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  • A trawler, escort and launch beside the wooden piers at Tern Yard. 18 Oct 2026

    Widewake

    Trade along the waterways of Bracken Reach and grow a convoy. Your fishing boats work while you keep the raiders off. My sea-trading game in progress.

  • Bubble Buddy, one of the selected characters in the fight vote. 9 Oct 2026

    Bikini Bottom Showdown

    Officer Nancy or Billy Fishkin? Vote through ten chosen SpongeBob matchups and see the percentage and number of responses for each pair.

  • A worker and yellow forklift beside the office in The Warehouse Simulator. 4 Oct 2026

    The Warehouse Simulator

    Start with $600 and an empty warehouse. Scan, receive, store and ship real cartons with your handheld and office WMS, or work a stocked warehouse in Sandbox.

  • Dark vortex cores in a luminous elliptical superfluid, computed by the live wave solver. 3 Oct 2026

    Negative temperature

    Two paddles stir a live superfluid. Dark vortex cores move through the luminous field and collect into groups with matching circulation.

  • Cyan, violet and pink density contours form two bright lobes around a ring, with a soft shadow beneath. 3 Oct 2026

    Hydrogen Exactly

    Turn a hydrogen electron's probability cloud in 3D. Watch an excited wave packet spread, split into peaks, and partly return; hover over its colored layers to read their density.

  • Gold, blue and coral dye curling into ribbons in a live two-dimensional fluid. 3 Oct 2026

    Undertow

    Stir a live fluid. Gold, blue and coral dye stretch into ribbons and fold around vortices; drag to push the flow and add more dye.

  • The twisted trunk of a bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains. 2 Oct 2026

    How Long Can You Live?

    One verified person has lived past 120. How unlikely another birthday becomes at 110, and what a calorie-restriction trial actually measured.

  • An oil-painted birch meadow seen from inside a wooden hunting stand, with deer crossing the open grass. 30 Sep 2026

    Hunting Game

    my Unity hunting game, rebuilt in JavaScript. Pick an hour, walk to the stand, and bring back a pack to sell. Wind, blood trails, a tracking dog, and a second area to earn.

  • A silver pixel-art shopping cart on a dirt track with grass shoulders, guardrails and red and white racing curbs. 29 Sep 2026

    All Four Wheels

    a cart with four swivel wheels on the long way round. Dirt, blacktop, red and white curbs, and a shortcut through the groceries. See how far you can get.

  • Three vertical panels show colorful soft-body slimes compressed into a tall stack, a blue water splash curling through airborne particles, and dense white smoke swirling on black. 17 Jul 2026

    Water, Smoke, and Slime

    a physics toy built from my mining game's three engines: GPU water, soft-body slimes, and real fluid smoke in one box. Draw walls and everything collides with them.

  • A map of Saint Paul with public storm-pipe routes inside the city boundary. 12 Jul 2026

    What's Under a Saint Paul Street

    Explore Saint Paul storm pipes, sewers, hydrants, cables and geology, with public records and photographs of mapped places.

  • A supercell thunderstorm towering over a dirt road through flat farmland. 12 Jul 2026

    How far can we forecast the weather?

    An illustrated tour of the physics, observations, and uncertainty behind weather forecasts, with ensembles, changing forecast horizons, and a live Lorenz model you can adjust.

  • A man and three boys sailing a small boat in Winslow Homer's Breezing Up (A Fair Wind). 9 Jul 2026

    The Work After the Sale

    The software is live, but a supervisor still copies orders into a spreadsheet. Customer success starts by finding that gap and helping the customer get the result they bought.

  • A green title card reading Claude Recommends over the words music, movies and TV. 3 Jul 2026

    Claude Recommends

    I asked Claude for music, films and television to try. Browse its selections, read short descriptions, and copy music names into a playlist importer for matching.

  • Saturn seen from its shadow, a dark globe rimmed with sunlight inside luminous gold and blue rings. 2 Jul 2026

    The Other Side

    A cup needs both clay and empty space. My reading of the Tao Te Ching starts with that dependence, then asks what it might mean for the self.

  • The bowed bearded head and massive shoulders of the Farnese Hercules, an ancient marble statue. 21 Jun 2026 · Collection · 4 posts

    Staying Alive

    How to take care of the one body you get: muscle, the heart, food, sleep, and the rest. The actionable science, with the hype stripped off.

  • Gustave Caillebotte's painting Paris Street; Rainy Day: Parisians under umbrellas crossing a wet cobblestone intersection on an overcast day. 21 Jun 2026

    Do You Get Used to Everything?

    Why some sensations fade while losses still matter. A visual experiment and evidence from lottery winners, chocolate eaters and chess players separate several kinds of getting used to things.

  • An illuminated page of the Guru Granth Sahib, with Gurmukhi script framed by orange, blue, and gold flowers. 20 Jun 2026 · Collection · 9 posts

    The Sacred Books

    Read beyond the familiar verses. From the Torah to the Guru Granth Sahib, these posts follow what each book says and where its English translations disagree.

  • Rembrandt's painting of Aristotle resting a hand on a bust of Homer. 20 Jun 2026 · Collection · 14 posts

    How to Think, and What's Real

    How to think and what is real, from Plato and Aristotle to Darwin and Deutsch, each argument walked one move at a time, the dissenters kept in.

