UFTB · A WAY IN

A field guide to the Bunker.

There is quite a bit tucked away in here. A history question can turn into a party-lineage rabbit hole. A fossil can lead to a map, a research paper and another question. Sometimes you just want a story.

This is the lay of the land. Open a bullet for the details, or switch to tiles and open a collection right here. Follow the link when you are ready to use the tool or read the piece.

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9 collections · 125 entries

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HISTORY & CIVICS

Understanding America.Today

Start with a president, a party or a turning point. Follow the connections, then look at the evidence behind the interpretation.

Fantasy classes and alignments are editorial readings. The voter and skills tools use dated datasets, with their limits kept in view.

  • American History Timeline

    Explore nine editorial eras, compare turning points, and follow the sources behind events and their interpretations.

    Open American History Timeline
  • American Political Cycles

    Scrub seven party systems, compare coalitions, and examine competing interpretations of political realignment.

    Open American Political Cycles
  • The Imperial Presidency

    Trace executive expansion alongside congressional, judicial, and electoral constraints, with linked historical context.

    Open The Imperial Presidency
  • American Party Braid

    Explore party lineages and relationship assessments. A connection shows historical lineage, not an unchanged ideology.

    Open American Party Braid
  • Presidents as D&D Characters

    Compare evidence-backed fantasy character readings of 45 presidents and assemble a five-president party. Classes are creative interpretations.

    Open Presidents as D&D Characters
  • Presidential Class Hall

    Explore 45 history-inspired Warcraft class portraits, compare interpretations, and read sourced quotations in context. An unofficial fan project.

    Open Presidential Class Hall
  • Presidential Alignment Lab

    Examine nine ethical alignment categories, historical rationales, and counterarguments. These are contested editorial readings, not objective ratings.

    Open Presidential Alignment Lab
  • The Presidential Reckoning

    Match presidents to their actions in a ten-question history challenge and compare your score with the public scoreboard.

    Open The Presidential Reckoning
  • American Voter Observatory

    Compare a curated subset of five ANES election studies with question-specific weights and visible limits. Descriptive differences are not causal proof.

    Open American Voter Observatory
  • ANES Question Lab

    Inspect questionnaire wording, response codes, exclusions, and split-sample context before interpreting a survey estimate.

    Open ANES Question Lab
  • American Skills Atlas

    Explore NCES adult literacy and numeracy estimates, compare places, and keep source dates and uncertainty in view.

    Open American Skills Atlas
  • UA.T Research Search

    Find connected records across the UA.T workspace and jump directly to the relevant historical or research context.

    Open UA.T Research Search
  • Saved Research Notebook

    Keep a research thread in your browser, save useful records, and export your notebook. Local storage is not a cloud backup.

    Open Saved Research Notebook
  • The Amerisphere

    Distinguish territories, legal authority and sovereign partners, then explore separate U.S.-linked founding histories.

    Open The Amerisphere
  • History

    Start with the timeline, then connect political cycles, party lineages and executive power. Open a collection when you want the records and sources behind an era or argument.

    Open History
  • Presidents

    Choose a presidential lens, with factual records separated from interpretive character assignments.

    Open Presidents
  • Dragon Ball Z characters

    Explore presidents as Dragon Ball Z characters, with creative pairings, historical context and counterpoints.

    Open Dragon Ball Z characters
  • Harry Potter characters

    Explore 45 presidents as Harry Potter characters, compare three, and inspect historical context and counterpoints.

    Open Harry Potter characters
  • Lord of the Rings characters

    45 presidents as Lord of the Rings characters, with historical context, comparisons, and a fellowship builder.

    Open Lord of the Rings characters
  • Research

    Choose voter research, adult skills or a saved notebook. Keep the source dates, question wording and uncertainty beside the numbers you compare.

    Open Research
  • Research relationships

    Explore the relationships among the site’s research records and their linked evidence.

    Open Research relationships
  • Methods & evidence

    Understand the distinction between sourced facts, editorial interpretation and entertainment.

    Open Methods & evidence
  • Space

    Explore America’s space programs, institutions and industry in their international context, with explicit handoffs to the independent Second Space Race for global coverage.

    Open Space
  • America in Space · with Second Space Race

    Investigate America’s space programs, capabilities and public relationships in their global context.

