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Phyllotaxis: An Audio-Reactive LED Display
A maker's tale of building a spiral LED display that dances to music, using the golden-angle patterns found in sunflower…
Please, Enough with the Dead Butterflies
A science illustrator makes the case against pinned dead butterflies as the stock image for insects, with a sharp look a…
Poison, Poison Everywhere
An essay that opens with a high school teacher's wild story and goes on to explore the surprising history and prevalence…
Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
Adam Mastroianni charts box office, TV, books and music to show a shrinking cartel of franchises and superstars has conq…
Population Reference Bureau
A nonpartisan research organization translating global demographic data into accessible reports, charts, and interactive…
Possibly a Serious Possibility
Adam Kucharski explains how vague 'lurking weasel' phrases such as 'serious possibility' skewed Cold War intelligence as…
POV Candle
A tiny volumetric display built to mimic a flickering candle with spinning LEDs, with full build details, video demo and…
Prime Knots Wall Poster
A knot theory poster for math teachers plus the algorithm that generates its SVG knot diagrams, with lots of pretty tang…
Procedural Content Generation: L-Systems
A clear walkthrough of L-systems, the rule-rewriting grammars behind procedurally generated plants and fractals, with ex…
Project Hail Mary: Right and Wrong About Astrophysics
A Northeastern University astrophysicist weighs the science of the film Project Hail Mary, including its centrifugal gra…
PsyBlog
A psychology blog run by a psychologist that distills peer-reviewed research into short, practical articles about the mi…
Psychedelic Cryptography
A contest write-up about encoding messages that can only be understood in non-ordinary states of consciousness, a strang…
Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist
Psychology and mental health site with expert articles, self-tests, and a directory for finding therapists.
Radium Jaw and the Girls Who Licked Radioactive Paint
The grim story of the Radium Girls, factory workers who painted glowing watch dials and licked their brushes, and the ra…
Rainbow
A hardware hacking write-up on displaying colour on a black-and-white monitor, with the experiments and electronics behi…
Rainforest Restoration in Brazil's Atlantic Forest
A photo-led story on how farmers and foresters are replanting Brazil's Atlantic Forest with native seedlings, once a vas…
Rebellious Birds Make Nests out of Anti-Bird Pins
Biologists at Naturalis report magpies and crows building nests from the metal anti-nesting spikes meant to deter them,…
Red Delicious Apples Weren't Always Horrible
The story of how the Red Delicious apple went from a prized, flavorful find in an Iowa orchard to a mealy supermarket st…
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
An interactive article on building realistic skies, sunsets and planetary atmospheres in the browser, with live shader d…
Repairing a Ship's Hull in -50C Yakutsk
A vivid first-hand account of how a crew repairs the underside of a ship's hull while it sits in a frozen Siberian river…
Replace Peer Review with Peer Replication
A scientist proposes that journals require independent replication before publication, laying out how it would work and…
Resources for the Future
An independent research institution publishing accessible studies and data on energy, climate policy, and the economics…
Reverse Engineering My Cable Modem Into an SDR
A detailed hacking write-up on reverse engineering a cable modem to repurpose its tuner and hardware as a software-defin…
Rivers Through Time
A geologist uses decades of Landsat images to animate Amazonian rivers like the Ucayali writhing and cutting off meander…
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