Stuff worth reading and playing with.
Interactive explainers and deep-dive tools on the arguments actually shaping the economy — built to be explored, not just skimmed. New pieces land here regularly.
Yard Market
Supply and demand without starting from two lines crossing. You get a lumber yard with boards standing in it and a job site with houses on it, and the prices, shortages and surpluses emerge from the stock and who is willing to trade. Every shock freezes the old price first, so a shortage is an empty stall and a buyer walking away before it is ever a number — and the lumber price reaches the housing market on its own, because every house is 30 thousand board feet of it.
The Political Spectrum Visualizer
Answer six questions and watch yourself land inside a political space you can spin — then watch twenty traditions and sixty real figures, from Caesar and the founders to Marx, Thatcher, Obama and Trump, sort themselves around you. Collapse the cube back to the familiar left–right line and see how much that line was hiding.
The Big Five Personality Test
The public-domain IPIP-NEO in three lengths — a four-minute screener, the standard 120, or the full 300 — scored against Johnson's norm tables for your age and sex. All thirty facets, error bars on every meter, and a results card built to be shared. Nothing you answer leaves your browser.
The Data Center Question
46 arguments about data centers, for and against, matched side by side — each one expandable, with the numbers attached and the strongest reply from the other side written underneath it. Mark the ones that move you and a scale keeps score.