digest from the British Psychological Society that summarizes new peer-reviewed psychology studies in clear, jargon-fr…
Brighter Than a Cloud
Claire L. Evans tries to describe the shimmering migraine aura called a scintillating scotoma, drawing on art, science a…
Building a GPS Receiver, Part 1: Hearing Whispers
The opening of a deep-dive series on building a GPS receiver from scratch, starting with how faint satellite signals are…
Building the Ultimate Solar System
Astrophysicist Sean Raymond assembles a physically plausible solar system packed with as many habitable worlds as possib…
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