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24 alternatives to The Memory Palace - Lost lobsters

The story of the lobster from sea pest to delicacy

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Memory Palace - Lost lobsters launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
99% Invisible - 186: War and Pizza▲73
The revolution of food preservation
2015 · its alternatives →
2
How Humans Learned to Cross the Ocean▲115
A new story from Hardbound
2016 · its alternatives →
3
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life ▲61
William Finnegan's memoir on surfing
2015 · its alternatives →
4
A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in▲493
I've been working on Recall for a while now, it had some initial traction in the beginning which has since died down now. I am facing the inevitable question of whether to continue with the project. I just put out a new release and it would be helpful to get advice from the community on what they think of the idea and my implementation.
2022 · recall-app.com · its alternatives →
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A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine▲423
A while ago I was looking for information on a obscure and short lived British computer. I found an article[1] in the archives of BYTE magazine[2] - and was captivated immediately by the tech adverts of bygone eras. This led to a long side project to be able to see all 100k pages of BYTE in a single searchable place. [1]: https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198502-381 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683184
2025 · byte.tsundoku.io · its alternatives →
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EconTalk - Rachel Laudan on the history of food and cuisine▲54
History & economics explored via potatoes, rice, and wheat
2015 · its alternatives →
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Curious Minds - Digital information preservation & future archaeology▲71
A lesson about data preservation and its pitfalls.
2015 · its alternatives →
8
Life at Sea▲62
Observations of a Modern Mariner
2015 · its alternatives →
9
Hidden Brain - Remembering Anarcha▲60
The enslaved women sacrificed for modern gynecology
2016 · its alternatives →
10
Serial - S2E3: Escaping▲88
Learning the necessary and twisted lessons of survival
2015 · its alternatives →
11
Reap▲69
A survival game on a mysterious archipelago
2015 · its alternatives →
12
Trawl▲66
Discover the secrets hidden the depths of the sea
2015 · its alternatives →
13
The Dim Sum Field Guide▲62
A taxonomy of dumplings
2016 · its alternatives →
14
Pop Rocks And Home Brew: A Family Tale▲52
Stories from the future of food.
2016 · its alternatives →
15
Chronicle▲133
Build Codex memories from recent screen context.
Apr 2026 · learn.chatgpt.com · its alternatives →
16
ABZÛ▲72
A poetic descent into the depths of the sea
2015 · its alternatives →
17
Audiologs x Tibz - 025: Growing up eating food!▲53
A personal origin story told through food.
2016 · its alternatives →
18
Diseed▲137
Store and share your best of worst stories
2024 · diseed.fr · its alternatives →
19
No Such Thing as a Fish - No Such Thing as a Mousetrap-Remote-Control▲55
The original use for bubble wrap and more bizarre facts
2015 · its alternatives →
20
The Oxford History of Board Games▲73
Investigates the myriad board games around the world
2015 · its alternatives →
21
The Misfit Economy▲68
Lessons in creativity from pirates & hackers
2015 · its alternatives →
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Critters with neural net brains coevolve to survive killer planks in JS▲65
2015 · otoro.net · its alternatives →
23
Before the dawn▲66
Recovering the lost history of our ancestors
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Memory Palace - Building the Brooklyn Bridge▲65
The men who worked in the caissons beneath the water.
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