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What Does Hearing Loss Sound Like?
An interactive essay with an audio slider that lets you hear music as it sounds at different ages, simulating how hearin…
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What Happened with LEGO
A charts-heavy analysis of LEGO sets over decades, asking whether bricks got pricier, pieces got smaller and kits got mo…
What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin
A Nautilus feature on a decade-old study in which clergy from many faiths took psilocybin, and what their spiritual expe…
What if Eye...?
An MIT research project that evolves artificial agents inside video-game worlds to replay millions of years of evolution…
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What If I Were 1% Charged?
A physicist works out, with back-of-envelope math, what would happen if your body carried a 1% imbalance of electric cha…
What If? by xkcd
Randall Munroe answers absurd hypothetical questions with real physics and math.
What I'm Not Going to Do
A science writer's list of the cliches she refuses to use when profiling a woman scientist, the essay that gave rise to…
What Is a Control System Anyway?
An explainer where you fly a little 2D quadcopter with your arrow keys, then watch simple controllers try to steer it to…
What is a Day?
An interactive astronomy lesson on why a day is not simply 24 hours, letting you spin planets and watch how sidereal and…
What Is a Zero Refractive Index Material?
A physicist explains what happens to light in a material with refractive index zero, where waves stop oscillating in spa…
What is energy, actually?
Jean-Marc Jancovici explains in plain language what energy physically is, why it means transformation of the environment…
What Is Gridification?
A 50-year analysis of Billboard hits showing how studio tools gradually snapped human performances onto a perfect grid,…
What Is Heat?
A readable Northwestern educational page on what heat is and how spacecraft control it, part of a larger thermal systems…
What Is Missing?
Maya Lin's global memorial to the planet, a map of memories of vanished species, places and abundance that also shares w…
What Is Spacetime, Really?
Stephen Wolfram marks 100 years of general relativity with an illustrated essay proposing that space and time emerge fro…
What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years
The full text of a 1900 Ladies Home Journal piece predicting life in 2000, from mobile phones and color photography to v…
What really has a 1 in a million chance?
A Berkeley statistician's playful classroom topic: sort out which everyday events genuinely have one-in-a-million odds,…
What Sort of Thing a Brain Is
A short note by Nate Soares on what kind of thing a brain is, a specialty device shaped by evolution, written as backgro…
What Was the CO2 When You Were Born?
Enter your birth date and see the atmospheric CO2 level on the day you were born, a quick way to feel how much the clima…
WhatBird
An interactive bird identification tool that narrows down a species from field marks, size, color, and location entered…
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What's a fire, and why does it burn?
A mathematician stares at a beach bonfire, realizes he does not understand fire, and works out what flames really are, w…
What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
A curious, well-sourced look at whether ants outweigh humans and which living group really tops Earth's biomass, with te…
What's My JND?
A colour perception game that finds your just noticeable difference, showing how small a colour change you can actually…
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What's new - Terence Tao
The blog of mathematician Terence Tao, mixing research updates, expository essays, open problems and accessible musings…
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