  • A Chola-period granite statue of the Buddha seated in meditation. 20 Jun 2026 · Collection · 12 posts

    The Inner Life

    Meaning, the mind, and how to bear a life: Frankl, the spirituality of imperfection, and the truth about every kind of meditation.

  • The first image of a black hole: a glowing orange ring of hot gas around a dark center, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2019. 20 Jun 2026

    The Physics That Sounds Made Up

    Clocks, gravity, interference and entanglement, explained through experiments and annotated diagrams. An illustrated guide to modern physics that distinguishes what was measured from what remains unsettled.

  • A 19th-century painting of the neurologist Charcot presenting a fainting woman to a room of physicians at a Paris asylum. 20 Jun 2026

    The DSM: What a Diagnosis Can Tell You

    What a psychiatric diagnosis can tell you, where biological tests help, and why clinicians sometimes disagree. A sourced guide to common conditions, diagnostic boundaries and useful questions.

  • A red and blue parrot perched on a branch in a Chinese painting. 18 Jun 2026

    The Zhuangzi

    A crooked tree survives because nobody wants its wood. Zhuangzi asks how to live when our judgments, plans, and ideas about ourselves stop fitting the world.

  • An 18th-century engraving of a human skeleton seen from behind, one arm outstretched, standing before a rhinoceros in a stone-walled courtyard. 18 Jun 2026

    The Far Side of the Body

    Rare conditions separate abilities we usually experience together. Twenty-one cases explore pain, sleep, memory and movement, with each study's limits kept beside the findings it can support.

  • Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog: a lone figure on a summit looking out over peaks in mist. 17 Jun 2026

    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

    Covey separates choosing what matters from making time for it. His seven habits explain personal responsibility, trust, listening, and cooperation, with practical examples and the limits beside them.

  • An old star chart of the zodiac, taken apart by real astronomy. 13 Jun 2026

    Star Signs, X-Rayed

    An approximate birth chart, a generic reading, and a blinded matching test separate celestial positions, astrological conventions, and claims about personality. Try the controls and compare the evidence.

  • An old illustration evoking that every age believes it is the strangest one. 11 Jun 2026

    There's Nothing New Under the Sun

    Old complaints, imperfect happiness studies, and twelve versions of advice about other people. An illustrated essay on what repeats in human life, and what doesn't.

  • An ancient temple illustrating the question of inherited religious traditions. 11 Jun 2026

    Five Hundred Children, No Books

    Would children invent religion without inheriting one? An island thought experiment meets child psychology, AA, the Americas and secular rites, with the evidence's limits beside each case.

  • A montage of famous photographs across two centuries. 10 Jun 2026

    Photographs and how they were made

    A gallery of motion studies, portraits and space images, with explanations of exposure, color, composites and retouching, plus working comparisons, panoramas and credits for every photograph.

  • Detail of Quentin Massys's painting of a moneylender weighing coins beside his wife. 10 Jun 2026

    The Number: How Much Would You Need to Retire?

    How much would you need to stop working? A calculator connects spending, debt and saving time, while the withdrawal research and tax rules show what its estimate leaves out.

  • An engraving of a winged serpent biting its own tail. 9 Jun 2026

    Sure Things, Open Questions

    Eighteen illustrated questions about the universe, matter, minds and proof. Each separates established mechanisms from the narrower question still open, with sources and image credits beside the claim.

  • A grid of clickbait chum thumbnails from the bottom of a web page. 4 Jun 2026

    A Field Guide to Internet Chum

    Those “Around the Web” thumbnails are often paid placements. Ten familiar designs explain what the picture withholds, who earns the click, and when the promise becomes deception.

  • A bare baby gazes up and reaches to touch the chin of a young mother who bends close, from Mary Cassatt's pastel Baby's First Caress. 2 Jun 2026

    The First Year

    Feeding, sleep, illness and safety through a baby's first year, with a short practical route, source-linked reference chapters and tools for preparing questions for the care team.

  • A grayscale MRI slice from the published brain series. 31 May 2026

    What's Actually on an MRI Disc

    I asked for my MRI on a disc and got 1,189 image files. Browse selected brain and spine slices, then rotate two models and see what their processing changes.

  • Rows of stacked shipping containers with blue, turquoise, red, and yellow doors. 30 May 2026

    The Brain Behind the Warehouse

    Stock on a shelf may already belong to another order. Warehouse software tracks what's available and directs each move, from receiving a delivery to putting a parcel on a truck.

  • A high-resolution photograph of a silicon computer chip. 30 May 2026

    From the Machine to the Atom

    Factory photographs and micrographs follow silicon from crystal growth to chip wiring and atomic columns, with sixteen zoomable images and explanations of what each device and scale reveals.

  • A service dog, the lens for a piece on nature, nurture, and the self. 30 May 2026

    The Third Thing: What We Choose

    Genes and upbringing shape us without settling every choice. Service dogs, twin research and an old court ruling help separate inherited risk from moral responsibility.

  • Two oarsmen racing across calm water in Thomas Eakins's The Biglin Brothers Racing. 29 May 2026

    All In: Managing Professionals

    People can meet every requirement and still hold back their best work. Managing professionals means making room for judgment while staying clear about responsibility and the problems you need solved.

  • Sluice logo with stone, a smoking furnace, green slime, bathhouse lanterns, and water flowing from the E. 25 Apr 2026

    Sluice

    my own 2D mining game, free forever and playable right in the browser. Dig down, collect ore, sell it for fuel and upgrades, then go deeper. No win screen, just a deeper hole and a heavier haul.

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