Articles by areoform
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Powder and stone, or, why medieval rulers loved castles (1517.substack.com)

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Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024) (medium.com/atari-club)

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Limnic Eruption (wikipedia.org)

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Royal Investigations of the Origin of Language (researchgate.net)

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Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? (animebythenumbers.substack.com)

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Joseph Bazalgette (wikipedia.org)

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Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) (wikipedia.org)

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Laurie Spiegel's Expanding Universe (crackmagazine.net)

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A renovation project in Turkey led to the discovery of a lost city (2023) (atlasobscura.com)

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Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (medium.com/atari-club)

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Total Body Disruption (wikipedia.org)

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Hanako-San (wikipedia.org)

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When Lee Miller Took a Bath in Hitler's Tub (newyorker.com)

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Google offers buyouts to employees across the company, including Search (cnbc.com)

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US authorities are collecting DNA information of children in criminal database (theguardian.com)

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Palace: 3D Finite Element Solver for Computational Electromagnetics (awslabs.github.io)

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MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that's also a magnet (news.mit.edu)

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Revisiting the algorithm that changed horse race betting (2023) (actamachina.com)

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Sims, BattleBots, Cellular Automata God and Go (2001) (gamestudies.org)

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US Bans Harvard from Enrolling Foreigners, Forcing Transfers (bloomberg.com)

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Ask HN: Engineering Statics and Dynamics book recommendation

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"No longer able to purchase reagents using NIH grants at Harvard Medical School" (reddit.com)

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New computers don't speed up old code [video] (youtube.com)

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Harvard's unofficial copy of Magna Carta is an original, experts say (theguardian.com)

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"How did porcelain go from a rare luxury to a commodity?" (reddit.com)

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Women in the Age of Polar Exploration (jstor.org)

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Why Bell Labs Worked (1517.substack.com)

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British Baseball (wikipedia.org)

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What Is an "Author"?-Copyright Authorship of AI Art Through a Philosophical Lens (houstonlawreview.org)

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Roud Folk Song Index (wikipedia.org)

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Clotaire Rapaille got Japan to drink coffee (pbs.org)

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Silicone–Epoxy-Based Hybrid Photopolymers for 3D Printing (wiley.com)

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The Making of Future Man (nybooks.com)

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The "Indomitable" MRI (smithsonianmag.com)

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[flagged] Trump's Police Are Now Disappearing Students for Their Op-Eds (techdirt.com)

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Physicists show how Vikings could have used calcite to navigate to North America (science.org)

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vs. Outside Context Problems. Or, why smart people make bad predictions (1517.substack.com)

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Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter (2015) (telegraph.co.uk)

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The Imaginary Engineer – Karl Hans Janke's Flights of Fancy (cabinetmagazine.org)

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The quest to find and save the Vasa (2019) (mentalfloss.com)

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Only bad poems go viral (donotresearch.substack.com)

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Glow in the Dark Bunnies Coming to a Pet Store Near You... Finally. (corememory.com)

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T.E.M.P.E.S.T. – NSA Specification (wikipedia.org)

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Superbomb Mystery: The Herrhausen Assassination (wired.com)

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Caltech's Cannon-Launched Squid Drone Doubles in Size, Goes Autonomous (ieee.org)

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Building an Omni-Directional Lego Treadmill [video] (youtube.com)

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We Built the Saturn V (2017) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Building an Actual Flaming Sword [video] (youtube.com)

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Why so many Americans prefer sprawl to walkable neighborhoods (washingtonpost.com)

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Terminal Lucidity (wikipedia.org)

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Trump Picks Billionaire Who Did Private Space Walk to Lead NASA (bloomberg.com)

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Not a wonderful world: Louis Armstrong tapes reveal how racism scarred his life (theguardian.com)

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Ice Cream Helped America at War (theatlantic.com)

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Lessons from Sematech (technologyreview.com)

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A Comparison of Obsidian and Surgical Steel Scalpel Wound Healing in Rats (lww.com)

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Detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing (arxiv.org)

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Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isn't Better (nytimes.com)

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What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? (twitter.com/paulnovosad)

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Power Struggle – The Battery Power Meter and Its Patent Battle (tedium.co)

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A Synthetic Genetic Edge Detection Program (cell.com)

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The Brain of the Greatest Solo Climber (nautil.us)

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Lego Institute for Lego Investigation (norvig.com)

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An Analysis of SpaceX's Eva Suit (threadreaderapp.com)

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Opinion: Lauding Lise Meitner, Who Said 'No' to the Atomic Bomb (undark.org)

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Can Eating Yeast Keep You from Getting Drunk? (seriouseats.com)

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Starliner crew reports hearing "sonar like noises" (arstechnica.com)

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Garden Hermit (wikipedia.org)

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Euler Spiral / Clothoid – An Illustrated Explanation (xixixao.github.io)

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Quest for the Perfect Afterburner Photo (airfighters.com)

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Time Bandits (newyorker.com)

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Yamashita's Gold (wikipedia.org)

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Exploring the mysterious alphabet of sperm whales (news.mit.edu)

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Lab mice might be doing their own experiments (popsci.com)

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Loki, Gender, and Sexuality in Norse Society (norsemythology.substack.com)

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The Visible Human Project (nih.gov)

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Trembling Hand Perfect Equilibrium (wikipedia.org)

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How to Make a Three-Pendulum Rotary Harmonograph (karlsims.com)

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2E = Gummy Bears, Lockpicking and Aerospace with Teens (1517.substack.com)

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Not a Democracy, It's a Cheerocracy: The Cheerleading Monopoly (thebignewsletter.com)

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Minuteman D-17B: The Desktop Computer Was Born in an ICBM [video] (youtube.com)

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Vietnam Tycoon LAN Sentenced to Death over $12B Fraud (bloomberg.com)

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The Story Behind Pixar’s RenderMan CGI Software (ieee.org)

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Design fiction 1/2/3 by Casey Cripe (socks-studio.com)

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Who Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery? (ieee.org)

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Fusor Project – Inertial Electrostic Confinement Fusion (teslaboys.com)

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Long-Term Experiment (wikipedia.org)

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"This was so commonplace that nobody wrote it down and now it's lost" (reddit.com)

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Apex Legends finals postponed after suffering unprecedented hack (polygon.com)

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The Legacies of the Atomic Bomb in Anime (the-artifice.com)

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The Unsettling Truth About the 'Mostly Harmless' Hiker (wired.com)

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The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016) (ieee.org)

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Slim Moon Landing Live and Press Conference [video] (youtube.com)

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When Brute Force Transmitters Ruled the Air (radioworld.com)

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Simulating Biology in Other Dimensions [video] (youtube.com)

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The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation of the Transavia AirTruk (smithsonianmag.com)

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Natural Experiment (wikipedia.org)

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'Steamboat Willie' is now in the public domain. What does that mean for Mickey? (npr.org)

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Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Powered Cart (2021) (selmec.org.uk)

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Autonomous Vehicles Sensors and Their Vulnerability to Weather Conditions (mdpi.com)

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A computer in her brain changed her life. Then she was forced to get it removed (miamiherald.com)