A methodology for saving and systematically reminding us of the ideas, inspirations, insights, and connections we’ve gained. It expands our memory and intellect using the modern tools of technology and networks. It's not only for preserving those ideas, but turning them into reality. 

Building a Second Brain: An Overview

When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.

The Town That Went Feral

“Plantasia at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden,” was an evening of multi-sensory experiences inspired by Mort Garson’s 1976 album Mother Earth’s Plantasia.

Celebrating Plantasia

Far Cry Primal features reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language, spoken by everyone in the game. Ubisoft hired a team of linguists who brought the ancient language into the game. 

How Far Cry Primal Brought Ancient Languages Back To Life

Allows you to explore the tree of life in a way similar to a geographic map, but using fractals

OneZoom

The most complete authoritative list of the world's species

The Catalogue of Life

Another 'map-like' explorer, it includes a lot of extinct species, but lacks further information on a lot

Lifemap

A simpler, more trimmed down understanding of the tree of life

Tree of Life Explorer

A popular data source for this kind of thing, even utilized by other members of this list, presents in a horizontal list view

Open Tree of Life

A wiki website that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, more commonly known as tropes, within many creative works.

TV Tropes

A collaborative writing wiki centered around supernatural and paranormal phenomena and the secret organization who contains this phenomena.

SCP Wiki

A site dedicated to unearthing and researching unused and cut content from video games.

The Cutting Room Floor

The Smithsonian's open access library, containing millions of digital assets under a creative commons license (you can even use them for commercial work)!

Smithsonian Open Access

A community led wiki website that categorizes and tracks down lost or hard to find media!

The Lost Media Wiki

A digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge" containing millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Internet Archive

A database of information about sampled music or sample-based music. Who sampled what songs and that sort of thing!

WhoSampled

A short, five minute game about news cycles, vicious cycles and the hold they have over us as people.

We Become What We Behold

The history of the once thriving Soviet Union synthesizer industry and their use among electronic musicians in the Soviet Union. They also highlight some of the more notable synths from this era.

USSR VS ADSR - Soviet Synths

A Bandcamp article outlining the history of Dungeon Synth and how it's evolved as a genre along with tons of listening recommendations.

A Guide Through the Darkened Passages of Dungeon Synth

A really cool guide that outlines the lore within the Elder Scrolls universe. From history to cosmology.

Elder Scrolls Lore Guide

An article that answers the fabled question in music; How many possible scales can exist?

How Many Scales Are There?

A scene report from Bandcamp that talks about the numerous underground/DIY Metal scenes in China

A Brief Guide to Metal In China

The free worldwide travel guide. An official, non-commercial sister site of Wikipedia for sightseeing, activities, cuisine and accommodation around the world.

Wikivoyage

A website that lets you listen to the sounds of different forests around the planet. A forest sound map.

Sounds of the Forest

The world's largest freely accessible database for information on musical instruments held in public collections, containing the records of 64166 instruments and rising.

MIMO - Musical Instrument Museums Online

Surf the early web again! This site allows you to view websites all across the internet, but if you were back in the days of Web 1.0!

The Old Net

An incredibly interesting article that outlines the methodology behind writing a score for a Nature Documentary.

A General Guide to the Nature Documentary Music Score

An interactive documentary that puts the casualties this world sustained during the Second World War into a chilling perspective. It's got some inaccuracies here and there, but cool none the less.

fallen.io

A large biography on the fascinating life of NBA player Manute Bol.

The Defender

An article, both bitter and sobering, that discusses how the heavy degree to which the system we have found ourselves in has shaped our daily lives and how our culture and lifestyles have been used as weapons of oppression against us.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

An interactive website that puts the staggering amount of wealth a small group of people in our society have into perspective. Do you know what the difference between a million and a billion dollars is? About a billion dollars.

1 Pixel Wealth

The cybernetics program in Salvador Allende's Chile, in which they used a combination of supercomputing and primitive machine learning to create a highly efficient decision support system for resource distribution, very similar to the systems used by corporations such as Walmart and Amazon today.

Nineteen Seventy Three

Another brief synopsis on Project Cybersyn

Project Cybersyn

An academic research paper that dives further into the details and technical makeup of Chile's Project Cybersyn.

Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation

Fractals are fascinating structures characterized by self-similarity and infinite complexity. Their presence is pervasive in nature, art, and computer-generated graphics, with applications spanning diverse fields. This essay examines the mathematical principles behind fractals, their generation through iterative algorithms, and how they have revolutionized computer graphics and complex systems modelling.

Fractals: A Mathematical and Technical Exploration of Infinite Complexity

A musical study on how the Pentatonic Scale Guided the Evolution of Contemporary Classical Music. It's commonly known of it's influence on traditional musics and music as a whole, but seldom is spoken of it's influence on European Common Practice music.

Five Notes

 A procedural music generator that doesn't require any musical knowledge to generate music.

Abundant Music

A webcomic that talks about how different upbringings and environments shape a person's future from birth and the false perception people have on working hard being a guarantee for success.

The Pencilsword: On a plate

A study on musical genre as a whole coupled with an analysis of Spotify's genre statistics.

Every Noise At Once Genre Study

An article about an experiment Microsoft did with a 4-day work week in its Japan office that saw productivity jump by 40%.

Microsoft Japan's 4-day work week study

 An examination of the first documented gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

The Protected Class

An article that examines and explains the history of the fairy painting, a specific trope found throughout art.

Richard Dadd and the magical genre of Victorian fairy painting

A study in cross-cultural psychology that examines the differences in how the west and the east view emotional nuance in their lives.

Do Chinese People Lead More Nuanced Emotional Lives?

An essay on the pandemic of untreated mental illness that plagues our country and world at large, as well as how it effects us on an individual level.

Untreated Mental Illnesses: The Causes and Effects

A simple physical system that exhibits rich dynamic and chaotic behavior with a strong sensitivity to initial conditions.

Double Pendulum Playground

An webpage that's all about the first 108 key piano that has ever been constructed, called The Beleura

108 Keys

A fantasy author talks about why they write fantasy and why it's important for young readers.

Why Fantasy Matters

A large collection of easy-to-follow templates for folding your own boxes, frames, bags, envelopes, trays and more!

Template Maker

How long are your favorite video games? HowLongToBeat has the answer.

HowLongToBeat

Test your browser to see how well you are protected from tracking and fingerprinting

Cover Your Tracks

A musical analysis of the top 100 tracks on Beatport, an electronic music outlet

Beatport Analysis

Optimal viewing distances to see benefits of High Resolution TV/Monitors

TV/Monitor Viewing Distance Calculator

Bathory mainman Quorthon pioneered black metal and Viking metal. But he was an enigma in life and death.

Bathory: the triumph and tragedy of the man who invented black metal

An article in which a touring Metal musician outlines the harsh reality of economic struggle that comes with being a full time musician.

Mastodon Guitarist Talks Economic Realities of Band Life

A write-up on the history of how restrictive firearms legislation has been used numerous times in the United State's
past to oppress racial minority groups.

The Racist Roots of Gun Control

An article on how Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' found its way into Chinese culture.

From Middle-earth to the Middle Kingdom

An article discussing the immense ceremony in Russia commemorating veterans of the Great Patriotic War (the eastern front of the second world war).

How Russia keeps the memory of heroes of the Great Patriotic War alive

A short piece of writing from the same author as '1 Pixel Wealth' that dispels the notion that "the wealth gap does not exist because no one that rich could afford to liquidate their assets!". One of the most educational and informing pieces i've read for being so short.

The Paper Billionaire Argument

An article discussing paradox of tolerance, in which if one is tolerant of intolerance, intolerance inevitably stifles
tolerance.

Tolerance is not a moral precept

A new discipline called complex systems theory uses scientific approaches to understand and predict social issues. This emerging field gives us concepts and tools to help us navigate our world, which is growing more connected and therefore more challenging to navigate.

Complex Systems Theory: How Science Solves Social Issues

Discover 400+ popular open source alternatives to your proprietary SaaS

Open Source Alternative To

A must have if you are over the age of 25 and still want to keep up with understanding current slang.

Urban Dictionary

A bone-chilling exposé by Edwin Black on the pivotal role that IBM played in the computerization of the Holocaust, and the millions of dollars in profit they made off of these atrocities.

