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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…
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…
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…
Slow
Michael Nielsen collects problems that people can only solve over very long timescales and asks how to build institution…
SmokeLong Quarterly
A leading flash fiction magazine publishing free stories under a thousand words, often paired with author interviews and…
So You Want to Learn Physics
Susan Fowler's self-study roadmap for learning physics from scratch, listing the math and physics textbooks to work thro…
So You Want to Learn Physics
A well-known self-study guide that lays out a path through physics from basics to advanced topics, with recommended text…
Social Welfare History Project
A VCU library encyclopedia of American social reform history, with entries like this one on Jane Addams, founder of Hull…
SOCKS
An eclectic blog collecting visual research on architecture, cartography, and utopian urban planning, mixing historical…
Some Invalid Arguments Are More Bad Than Others
An essay proposing a formal way to score how flawed an invalid argument is, combining where the errors occur, whether th…
Some of the Most Fun Cryptic Clues Ever Written
A collection of the cleverest, most devious and silliest cryptic crossword clues, each explained step by step so even ne…
Something Fishy in American Politics
A playful interactive article that asks what if sushi ran for president, using fish and rice to show how different votin…
Spaced Repetition Can Allow for Infinite Recall
A walkthrough of how spaced repetition schedules reviews to defeat forgetting, with a simple model of memory decay and w…
Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better
An explainer on how the FSRS algorithm improved flashcard scheduling over older spaced repetition systems, and what that…
SparkFun Tutorials
Free step-by-step electronics tutorials from a beloved open-hardware retailer, covering soldering, sensors, and beginner…
Speaking.io
A concise, practical guide to public speaking, with tips on preparing talks, designing slides, and delivering them with…
Spy Codes
A free booklet of simple ciphers and secret codes for kids to learn, with step-by-step examples for encoding and decodin…
Square Theory
A delightful essay born in a crossword Discord server on why some wordplay clues and puns feel so satisfying, with a sim…
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.
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…
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…
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