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A solar-powered website that can go offline in bad weather, publishing long, careful articles on old and low-energy technologies.
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Low-tech Magazine sits in Curious Facts under Learn, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Records, comparisons, scale demonstrations and weird knowledge. The category most likely to produce a sentence beginning "did you know".
Yes. Low-tech Magazine is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Low-tech Magazine without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Low-tech Magazine as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
Trivia and origin stories written for the sort of person who reads the plaque next to the exhibit.
One well-sourced strange story per weekday, told at exactly the length of a cup of coffee.
Converts your scrolling into real distance and tells you what you have just passed — a giraffe, the Eiffel Tower, low Earth orbit.
The original rumour desk, still patiently establishing whether the thing your uncle forwarded actually happened.
The best-known brain-training subscription, with a free daily set of games and rather a lot of graphs about your own decline.
The official Escher archive: the impossible staircases, the tessellations, and his own notes on how he worked them out.
Zoom into the Mandelbrot set as far as the arithmetic allows, with palette controls and no plugin to install.
The manga-side release tracker, covering scanlation status and licensing across tens of thousands of series since 2001.
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