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Schotter - Georg Nees
A deep dive into recreating Georg Nees's iconic 1968 generative artwork Schotter, tracing archives, a thesis and the ran…
ScienceAlert
An Australian science news outlet reporting daily on new research findings across health, biology, physics, and the envi…
Science-Based Medicine
A site where physicians critically examine medical claims and alternative treatments through the lens of scientific evid…
Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers
A design critique of the computer interfaces in the 1995 film Hackers, looking at which screens and visual effects were…
SCREAM CIPHER
A playful post showing how the many Unicode variants of the letter A can encode a message as a cipher that looks like a…
Scrollbars are becoming a problem
A witty and thoughtful rant on how scrollbars have grown thinner, hidden, and harder to use, and why this small interfac…
tokyohanna.blogspot.com
Entertainment
Scrooge McDuck and the Frankish Kings
A rabbit-hole essay on why Scrooge McDuck is called Dagobert in German, tracing the name from a Disney translator back t…
Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart
A data sculpture that turns San Francisco home prices into a 3D map torn apart at the seams, with photos of the physical…
SDO Study
A tour of a Brooklyn work-from-home study that squeezes a flight simulator, an electronics lab and a music studio into a…
Searching for the Self-Loathing Woman Writer
A long read asking whether famous women writers hated themselves or were writing about a world that hated them, weighing…
Secret Colours of the Commodore 64
A nostalgic deep dive by a teenager-turned-developer who discovered hidden extra colours in the C64 display, with images…
Secrets of the Little Blue Box
Ron Rosenbaum's 1971 Esquire story on the phone phreaks who hacked the telephone network with blue boxes and whistles, t…
Security Standards and Name Changes in the Browser Wars
Tim Dierks recounts why Netscape's SSL became TLS in the late 90s, a short inside story of Microsoft and Netscape standa…
Sega AI Computer
A deep dive into Sega's obscure Japanese educational AI Computer, with specs, the touch-pad keyboard, software and scans…
Self Driving Cars Are Fun!
A student's write-up of building a self-driving car autopilot in Keras, walking through training a neural network to ste…
godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.com
Art & Design
Selling Dystopia: Early Promotional Artwork for Metropolis
A blog post gathering the striking posters, brochures and promotional art made for Fritz Lang's Metropolis, many adapted…
separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Education
Separated by a Common Language
A linguist's blog dissecting the differences between British and American English, one word or expression at a time, wit…
Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs
A leaked internal Google email from Sergey Brin recounting an agitated phone call from Steve Jobs, a small, funny window…
jpkoning.blogspot.com
Business & Finance
Setelinleikkaus: When Finns Snipped Their Cash in Half
How in 1945 Finland ordered citizens to cut their banknotes in half to curb postwar inflation, and why the odd monetary…
mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com
Education
Seventeenth-century crowd funding
An early modern history blog post showing that crowdfunding is centuries old, explaining how 1600s authors and printers…
Sew Historically
A niche blog dedicated to historical costuming, teaching sewing techniques for recreating clothing from past centuries w…
SewCanShe
A large free archive of beginner-friendly sewing patterns and tutorials for clothing, bags, and home goods with clear ph…
SF Writers At War
A blog essay on how Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague de Camp worked side by side at the Philadelphia Navy Ya…
Shakespeare and Medicine: Friar Lawrence
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust looks at Friar Lawrence's herbs and potions in Romeo and Juliet and what they reveal ab…
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