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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…
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The website of the world-famous botanical garden shares plant science research, conservation stories, and virtual tours…
Saying Hello Linked to Higher Wellbeing
A Gallup survey finds adults who routinely greet neighbors report higher wellbeing, with details on how many neighbors y…
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…
Science-Based Medicine
A site where physicians critically examine medical claims and alternative treatments through the lens of scientific evid…
Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart
A data sculpture that turns San Francisco home prices into a 3D map torn apart at the seams, with photos of the physical…
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…
Simulating 20,000,000 Particles in JavaScript
A performance deep dive into simulating millions of particles in plain JavaScript at 60 fps on a phone using only the CP…
Simulating Fluids, Fire, and Smoke in Real-Time
A richly illustrated walkthrough of how real-time fluid, fire and smoke simulation works, with live demos that show each…
Simulating Jupiter: Flowfields
A technical artist's visual breakdown of building a swirling Jupiter simulation with flow fields, showing the look of th…
Simulation, Consciousness, Existence
Hans Moravec's 1998 essay on whether we might live in a simulation, mixing ideas about computation, mind and the nature…
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…
Skinny Bob
A long, meticulous frame-by-frame investigation of the infamous Skinny Bob alien footage, weighing visual effects clues…
Sky & Telescope
A long-established astronomy magazine site with news, observing guides, sky charts, and equipment reviews for amateur st…
Sky Lapse in Two Tone
A look at Sentinel-1 radar satellite imagery that reveals ships, wind farms and rigs in the English Channel and other bu…
Sleep Advice, Mattress & Product Reviews | Sleep Foundation
Evidence-based resource on sleep health, disorders, and treatments alongside expert-tested mattress and bedding reviews.
Slow
Michael Nielsen collects problems that people can only solve over very long timescales and asks how to build institution…
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Slow Life
Daniel Stoupin's Microworlds post on Slow Life, a mesmerizing macro timelapse revealing corals and sponges moving and br…
So Good, It Works on Barbed Wire
A classic engineering essay explaining how radio signals can travel along a barbed wire fence, and how ordinary transmis…
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…
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