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The Socratic Method
Rick Garlikov transcribes a lesson where he teaches third graders binary arithmetic only by asking questions, then refle…
The Soloist
A newsletter offering practical tips, game recommendations, and reflections for players of solo and journaling tabletop…
The Sophia Project
An online library of introductory readings and summaries covering major philosophers and philosophical problems, organiz…
The Sound of Harmonics
An article that analyzes a saxophone waveform with Fourier series and lets you hear how reconstruction improves as more…
The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder
A retro gaming detective story about a slip on Space Quest II master disks, revealing hidden data on the floppies and ho…
The Speed Report
A ranking of news websites by how fast they load, showing which outlets serve their stories quickly and which ones lag b…
The Spell That Wouldn't Leave
A warm personal essay about discovering Terry Pratchett at sixteen in a French classroom and the single sentence that ha…
The Steel Guitar Forum
A community forum devoted to pedal steel and lap steel guitar, covering technique, gear, and country music history.
The Story of Hedonism
Phil Cheeseman's history of Hedonism, a 1988 London warehouse party at the birth of acid house, told through recollectio…
The Story of How RSS Beat Microsoft
The history of Microsoft's ICE syndication format and how open, simple RSS beat it, with lessons on why open formats lik…
The Story of my First Burn
A day-by-day account of a first trip to Burning Man in 2017, built from raw notes written in the desert and illustrated…
The Story of Wall Street Raider
The story of Wall Street Raider, a financial simulator from 1986 that nearly died and was later revived, told as a 40-ye…
The Strange Resurrection of Lonesome Dove
An essay on why Larry McMurtry's 1985 cowboy epic is finding a new generation of readers online and what its revival say…
The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written
A tour of an unusually dark and funny computer manual unlike any other, with excerpts that show off its odd voice and hu…
The strangest letter of the alphabet
A history of yogh, the medieval English letter that vanished from the alphabet, tracing how scribes, printers and sound…
The Subjective Grounds the Physical
A philosophy essay arguing that the view from nowhere is nonsense, and that subjective experience rather than physics is…
The Sun Magazine
An ad-free magazine of personal essays, fiction, poetry, and interviews exploring everyday life, offering a rotating sel…
The Sun Seen Through the Earth in Neutrino Light
An image of the Sun captured from deep underground at Super-Kamiokande by detecting neutrinos that passed straight throu…
The Tao of Backup
A classic piece of computer humor written as a Zen parable, in which a master teaches a novice the seven heads of backup…
The Taylorator
A hobbyist builds software to flood the FM broadcast band with Taylor Swift songs, walking through the radio hacking and…
The tech of Terminator 2
An oral history of the groundbreaking visual effects in Terminator 2, with the artists and engineers behind the liquid-m…
The Tedious Intrigue of Art Conservation
A Carnegie Magazine feature that goes behind the scenes with museum conservators as they painstakingly clean, repair and…
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The Third Atomic Bomb
Hidden History digs into the US plans to drop a third atomic bomb on Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the narrow…
The Three Things Exercise for getting things out of talks
Mathematician Ravi Vakil explains a simple habit for actually remembering something from every talk you attend: jot down…
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