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What's That Bug?
A long-running community blog where entomology enthusiasts help identify mystery insects submitted by readers from aroun…
When Do We Stop Finding New Music?
A statistical analysis of listening data asking at what age our taste in music stops evolving, and why we drift toward t…
When Machine Learning Tells the Wrong Story
A personal story of a research project on website-fingerprinting side channels, where a machine learning result turned o…
When Will It Rain?
A simple, ad-free page that tells you when it will next rain in your area, answering the one weather question most peopl…
Whento
A UK tool that tells you the lowest-carbon time to run your electrical appliances, based on when the electricity grid is…
Where Am I?
Daniel Dennett's classic philosophical tale of a man whose brain is removed and kept in a vat while his body roams, aski…
Where Are The Jobs?
A zoomable dot map of the United States where every dot is one job, colored by sector, revealing downtown office cores,…
Where Do the Children Play?
An essay on growing up with machetes and wild places, and why children and the living world both need room to exist with…
Where does my computer get the time from?
A fascinating tour of how clocks reach your computer, from atomic clocks and GPS to NTP servers and leap seconds, writte…
Where Does The Money Go?
An interactive map by Stamen that redraws the United States by where people and their incomes move, built from IRS chang…
Where Is Roadster
A live tracker of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and Starman, launched into solar orbit in 2018, complete with tongue-in-che…
Where Is the ISS
A 3D visualizer that tracks the International Space Station as it circles the Earth, so you can see where it is right no…
Where is the ISS at?
A simple, elegant real-time map tracking the exact current location of the International Space Station as it orbits Eart…
Where Is the ISS Right Now?
A live International Space Station tracker with real-time position, visible pass predictions, current crew listings and…
Where the Renters Are
A dot density map of the United States showing where people rent and where they own their homes, with each dot standing…
Where the Shadow Fell
An atlas of 11,898 solar eclipses from 2000 BCE to 3000 CE on one globe, where you name a city and see when the shadow l…
Whitney Music Box
An animated music box inspired by John Whitney, in which dots circle at related speeds and play a note as each crosses t…
Who Is In Space
A single-purpose page that shows how many people are in space right now and who they are, kept up to date as crews chang…
Why A4? The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
An accessible essay on why A4 paper has its odd dimensions, explaining the square root of two ratio that lets every A-se…
Why Almost Everything You Thought About Running Is Wrong
A visually rich ABC News long read explaining how running works, why many people do it poorly and what better technique…
Why Are Sloths So Slow?
The Sloth Conservation Foundation explains the metabolism, diet and muscle biology behind the sloth's slow motion and wh…
Why are there 5280 feet in a mile?
A short history of how the Roman mile of 1000 paces became 5280 feet, as Elizabethan England tried to reconcile the mile…
Why are these caterpillars climbing over each other?
A science writer explains the strange rolling swarm of Amazon caterpillars caught on video, showing how the same simple…
Why Are You So Slow?
A statistician explains how a pro sprinter compares with average and good runners, using running-speed data to show just…
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