    Open America in Space · with Second Space Race
  • Space Explorarium

    Filter missions, compare up to three and save a source-linked research brief.

    Open Space Explorarium
  • Find an island or place

    Search reviewed names, aliases and parent territories without inflating territory counts.

    Open Find an island or place
  • Constituent islands

    Explore islands within their parent territories and keep constituent geography distinct.

    Open Constituent islands
  • Maritime jurisdiction

    Distinguish territorial waters from limited maritime rights and resource jurisdiction.

    Open Maritime jurisdiction
  • Tribal and federal overlays

    Read tribal sovereignty and federal authority as distinct, overlapping legal contexts.

    Open Tribal and federal overlays
  • Overseas controlled or leased sites

    Separate host-country sovereignty from U.S. control and site-specific lease arrangements.

    Open Overseas controlled or leased sites
  • Freely associated countries

    Meet sovereign compact partners, clearly separate from U.S. territories.

    Open Freely associated countries
  • Disputed and historical claims

    Compare dated claims, administration and case-specific legal findings.

    Open Disputed and historical claims
  • Law beyond sovereign territory

    Understand how legal authority can extend beyond sovereign territory.

    Open Law beyond sovereign territory
  • Historical relationships

    Explore independence, occupation, security partnerships and other distinct histories.

    Open Historical relationships
  • Annexation and territorial expansion

    Distinguish annexation, colonial cession and Indigenous dispossession with continuing sovereignty.

    Open Annexation and territorial expansion
Explore Understanding America.Today
THE HUMAN SAGA

We Are What’s Left

The human story has branches, overlaps and a lot of unfinished arguments. WAWL brings the people, places and evidence into the same picture.

Species pictures are reconstructions. Sources and uncertainty matter more than a tidy family tree.

  • The Story So Far

    Follow the branching human story through deep time. Pause at a turning point, examine the fossil or discovery behind it, and keep uncertain placements separate from established relationships.

    Open The Story So Far
  • Human Family

    Meet human species, ancestral populations and side branches. Use the family view to connect a name with its anatomy, place in time and the evidence behind its proposed relationships.

    Open Human Family
  • Current Understanding

    Get your bearings in the current picture of human life: food, tools, relationships, adaptation and community. Read the evidence notes alongside reconstructions rather than treating an illustration as a fossil record.

    Open Current Understanding
  • Atlas

    Explore the human past by time and place. Move through the timeline, search the map and open a record to examine the sources and uncertainty behind its position.

    Open Atlas
  • Reports

    Read species and population dossiers in greater detail. Connect anatomy, chronology and relationships with their sources, and check which questions remain unsettled.

    Open Reports
  • Plants + Animals

    Explore plants and animals in the human story. Follow cultivation, domestication, hunting and other relationships while keeping species, populations and human-made varieties distinct.

    Open Plants + Animals
  • Civilizations

    Explore early cultural and technological worlds through their surviving material evidence. Check the scope of each record; the collection does not imply that every later civilization is already covered.

    Open Civilizations
  • News

    Read research reporting and updates, with dates and sources close to the finding. Follow the underlying paper before extending a reported result beyond its stated evidence.

    Open News
  • Theories

    Inspect competing explanations and the evidence used to support them. Compare what an explanation predicts with what has been observed, and keep open questions visible.

    Open Theories
  • About the Evidence

    Review the methods, confidence labels, citations and ethical boundaries behind the archive. Use it to understand how the site distinguishes observation, inference and illustrative scenarios.

    Open About the Evidence
  • Evidence Workspace

    Inspect evidence coverage, claims and source changes in a dedicated workspace. Follow a claim back to its record and use the visible limitations when deciding how much weight it can carry.

    Open Evidence Workspace
  • Discoveries

    Explore archaeological and evolutionary findings and their implications. Follow the dated evidence behind a discovery, including the limits that can be lost in a short headline.

    Open Discoveries
  • Research

    Browse research findings and their supporting sources. Use the linked records to distinguish a new observation from an interpretation or a question that still needs better evidence.

    Open Research
  • Scientific Monitoring

    Inspect the source-update and research-monitoring status. A successful source check is a statement about coverage and retrieval; it is not independent verification of every scientific claim.

    Open Scientific Monitoring
  • Known Unknowns

    Look directly at gaps in the evidence and questions that remain open. Use them as starting points for investigation rather than filling the missing pieces with a neat story.

