• Has artificial intelligence cracked the Voynich Manuscript’s mysterious code?
  with miscellany
• Have I been pwned?
  "Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach"
  with computers-and-it by 6 users
• Health data
  xkcd
  with humour
• Heathhall car factory, Dumfries
  Former Arrol-Johnston Car Co. Ltd factory.
  with buildings-and-architecture
• Helen Levitt
  with image-galleries photography
• Help with your research
  The National Archives
  with history
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
  with image-galleries photography
• Henry Bliss, America’s first pedestrian fatality, was hit by an electric taxi
  with electric-vehicles
• Hex color : The code side of color
  "Don’t let the code intimidate you. With a little creativity, hex colors are a tool at your disposal."
  with art-and-design colour
• Historic inflation calculator : How the value of money has changed since 1900
  "This calculator lets you see what money used to be worth between 1900 and 2022."
  with history
• Home Office Open Document Format adoption plan (2015)
  "In July 2014 the government adopted the Open Document Format (ODF) as its single standard for 'sharing and collaborating'."
  with computers-and-it
• Homerisms
  Figures of speech from "The Simpsons".
  with humour language-and-literature
• How do cryptocurrencies work?
  BBC Click
  with computers-and-it
• How do you decode a hapax? (Also, What’s a hapax?)
  "It’s a word that only appears once in a work, author’s oeuvre, or an entire language’s written record."
  with language-and-literature
• How shit happens
  "In the beginning, there was a plan. And then came the assumptions..."
  with humour
• How snake oil became a symbol of fraud and deception
  with miscellany
• How the idea of a ‘normal’ person got invented
  "The notion that there is a 'normal' height or a 'normal' salary is a relatively new one, and it's had a profound effect on how people think about each other and themselves." (Plus Adolphe Quetelet and 5,738 Scottish soldiers.)
  with miscellany
• How the index card cataloged the world
  "Carl Linnaeus, the father of biological taxonomy, also had a hand in inventing this tool for categorizing anything."
  with cataloguing-and-metadata by 2 users
• How the quintessential villain's melody snuck into the popular consciousness
  "...the Mysterioso Pizzicato is a musical go-to for sneaky situations, forever associated with thieves, creeps, stalkers and spies." (dum-dum-dum-dum-daaaaaaaa-dum-dum-dum-dum)
  with miscellany
• How to choose the right face for a beautiful body
  "What is it that makes a typeface into a text font, instead of a font for larger sizes?"
  with typography

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