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The R. Bradley Lathe
The story of a working metal lathe improvised by a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp, with photos, construction details an…
The Radical Copyeditor's Style Guide for Writing About Transgender People
A clear, practical style guide from a genderqueer copyeditor on how to write about trans people with care, covering term…
The Real Lolita
Sarah Weinman's longread on the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner and how her story found its way into Nabokov'…
The Remarkable Number 1/89
A short, surprising explanation of why the decimal expansion of 1/89 hides the Fibonacci sequence, worked out with simpl…
The Remarkable Story of Ona Judge
An essay from the White House Historical Association on Ona Judge, who was born into slavery at Mount Vernon, served the…
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 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 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 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 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 Slow Formation of Durable Software
A history of how a group of historians spent years imagining Zotero, the research tool that eventually reached millions,…
The Socratic Method
Rick Garlikov transcribes a lesson where he teaches third graders binary arithmetic only by asking questions, then refle…
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 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 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…
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