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SharpBrains
An independent market research and science journalism site tracking the evidence behind brain training, cognitive testin…
SHISHUA: The Fastest Pseudo-Random Generator in the World
A technical write-up on SHISHUA, a pseudo-random number generator built for speed, explaining how it works and how it co…
Shmoergh Hog
The story of building Hog, a simple switches-over-knobs analog synthesizer for live performance, with photos and notes f…
Shmoop
Study guides that break down classic novels, poems, and plays with a witty, conversational tone, aimed at making literat…
Short Little Difficult Books
A reading list of challenging, stylish and formally inventive novels short enough to finish in a day, with a few lines o…
Shortest URLs on the Internet
A curious hunt for the shortest web addresses that actually serve a page, from single-letter domains to top-level domain…
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Tech
Shortwave Trading: The West Chicago Tower Mystery
An investigation into a strange antenna tower outside Chicago that turns out to be part of a shortwave radio network bui…
Should This Be a Map or 500 Maps?
A thoughtful essay on cartography about a map that never came to be, 500 priests, and why some places resist being flatt…
Sierra Club
America's oldest grassroots environmental organization publishes outdoor advocacy news, hiking outings, and conservation…
Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Lens Repair
A detailed teardown of a broken camera lens bought for under sixty dollars, with close photos of the optics and mechanis…
Silence Is a Commons
Ivan Illich's 1983 essay on how amplified speech and computers crowd out silence, and why quiet is a shared resource tha…
Simple 2D Terrain With Midpoint Displacement
A tutorial on generating 2D terrain with the midpoint displacement algorithm, with live demos and code showing how a jag…
Simulating 20,000,000 Particles in JavaScript
A performance deep dive into simulating millions of particles in plain JavaScript at 60 fps on a phone using only the CP…
Simulating Fluids, Fire, and Smoke in Real-Time
A richly illustrated walkthrough of how real-time fluid, fire and smoke simulation works, with live demos that show each…
Simulating Jupiter: Flowfields
A technical artist's visual breakdown of building a swirling Jupiter simulation with flow fields, showing the look of th…
Simulating Water Over Terrain
A visual walkthrough of building a shallow-water simulation over terrain, with interactive demos showing rivers, floods…
Simulation, Consciousness, Existence
Hans Moravec's 1998 essay on whether we might live in a simulation, mixing ideas about computation, mind and the nature…
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Entertainment
Sincerely, John Hughes
A woman recounts how a teenage fan letter turned into a years-long pen-pal friendship with filmmaker John Hughes, and wh…
Singapore Airlines Concorde: The Full Story
The odd tale of the Concorde that Singapore Airlines briefly flew to London in a shared livery with British Airways, and…
Singingbanana
Mathematician James Grime's site of recreational math curiosities, from intransitive dice to prime number oddities, writ…
Skeptical Inquirer
The magazine of the scientific skepticism movement, publishing investigations that examine extraordinary claims with rig…
Skinny Bob
A long, meticulous frame-by-frame investigation of the infamous Skinny Bob alien footage, weighing visual effects clues…
Sky & Telescope
A long-established astronomy magazine site with news, observing guides, sky charts, and equipment reviews for amateur st…
Sky Lapse in Two Tone
A look at Sentinel-1 radar satellite imagery that reveals ships, wind farms and rigs in the English Channel and other bu…
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