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- 12 nua design principletext · 200 sats · 1stThis document presents a set of architectural design rules for small residential buildings, developed through multiple construction projects. It details specific require…
- 08 seawall oral history 2061text · 200 sats · 1stA speculative fiction interview set in 2061 with a former barrier project supervisor recounting the design choices, construction failures, and rebuilding of a coastal se…
- 07 eurozone 2011text · 200 sats · 1stAn analytical account of the eurozone crisis from 2010–2012, examining its structural causes, the policy response of austerity and delayed ECB intervention, and the dist…
- 06 flash crash 2010text · 200 sats · 1stAn analytical account of the 2010 Flash Crash, explaining the market mechanics that caused a thousand-point intraday collapse and the regulatory response. It examines th…
- 01 vessel tongue lexicontext · 200 sats · 1stA constructed language spoken by a fictional maritime people living on floating platforms. It includes phonology, grammar sketch emphasizing a witnessed/unwitnessed dist…
- 09 field recording librarytext · 200 sats · 1stA curated sound-design reference library documenting invented field recordings across architectural spaces, weather, water, and mechanisms. Each entry specifies recordin…
- 05 global financial crisis 2008text · 200 sats · 1stAn analysis of the 2007–2009 financial crisis examining the policy response and its distributional consequences. It details the mechanisms of the crisis, the government'…
- 02 ltcm 1998text · 200 sats · 1stAn analytical account of the 1998 Federal Reserve-coordinated rescue of a major hedge fund, examining what triggered the crisis, how the intervention worked, and what pr…
- 08 china 2015text · 200 sats · 1stAn analytical account of China's 2015–2016 stock market crisis, covering the Shanghai Composite's rapid rise and fall, the state's interventions including trading halts…
- 11 orriston bell foundry casting booktext · 2,000 sats · 1stA fictional foundry's casting book for 1887, recording bell-making operations from April through August. It contains dated entries documenting metal charges, casting pro…
- 03 ostgate metro ridershiptext · 200 sats · 1stA synthetic weekly metro ridership dataset for a fictional 14-station city transit system, with hourly boarding counts by station, a maintenance log, and three embedded…
- 04 salt and ledger rulesettext · 200 sats · 1stA tabletop game ruleset for 2–5 players where participants act as salt merchants managing currency, debt, and position on a river. It covers game components, turn struct…
- 06 nanas ferment booktext · 200 sats · 1stWorking notes on fermentation technique covering brine ratios, specific vegetable ferments, and preservation methods. Contains precise measurements by weight, temperatur…
- 07 house at tessellate baytext · 200 sats · 1stAn architect's working journal for an unbuilt coastal house designed for a retired marine engineer. It documents the site conditions, client requirements, design solutio…
- 02 thallow light field notebooktext · 200 sats · 1stField notebook from a fictional deep-sea research survey documenting observations of bioluminescent organisms at depths of 780–1,610 metres. The entries record specific…
- 04 enron worldcom 2002text · 200 sats · 1stAn analytical essay examining the Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals of 2001–2002 and the regulatory response through Sarbanes-Oxley. It details the specific frauds…
- 01 asian crisis 1997text · 200 sats · 1stAn analytical account of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, its immediate causes in currency and maturity mismatches, and the IMF's policy response. It examines whether th…
- 03 dotcom 2000text · 200 sats · 1stAn analytical account of the dot-com crash (2000–2002), examining the mechanics of the bubble, the Federal Reserve's response, and its consequences. It traces how rate c…
- 10 correspondence two cartographerstext · 200 sats · 1stNine letters exchanged between two cartographers in 1911–1913 debating how to represent uncertainty on maps. The correspondence explores whether mapmakers can visually i…
- 05 glasswing lighthouse logtext · 200 sats · 1stA lighthouse keeper's log covering October through December, recording daily weather, operational details, oil consumption, and personnel changes at an isolated rock sta…
- 09 volmageddon 2018text · 200 sats · 1stAn analytical account of the February 2018 collapse of XIV, a volatility-linked exchange-traded note. It examines the instrument's mathematical properties, its disclosur…
- 10 covid crash 2020text · 200 sats · 1stAn analytical account of the Federal Reserve's March 2020 response to financial market dysfunction during the COVID-19 crash, examining the policy decisions made, their…