    Open Known Unknowns
  • Problematica

    Explore disputed taxa, unstable names and mismatches between classifications and lineages. Read the competing placements and the evidence needed to settle them.

    Open Problematica
  • Public Claim Registry

    Inspect public claims together with their review dates and revision histories. Follow changes over time instead of assuming that a once-published interpretation is permanent.

    Open Public Claim Registry
  • In Review

    Read selected monthly, yearly and decade reviews of research. Each review has its own coverage window and limits; a selected synthesis is not a complete census of the literature.

    Open In Review
  • Source Registry

    Find source records and the parts of the archive that cite them. Use the registry to move from a summary to the underlying paper or other original evidence.

    Open Source Registry
  • Corrections

    Follow changes to the evidence record. Check what was corrected and why, keeping scientific revisions separate from ordinary interface updates.

    Open Corrections
  • Coverage

    Inspect where the archive has evidence and where it has gaps. Use the coverage context before treating an empty area or an absent record as proof of absence.

    Open Coverage
  • Public Feedback

    Report a problem, suggest a source or raise a concern about a record. Give the relevant page and evidence so the issue can be examined in context.

    Open Public Feedback
  • Culture Before Us

    Explore material and social evidence for human cultural life. Keep the surviving objects and observations alongside the interpretations drawn from them.

    Open Culture Before Us
  • Food + Cooking

    Explore food, cooking and ecological relationships in the human past. Follow the evidence for an activity without assuming that every plausible reconstruction is directly observed.

    Open Food + Cooking
  • Made by Humans

    Explore plants, animals and other life shaped by people. Compare breeding, cultivation and other human influences while preserving the biological and historical distinctions.

    Open Made by Humans
  • High-impact Events

    Explore changes with major consequences across human history. Read each event in its place and time, including the evidence limits around its proposed impact.

    Open High-impact Events
  • From the Desk

    A planned home for essays and field notes by A.R. Schneider. This destination currently introduces the collection; it is not a claim that the full essay archive is published.

    Coming soon — this destination currently describes planned work.Open From the Desk
  • Media Library

    Browse videos, playlists and teaching materials. Check the access labels and source context before using a media item as evidence for a particular claim.

    Open Media Library
  • Classroom Studio

    A planned studio for guided classroom investigations. The page describes the direction of the work; it is not an available course or a completed learning program.

    Coming soon — this destination currently describes planned work.Open Classroom Studio
  • Compare Records

    Open records side by side in the comparison workspace. Change the selection and examine relationships, evidence and differences without losing the context of each record.

    Open Compare Records
  • Enrichment Lab

    A planned set of ways to turn curiosity into stronger research questions. Read the current direction here while the broader tools remain in preparation.

    Coming soon — this destination currently describes planned work.Open Enrichment Lab
  • Visual Insights

    Explore visual explanations of evidence and relationships. Read the accompanying labels so a diagram or reconstruction is not mistaken for a direct measurement.

    Open Visual Insights
  • Research Transfer

    Planned tools for taking research between workspaces. The current page describes that direction; do not rely on it as a completed backup or migration service.

    Coming soon — this destination currently describes planned work.Open Research Transfer
  • Community Standards

    Read the community rules and limits on participation. These standards explain the expected conduct and evidence boundaries around contributions.

    Open Community Standards
  • Privacy

    Read the site’s explanation of data use and contact information. Check this page before sharing personal information or using a feature that stores research.

    Open Privacy
Explore We Are What’s Left
GLOBAL SPACE RESEARCH

The Second Space Race

Follow the programs, companies, missions and infrastructure taking shape from Earth orbit to deep space.

2SR is an independent global project. UA.T’s America in Space covers American activity and documented U.S. partnerships.

  • Operating Picture

    Explore the mission picture from Earth orbit to deep space. Filter by era, actor and destination, then inspect a mission and its primary source.

    Open Operating Picture
  • Global Registry

    Browse programs, organizations and destinations worldwide, with the evidence quality visible beside the record.

    Open Global Registry
  • Strategic Domains

    Explore defense, infrastructure, governance, industrial capacity and planetary frontiers as connected parts of the space sector.

    Open Strategic Domains
  • Timeline + Saved

    Follow dated events, keep a watchlist and return to saved research. Publisher health is shown separately from the claims being reported.