IBM and the Holocaust

An incredibly robust resource on alternate musical tunings, how they work and even guides on dipping your toes in on how to play within them and on how harmony moves within them.

Xenharmonic Wiki

An article discussing the poor paleo-art around dinosaurs and the misconceptions they have lead to. Dinosaurs didn't look how Jurassic Park told us they did!

Dinosaurs and the Anti-Shrink-Wrapping Revolution

When 500 Indigenous Americans Chased The Ku Klux Klan Out Of North Carolina

Inside The Battle of Hayes Pond

MetaRack

An interactive educational resource on most major genres of music and their descendants and predecessors!

musicmap

An interactive website focusing specifically on the evolution of Metal music!

Map of Metal

An interactive website focusing specifically on the evolution of Electronic music!

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

A website that scrapes large amounts of music from Spotify and sorts them into their niche sub genres for you to explore.

Every Noise at Once

An interactive map of Skyrim, one of the provinces that is central to the Elder Scrolls franchise. 

Interactive Skyrim Map

The paintings, maps and illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Tolkien's Paintings

A completely free (and well written) online music theory text book written for learning music in the context of the modern day, by Robert Hutchinson.

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

An interactive map of Middle Earth, which lets you view events, points of interest, timelines, paths taken by characters and much more!

LOTR Project

A music streaming website that focuses on music from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)

Juchify

Privacy Tools

An educational website full of pictures, illustrations, videos and more explaining the ins and outs of how automobiles function. 

How a Car Works

A historical article that catalogues the rich history of storytelling, parlor games, war gaming and tabletop role-playing that D&D traces its roots through. 

RPGs were around hundreds of years before D&D

An interactive online dataset, which allows you to view the most common patterns and trends within chord progressions, as analyzed from the Hook Theory dataset

Hook Theory Chord Progression Trends

There is a path laid by those who have come before. You can walk it or you can run it. There is no speed limit. Creating new things (research or art) is what takes time. 

There's no speed limit

Thousands of AI for hundreds of different tasks

There's An AI For That

An article all about what constitutes 'Free and Open Source Software'. 

What is FOSS? 

Medicare for All Would Cover Everyone, Save Money and End Medical Debt, The Numbers Don't Lie

Medicare for All Would Save the U.S. Trillions

The narrative wrongfully portrays both Beijing and the developing countries it deals with.

The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth

Botswana’s heavy metal culture gets hyped for all the wrong reasons, but, beneath the surface is a DIY subculture uncorrupted by the outside world.

The hell bangers of Botswana’s underground metal scene

A philosophic writing that offers an alternative perspective on creativity to help us see it as a standard thing that everybody participates in, rather than an extraordinary gift only enjoyed by a few.

To be creative, Chinese philosophy teaches us to abandon ‘originality‘

An educational, non-profit that documents both legal and illegal psychoactive substances, citing published literature, experts in related fields, and the experiences of the general public. They act as a publisher and a library.

Erowid

Have you ever left a Halo title running on your TV, just to listen to and watch the main menu? Now you can relive your favorite Halo title menu in your browser. 

HALOME.NU

A short read, which describes the manner in which all programming philosophies are concerned with state.

All Programming Philosophies Are About State 

An interactive map that lets you explore any date in the history of human civilization from 3000BC to today.

Running Reality

The ESA's top 100 images from the Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble's Top 100

The results of the ESA's competition for astronomers, both amateur and professional, to submit their picks for the best deep cut from Hubble's image archive. 

Hubble's Hidden Treasures

A new picture, every week, from Hubble's image archive

Hubble's Picture of the Week

Cyberpunk once stood out as a vital genre of anti-capitalist fiction. Now, it’s been reduced to a cool retro aesthetic easily appropriated by the world’s richest man to sell ugly Blade Runner–esque trucks.

Cyberpunk Needs a Reboot

A National Geographic article that investigates the notion that some people have that animals do not think or feel (crazy if you ask me). 

Animals Think And Feel. Here's How We Know.

A scientific research paper that goes into detail on the roots that most crimes have in poverty

Is poverty the mother of crime? 

An interactive, educational website which highlights how undemocratic the United States really is and how broken the electoral system is

What's Your Vote Worth?

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