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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…
Solving Bongard Problems With Deep Learning
A walkthrough of Bongard puzzles, the 1960s visual pattern-recognition riddles, and an attempt to solve them with a neur…
Some Contemporary Heresies
Kevin Kelly lists the heresies he holds - beliefs that the people he most admires reject - in a short provocative essay…
Some Insects I Found Inside Dried Turkish Figs
A biologist dissects dried supermarket figs to settle a debate about fig wasps, photographing the tiny insect parts he f…
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…
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…
Spotlight on Helen O'Gorman
A New York Botanical Garden profile of Helen O'Gorman, the American sculptor and botanical illustrator known for her pai…
Square-Mile Street Network Visualization
A visualization of one square mile of street network in cities around the world, drawn at the same scale with OSMnx in t…
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Free, peer-reviewed online reference work with in-depth entries on philosophy maintained by expert scholars.
Statistics Done Wrong
Alex Reinhart's free online book about the statistical mistakes scientists make, from p-value abuse to underpowered stud…
Stellar Geography in the Babylon 5 Galaxy
A fan analysis of the astronomy in Babylon 5, tracing stars, planets and alien homeworlds across episodes and illustrati…
Stratospore: An Algae Bio-Altimeter on a Weather Balloon
A write-up of a weather balloon flight that carried algae to the stratosphere to turn their fluorescence into an altimet…
Surrealist Astronomy in the South Pacific
An essay on Joseph Cornell's collaged eclipse imagery and his fascination with astronomy and the South Pacific, from a L…
Surrounded by Genius: Lessons From Nature on Great Design
A long-form feature on biomimicry with Janine Benyus, exploring how insect iridescence, fish hydrodynamics and other nat…
Taiwan's Aging Population
An illustrated data story on Taiwan's slide into a super-aged society, explaining with charts why the island may soon ha…
Talent vs Luck Model
A blog post recreating a famous paper's simulation about talent and luck, showing why the most successful people in a ra…
Temblor
An earthquake science news site translating seismic hazard research into maps and articles that explain personal earthqu…
Ten Years of Logging My Life
A self-tracker shares a decade of hand-logged daily activities, over 85,000 entries, with charts of sleep, work and leis…
Terry Tao's generals
Fields medalist Terence Tao recalls his Princeton oral qualifying exam from 2012, the questions his examiners asked and…
Testing the F-35C Tailhook
A detailed thread-turned-article on how the F-35C carrier jet's arresting hook was tested and redesigned after early fai…
Tetrapod Zoology
Paleontologist Darren Naish's long-running blog exploring weird and wonderful living and extinct four-limbed animals in…
That Fractal on My Wall
A math-and-doodling story about a fractal drawn in middle school and kept on the wall for twelve years, with the hand-wa…
The Alpha Myth: How Captive Wolves Led Us Astray
How a 1947 study of captive wolves at Basel Zoo gave rise to the 'alpha' myth, and what wild wolf packs actually look li…
The Argonne Anti-Jet-Lag Diet
A plain-text copy of the 1980s Argonne National Laboratory diet plan that claims to reset your body clock for travel thr…
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