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The Remote Lounge NYC
A look back at a retro-futuristic New York bar where patrons sat before screens and remote-controlled cameras to watch e…
The Reverse Geocache Puzzle
The story of a locked puzzle box with a GPS inside that only opens at one secret location, built as a wedding gift, with…
The Riddle of the Embankment Sphinx
A London history blogger spends a few unproductive hours trying to track down the Victorian foundry behind the bronze sp…
The Rise and Fall of Full Throttle
An interview with LucasArts artist Bill Tiller about the two Full Throttle sequels that were started and cancelled, with…
The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol
The story of how a small team at the University of Minnesota built Gopher, briefly ruled the early internet, and then lo…
The RollerCoaster Tycoon Ride That Takes 3,000 Years
The story of a RollerCoaster Tycoon fan who built a ride so long and slow it would take thousands of in-game years for g…
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The Rubik's Contraption
A build log for a homemade robot that solves a Rubik's cube in 0.38 seconds, opening with the slow-motion video and then…
The Rumpus
An online magazine of essays, fiction, poetry, and cultural criticism, known for its candid personal essays and long-run…
The Sally Draper Poems
A cycle of poems by Jennica Harper written in the voice of Sally Draper from Mad Men, capturing a neglected girl's view…
The School of Life
A site translating philosophy and psychology into accessible articles and videos on emotional intelligence, relationship…
The Scientist
A life sciences magazine covering research trends and discoveries in biology, genetics, and medicine, aimed at working s…
The Search for Salvage
A fifteen-year hunt for Salvage, an indie rock band that charted once and disappeared, told as a personal music detectiv…
The Secret Language of Ships
A visual piece decoding the signs and symbols painted on the sides of ships, which tell stories about a global shipping…
The Send Off
Translator Emily Wilson explains why the hardest words to translate in Homer are often the ordinary ones, not the fancy…
The Seventeen Deaths That Changed Iran
An interview with photographer Azadeh Akhlaghi about her staged, cinematic reconstructions of seventeen deaths that shap…
The Shape of Apps
Icon designer Louie Mantia traces how Mac app icons lost their distinctive silhouettes to uniform rounded squares, and w…
The Shining Analysis by Rob Ager
Rob Ager's in-depth analysis of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, picking apart the impossible hotel layout, mirrors, mazes…
The Short Tragic Life of Allegra Byron
Starting from a small memorial tablet at Harrow church, this post retells the brief, sad life of Allegra, Lord Byron's d…
The Shortest Papers Ever Published
A roundup of famously brief academic papers, including a few that fit a title and a single sentence or a short table yet…
The Signal Box
A deep archive on British railway signalling, explaining how signal boxes, levers, and safety systems once controlled tr…
The Silk Dress Cipher and the Orphan Train
Nick Pelling digs into the Silk Dress Cipher, a coded message found in a Victorian dress, as reader clues suggest it is…
The Silver Swan Story
The story of the 1774 Silver Swan automaton at the Bowes Museum, a clockwork bird that preens and catches a fish, and it…
The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday
A tongue-in-cheek essay that fits curves to AI progress data and concludes the singularity will hit on a specific Tuesda…
The Slow Formation of Durable Software
A history of how a group of historians spent years imagining Zotero, the research tool that eventually reached millions,…
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