🔗 Finds #3

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #3 of Finds — the articles, sites, and rabbit holes I bookmarked this week (plus one show I finished):

📄 Articles

damninteresting.comThe Forgotten FireOn the same night in 1871 as the Great Chicago Fire, a far deadlier firestorm swallowed the Wisconsin logging town of Peshtigo, killing over 1,200 people. It's the deadliest wildfire in U.S. history — and almost nobody remembers it, because Chicago took the headlines.

plato.stanford.eduJapanese Aesthetics — A guided tour through six ideas at the heart of Japanese aesthetics — mono no aware, wabi, sabi, yūgen, iki, and kire — and how a culture built beauty out of impermanence and imperfection.

🌐 Websites / blogs

atlasobscura.comAtlas ObscuraA crowd-built gazetteer of 24,000+ curious and wondrous places — hidden ruins, roadside oddities, and strange local foods — each with the story of why it's worth the detour.

teachmeanatomy.infoTeachMeAnatomyA polished, free human-anatomy reference: 600+ doctor-reviewed articles, 750+ 3D models, and a quiz bank, all organised by body region. The site med students actually keep open in a tab.

howdoesacarwork.comHow a Car Works — A free, illustrated course on everything under the hood — engines, brakes, transmissions, suspension — explained from first principles with clear diagrams and videos.

bitburner-official.github.ioBitburner — A free, open-source incremental game where you progress by actually writing JavaScript to automate hacking your way through a cyberpunk network — programming practice disguised as an idle game.

📚 From Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.orgMoo shu pork — The northern-Chinese stir-fry whose name poetically renames its scrambled egg "sweet osmanthus blossoms" — a euphemism born from a taboo on the word "egg" during Confucian death-anniversary rites.

📺 Completed

myanimelist.netDandadan (Seasons 1 & 2) — 9/10 — A sci-fi occult action-comedy where a girl who believes in ghosts and a boy who believes in aliens both turn out to be right — and get dragged into both worlds at once. Gorgeous animation, unhinged energy, and genuinely funny.

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🌱 Filed in the wiki: every link this week has a topic page you can find it in later — Philosophy · History · Travel · Anatomy · Engines · Games · Food · Anime. 🗂️ Catch up on past issues.