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jasmcole.com Article

The Moon Blew Up Without Warning

A physics essay that takes the opening line of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves and simulates what would actually happen to t…

axisofordinary.substack.com Article

The Most Counterintuitive Facts in Math, CS and Physics

A long list of the most surprising true facts from mathematics, computer science and physics, each a sentence or two wit…

movablefeastmachine.org Website

The Movable Feast Machine

A research project on an indefinitely scalable computing architecture built from tiny cellular automaton-like tiles, wit…

themythsandhistoryofredhair.co.uk Website

The Myths and History of Red Hair

A deep dive into how red hair has been seen through history, from ancient quotes and witch hunts to vampires, Judas, roy…

thenakedscientists.com Audio

The Naked Scientists

A Cambridge-based science radio show and podcast answering listener questions and stripping science down to the bare ess…

web.evanchen.cc Website

The Napkin Project

A free, friendly book by Evan Chen that tours higher mathematics for motivated beginners, from group theory to algebraic…

travel-experience-live.com Website

The National Parks Experience

An independent site about US national parks, forests and public lands, covering nature preservation, wildlife conservati…

nature.org Article

The Nature Conservancy

A global conservation nonprofit sharing land-protection stories, species profiles, and science on restoring forests, riv…

natureofcode.com Website

The Nature of Code

A free online book by Daniel Shiffman teaching simulations of natural systems like physics, flocking, and evolution thro…

golem.ph.utexas.edu Website

The n-Category Cafe

A group blog on mathematics, physics, and philosophy, with deep posts on category theory and its links to other fields,…

cosmicweb.barabasilab.com Interactive

The Network Behind the Cosmic Web

An interactive visualization that treats the universe as a network, letting you explore thousands of galaxies linked int…

asimovinstitute.org Article

The Neural Network Zoo

A colorful illustrated cheat sheet of dozens of neural network architectures, from perceptrons to GANs, each drawn as a…

cognitivephilosophy.net Article

The Neuroscience of Philosophical Hypotheticals

An essay on how our brains respond to moral thought experiments like the trolley problem, linking late-night philosophic…

thenewatlantis.com Article

The New Atlantis

A journal of essays examining how technology, science, and progress reshape society, ethics, and what it means to live w…

thenewnormal.is Interactive

The New Normal

A visualization that uses Google Trends to show how shopping interest in various products shifted before and during the…

hrc.utexas.edu Article

The Niepce Heliograph

The Harry Ransom Center's page on the Niepce heliograph, the earliest surviving camera photograph, a view from a window…

thenode.biologists.com Website

The Node

A community blog for and by developmental biologists, run by the journal Development, covering news, meetings, and resea…

nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu Website

The Nutrition Source

Harvard's evidence-based nutrition guide covering the healthy eating plate, food features, and diet reviews written by p…

almanac.com Website

The Old Farmer's Almanac

The Old Farmer's Almanac online, with planting calendars, frost dates, folklore, and long-range weather predictions publ…

artepreistorica.com Article

The Oldest Representations of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms

A rock art study of Saharan cave paintings from 9000-7000 years ago, including the Tassili mushroom figures, argued to b…

findplanetnine.blogspot.com Article

The Orbit of Planet Nine

The astronomers who proposed Planet Nine explain how they narrowed down its likely orbit and where in the sky it could b…

orbitalindex.com Website

The Orbital Index

A concise weekly newsletter for space nerds, curating technical news about rockets, satellites, and planetary science wi…

fifthestate.org Article

The Original Affluent Society

A 1979 Fifth Estate piece on hunter-gatherer societies and Marshall Sahlins's argument that early peoples enjoyed leisur…

thepaperark.com Image

The Paper Ark

A catalogue of over 1,500 miniature paper-cut birds, insects and wildlife by artists Nayan and Venus, including feather…

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