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Examine: Unbiased, Evidence-Based Nutrition & Supplement Analysis
Independent database analyzing scientific research on nutrition and dietary supplements without industry funding.
Experiments on a $50 DIY Air Purifier
A hands-on experiment that builds a box-fan air purifier in 30 seconds, fills a room with smoke and measures particle co…
explained.ai
A set of deeply illustrated, interactive explainers that unpack how machine learning and statistics concepts like random…
Exploring Rectangle Subdivisions
An exploration of irreducible rectangle subdivisions, sparked by a talk on a procedurally generated city, with diagrams…
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation
A short list of surprising false assumptions about flights, airports, callsigns and time, revealing how messy and fascin…
Fatal Dose
A detailed account of the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine, whose software errors killed patients in the 1980s, a cla…
Feynman vs. The Abacus
An excerpt from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman in which the physicist races a skilled abacus user and learns how fast…
Feynman's Appendix F on Shuttle Reliability
Richard Feynman's personal observations on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a famous appendix on wildly optimistic…
Fields of the Moon
A visit to the Cinder Lake crater field in Arizona, where NASA blasted hundreds of craters into a volcanic plain in 1967…
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Finding Cheaters Using Multiple-Choice Comparisons
A professor walks through how he caught students cheating on a final exam by comparing matching wrong answers, with simp…
Finding The Air Cannon
A blog post about tracking down a mysterious booming noise in the countryside by triangulating its sound, which turns ou…
Finding Waldo in Pi
Taking up an SMBC comic challenge, a math blogger searches the digits of pi for a sequence that can be drawn as a recogn…
First Nature
A meticulous UK wildlife reference with photo identification guides spanning fungi, wildflowers, butterflies, and other…
First Photo of a Person
Part of a site on firsts in recording sight and sound, this page tells how a man getting his boots shined in Paris in 18…
First TV Image of Mars
The story of the first close-up image of Mars, which impatient JPL engineers hand-colored with pastels from printed stri…
Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future
A former Dyson engineer invents an off-grid, flat-packable hand-powered washing machine meant to cut hours of laundry dr…
FlowingData
Nathan Yau's blog exploring how statisticians, designers, and data scientists use visualization to understand data and l…
Focusing on Blue
A visual explainer exploring why the human eye can never quite bring the color blue into focus, and how the brain fills…
French Cheese Under Threat
CNRS explains how raw milk cheeses like Roquefort and Camembert depend on microbial diversity, and why industrial practi…
Fresh From the Lab
A lab report from the OpenAWG project, which is building an open-source atmospheric water generator that pulls drinking…
Functorio
Bartosz Milewski explains category theory and functional programming through the factory building game Factorio, mapping…
Galactic Compass
Matt Webb introduces an app with a compass that points to the center of the galaxy, with notes on how and why he built i…
Garden Myths
A science-minded gardening blog that fact-checks popular gardening advice against horticultural research, one myth at a…
Geology IN
A photo-heavy geology blog sharing striking rock formations, fossils, and landscapes from around the world with short ex…
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