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Vox - Understand the News
Explanatory news site that breaks down politics, policy, science, and culture to help readers understand the news.
VoxDev
A research-to-policy platform where development economists summarize their findings in short, readable articles aimed at…
What Do Visa and Mastercard Do?
A clear introduction to how card networks work, who pays whom when you tap a card, and why interchange fees exist, writt…
What does an idle CPU do?
A clear, illustrated explainer of what happens inside a computer when there is nothing to run - the idle task, the halt…
What is energy, actually?
Jean-Marc Jancovici explains in plain language what energy physically is, why it means transformation of the environment…
What is HDR, anyway?
A clear, illustrated explainer from the Halide camera team on what HDR actually means, why photos and screens confuse pe…
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 Up With All Those Equals Signs?
Explains why old emails quoted online are littered with equals signs, tracing the mystery to quoted-printable encoding a…
Why Do Electronic Components Have Such Odd Values?
A clear explainer on why resistors and capacitors come in values like 4.7 and 22, the E-series preferred numbers and the…
Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?
A clear explainer on track ballast, the crushed stone beside railway tracks, covering how it spreads load, drains water,…
Why Haven't Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet?
Craig Gidney explains why quantum computers factored 15 in 2001 but still have not factored 21, and what that really say…
Why is 56k the fastest dialup modem speed?
A clear, nostalgic explanation of why dial-up modems topped out at 56k, covering phone line bandwidth, sampling limits a…
Why is the sky blue?
An explainer that goes beyond the name Rayleigh scattering to actually show why the sky is blue and sunsets are red, eve…
Why Semi-Trucks in the US and Europe Are So Different
An illustrated explainer on why American semi-trucks have long noses while European ones are flat-fronted cab-overs, cov…
Wi is Fi
A long, carefully maintained guide that explains Wi-Fi 4 through 8, channels, bandwidth and range in plain language so y…
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