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SR-71 Blackbird Speed Check Story
A pilot's classic anecdote about the SR-71 Blackbird, where a speed check over the radio turned into a lesson in who rea…
Stainless Steel Rubik's Cube
A maker documents machining a fully working Rubik's cube out of stainless steel, with photos of every part and the lesso…
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Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games
A game designer's catalogue of the recurring structures in choose-your-own-adventure works, such as branch-and-bottlenec…
Stand-up Maths
Comedian-mathematician Matt Parker's site collecting his recreational math projects, puzzle challenges, and playful inve…
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Free, peer-reviewed online reference work with in-depth entries on philosophy maintained by expert scholars.
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Gaming
Star Castle 2600, the Story
A programmer tells how he finally ported the arcade game Star Castle to the Atari 2600 some thirty years later, solving…
Star Trek: DS9 Episodes Worth Watching
A curated guide to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes worth watching, a shortcut for newcomers who want the best of…
Star Wars: Episodes I, II, III and THX 1138
A philosopher's long, erudite defense of the Star Wars prequels against their critics, digging into politics, myth and t…
State Machines - Basics of Computer Science
A friendly illustrated explainer of state machines, walking from simple diagrams through finite automata, regular expres…
Statistics Done Wrong
Alex Reinhart's free online book about the statistical mistakes scientists make, from p-value abuse to underpowered stud…
Stellar Geography in the Babylon 5 Galaxy
A fan analysis of the astronomy in Babylon 5, tracing stars, planets and alien homeworlds across episodes and illustrati…
Stockholm Metro Art
A guide to the Stockholm subway, where over 90 stations are decorated with murals, sculptures and painted bedrock caves,…
Stoicism's Appeal to the Rich and Powerful
Historian Ada Palmer's essay on why Stoic philosophy has long attracted emperors and elites, and what that says about ho…
Stoop Coffee
A guest essay on how sitting on the stoop with coffee every week turned strangers into friends and changed a whole neigh…
Stop Calling Shuggie Bain Bleak
An essay in Litro Magazine arguing that Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize-winning debut novel Shuggie Bain should not be dis…
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things
Novelist Catherynne M. Valente looks back on three decades of online communities, from LiveJournal to Twitter, and why e…
Strafe Aim Guide
A wiki guide from the x76 gaming community explaining strafe-aiming in a vacuum, breaking down how to coordinate movemen…
Strange Horizons
A long-running speculative fiction magazine publishing free short stories, poetry, and criticism from a global roster of…
Strange Weather, by Marianne Faithfull
A long essay on Marianne Faithfull's 1987 album Strange Weather, how producer Hal Willner helped her rebuild after addic…
Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Subscription analysis blog examining the business, strategy and impact of technology companies and industry trends.
Stratospore: An Algae Bio-Altimeter on a Weather Balloon
A write-up of a weather balloon flight that carried algae to the stratosphere to turn their fluorescence into an altimet…
Streetsblog
A network of city news sites covering street safety, transit, and car-free urban design, with on-the-ground reporting fr…
Stuff
A reflective essay by Kris Bartkus that begins with an aggressive hard sell in a Mombasa market and turns into a meditat…
Stumbling and Mumbling
A British economics blog by journalist Chris Dillow mixing behavioral economics, politics, and philosophy with a wry, co…
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