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Replace Peer Review with Peer Replication
A scientist proposes that journals require independent replication before publication, laying out how it would work and…
Review: The Problem of Animal Pain
A Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews critique of a Trent Dougherty book arguing for a theodicy that accounts for animal su…
Rivers Through Time
A geologist uses decades of Landsat images to animate Amazonian rivers like the Ucayali writhing and cutting off meander…
Roaring 20s by Tate
A weekly dispatch that reads the financial papers of exactly 100 years ago, here covering August 1921 with Dow prices, h…
Robert Fulford on the Person from Porlock
Robert Fulford's column on Coleridge's famous person from Porlock, the visitor who supposedly interrupted Kubla Khan, an…
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Robespierre: Some Descriptions
A blog on 18th-century and Revolutionary France collects eyewitness descriptions of Robespierre's looks, dress and manne…
Roman Coins Online
An illustrated long-read on how digital databases of Roman coins are changing research into the Roman Empire, with image…
Roman Surveying
How Roman surveyors laid out roads, aqueducts and cities using instruments like the groma and chorobates, drawing on Vit…
Rotations and Balls in Even Dimensions
A math essay on how rotations behave in even dimensions and what that means for the balls they act on, written for reade…
Samuel L. Clemens to Orion Clemens, 1874
Mark Twain's 1874 letter to his brother written on his newly bought typewriter, typos and all, presented with notes and…
San Francisco Fed Research and Insights
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's hub of accessible economic letters explaining regional labor markets, housin…
Scale Types Tutorial
A tutorial from the International Society of Antique Scale Collectors that introduces the main types of weighing scales,…
ScienceAlert
An Australian science news outlet reporting daily on new research findings across health, biology, physics, and the envi…
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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…
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…
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…
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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…
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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…
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Seventeenth-century crowd funding
An early modern history blog post showing that crowdfunding is centuries old, explaining how 1600s authors and printers…
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…
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…
Shmoop
Study guides that break down classic novels, poems, and plays with a witty, conversational tone, aimed at making literat…
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