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uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com Article

A Rocket Cat?

A Penn special-collections post on the bizarre rocket cat and rocket bird illustrations in a 16th-century artillery manu…

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A Short Introduction to Automotive Lidar

A clear guide to how lidar works in self-driving cars, covering time of flight, scanning methods, wavelengths and the tr…

chinabooksreview.com Article

A Spark Extinguished

A review of a book on Tombstone, the 1960 account of students exiled to the countryside during the Great Famine who dare…

sites.udel.edu Article

A Symphony of Color: Mary Gartside on Light and Shade

A Winterthur blog post on Mary Gartside's 1805 Essay on Light and Shade, an early color theory book by a woman, with its…

sonderingemily.itch.io Game

A Taste of the Past

A narrative game where you reconnect with your mother's culture through food while a train carries you deeper and deeper…

profanity.acatcalledfrank.com Interactive

A Taxonomy of Swears

Interactive taxonomy of profanity from around the world, sortable by subject and rudeness, where you can explore how dif…

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A Telescope Chronology

A history-of-science blogger lays out the real early timeline of the telescope, showing that Galileo neither invented it…

atinyworld.org Website

A Tiny World

A Canadian artist with a microscope shares the invisible life in ponds, moss and puddles, with a field guide to tiny cre…

drb.ie Article

A Troll avant la Lettre

A Dublin Review of Books essay on Louis-Ferdinand Celine and how he tried to manage his post-war reputation as a collabo…

grossack.site Article

A truly incredible fact about the number 37

A playful number theory blog post explaining why 37 turns up as the median value of the second prime factor of an intege…

neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com Article

A Visual Proof That Neural Nets Can Compute Any Function

Michael Nielsen's chapter with interactive widgets that show step by step why neural networks can approximate any functi…

artmuseum.artfrompixels.com Interactive

A Walkable History of Art

An interactive 3D museum built from Wikipedia data where you wander through a thousand years of artists and artworks, ro…

computer.org Article

A woman named Steve

A profile of Dame Stephanie Steve Shirley, the computing pioneer who built a multimillion-pound software company staffed…

ayearofreadingtheworld.com Website

A Year of Reading the World

Ann Morgan's project of reading one book from every country in a year, with reviews and reading recommendations across 1…

timmastny.com Article

A* Tricks for Videogame Path Finding

A visual walkthrough of how game characters find their way, from straight lines and Dijkstra to A-star, with diagrams an…

amturing.acm.org Website

A.M. Turing Award

The official archive of every Turing Award winner, with biographies, citations, lectures and interviews covering the pio…

wordsmith.org Article

A.Word.A.Day

A long-running email and website tradition delivering one unusual English word each day with its definition, etymology,…

ashiwi-museum.org Website

A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center

The Zuni tribal museum and heritage center in New Mexico, with pages on the Zuni emergence and migration story, permanen…

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AAC Image Library

A community-made library of nearly 18,000 searchable symbols for augmentative and alternative communication, with explai…

aaroads.com Website

AARoads

A roadgeek's paradise of photo guides for US interstates and highways, mile by mile, plus highway history, a shield gall…

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Aaron Shepard's Folktales

A storyteller's collection of retold folktales and legends from around the world, written for reading aloud and performa…

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Aatish Bhatia

The interactive essay collection of physicist and journalist Aatish Bhatia, letting you play with simulations covering p…

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Abacus: Mystery of the Bead

A thorough online manual to the Japanese soroban and Chinese abacus, with history, addition, subtraction, multiplication…

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Abakcus

A hand-picked curation site for math and science, collecting videos, tools, books, articles, and gadgets that surprise c…

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