    Open Timeline + Saved
  • Explore + Compare

    Inspect organizations, missions and their relationships, compare records and follow the claim trails.

    Open Explore + Compare
  • Decision Lab

    Try transparent weighting, delay-propagation and orbital-remediation models. These are teaching scenarios, not operational forecasts.

    Open Decision Lab
  • Methods + Health

    Read the methods, source-health notes and quality checks behind the workspace.

    Open Methods + Health
  • America

    Explore the United States government, industry and mission system within its international context.

    Open America
  • Space Economy

    Look at companies and the emerging industrial capabilities around launch, services and infrastructure.

    Open Space Economy
  • Briefing

    Read material changes and examine the evidence behind the assessment.

    Open Briefing
  • Orbital Cleanup

    Explore debris prevention, servicing, capture and disposal programs, keeping proposed capabilities distinct from deployed systems.

    Open Orbital Cleanup
  • Missions

    Browse featured missions from Earth orbit to the outer planets and follow their evidence.

    Open Missions
  • Industry

    Explore spacefaring nations, state primes and commercial organizations.

    Open Industry
  • Space Elevators

    Read about lunar elevators, tether research, climbers and terrestrial concepts. Research concepts are not operating infrastructure.

    Open Space Elevators
Explore The Second Space Race
THE ORIGINAL COLLECTION

Behind the Txts

Twenty-three pieces of late-night comic fiction from 2009–2010, recovered with their dates, stories and a visual identity of their own.

Some stories contain adult themes. Each story keeps its content notes and acknowledgment at the reading page.

Explore Behind the Txts
CONFLICT & CONTEXT

World War Tracker

Look at conflicts together, compare countries and alliances, and keep the source evidence close to the assessment.

This is a research beta. Illustrative records and incomplete coverage are not a live operational intelligence feed.

Explore World War Tracker
FICTION & WORLD BUILDING

Autumn in Ashes

A finished nine-chapter novella, three free opening chapters, and the people and places taking shape around the story.

The free preview is open. Digital editions are still being prepared; the Encyclopedia of Life preview has its own access boundary.

  • Read the Free Preview

    Three complete chapters from the finished nine-chapter novella. No purchase or account is needed to read the preview.

    Open Read the Free Preview
  • Public Concept Gallery

    Explore 123 public pieces in seven sets, including the story’s people, places, and visual language.

    Open Public Concept Gallery
  • World Files

    Explore the setting and the systems surrounding the story.

    Open World Files
  • Release Information

    Follow preparations for the planned ebook and ebook + AI-narrated audiobook bundle. Checkout and audio are not ready yet.

    Open Release Information
Explore Autumn in Ashes
GAMES, WORLDS & HARDWARE

The Game Room

Original Warcraft projects live here, alongside the queue for game reviews and long-term hardware notes.

The review queue is planned coverage. A title in that queue does not mean its review has been published.

  • Warcraft Hybrid Guide

    Explore confirmed people and mixed lineages, then compare reconstructions and clearly marked theoretical pairings. Canon and speculation stay distinct.

    Open Warcraft Hybrid Guide
  • Warcraft: The Living Chronicle

    Open the standalone atlas of Warcraft worlds, peoples, histories and lineages.

    Open Warcraft: The Living Chronicle
  • Games & Hardware Review Queue

    See the games and gear lined up for firsthand reviews, comparisons and ownership notes, with publication still to come.

    Open Games & Hardware Review Queue
Explore The Game Room
THE READING PILE

GrockThis

Stories, signals and rabbit holes worth following outside the Bunker.

The collection opens on Flipboard.

  • The GrockThis Collection

    Browse the mix of world affairs, technology, games, culture and science feeding work across these projects.

    Open The GrockThis Collection
Explore GrockThis
UFTB

Finding Your Way Around

Find a file, follow a project’s progress or dig back through the archive.

The archive keeps older entries available as the projects move on.

  • Search the Bunker

    Look across project files, posts, progress updates and collections by title, subject or keyword.

    Open Search the Bunker
  • Project Directory

    See each active project, read its overview and follow the work available now.

    Open Project Directory
  • Project Updates

    Follow release notes and substantial changes without losing the earlier working history.

    Open Project Updates
  • Complete Archive

    Browse the permanent record of project files and published transmissions, including entries that have left the front page.

    Open Complete Archive
Explore Finding Your Way Around