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philipball.blogspot.com
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Three Colours: Red
Science writer Philip Ball explores the colour red through art history and chemistry, from ancient pigments to painters,…
Three Kids, a Dead Raccoon, and My Crockpot
A bioarchaeologist's photo-essay about turning a roadkill raccoon into a clean skeleton in a crockpot with three curious…
Throwing Shade at the Cartographer Illuminati
A walkthrough of raytracing topographic maps in R to cast realistic shadows, showing how a few lines of code make terrai…
Tindall On Software Delays
An essay on how Apollo program manager Bill Tindall handled software schedule delays with blunt, practical memos, and wh…
Tips for Mathematical Handwriting
A practical guide to writing math legibly by hand, covering letterforms that get confused such as 1, l, 7, z, and 2 and…
ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com
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Today I Learned That Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue
A blogger's comic meltdown on learning that many people think without an inner voice, prompting readers to wonder how th…
Top 10 Martin Gardner Physics Stumpers
A list of ten physics puzzles from Martin Gardner's writing, assembled for his centennial, each a brainteaser that rewar…
Top 10 Ways to Know the Earth is Not Flat
Ten simple observations you can make yourself, from ships vanishing hull-first over the horizon to lunar eclipses and ti…
Treetops Glowing During Storms
Penn State researchers chasing thunderstorms captured the first film of ultraviolet corona discharges glowing at the tip…
Trout Unlimited
A coldwater fisheries conservation group publishing river restoration stories and practical advice for trout and salmon…
Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death
A practical, low-cost yard trick for killing mosquito larvae with a bucket of water and straw, explained with the scienc…
Turmeric and Lead Poisoning in Bangladesh
Stanford Medicine tells how scientists traced high lead levels in pregnant women to a toxic colorant added to turmeric,…
Two ISS Passes in One Morning
A photographer's write-up of capturing the International Space Station twice in one morning, flying between the Moon and…
Understanding Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata
An illustrated deep dive into multiple neighborhood cellular automata, the GPU-friendly rule sets that grow organic, swi…
Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips
A darkly funny guide to surviving a fall from a crashing airliner, part of the Free Fall Research Page with its archive…
Unraveling character webs
A data story that maps which characters interact in famous novels and TV shows, drawing their relationships as webs and…
jhupress.wordpress.com
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Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery
A historian's wife recounts six years of rebuilding the linen armor worn by Alexander the Great, from studying vase pain…
Using GPS in the Year 1565
A blog post that overlays a satellite-style track on a 1565 map to show how accurately old maps matched the real landsca…
Varieties of Dualism, Part Four: I am the master of my body
A philosophy essay on dualism arguing that believing the mind is separate from the body has physical and psychological c…
Verywell Mind: Know Your Mind, Take Charge of Your Life
Mental health and psychology site with expert-reviewed articles on conditions, therapy, relationships, and self-improvem…
Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize
How a burned 2000-year-old Herculaneum scroll was virtually unrolled and read for the first time, and what the ancient t…
VFD Amplifiers for Primitive Radio
A hobbyist's page on using vacuum fluorescent displays as tiny tube amplifiers in homemade primitive radios, with circui…
Vibe Physics: The AI Grad Student
A Harvard physicist guides Claude Opus 4.5 through a full quantum chromodynamics research project in two weeks, in a can…
Vikings tagged the great lion in Venice with runes
Researchers revisit the runic graffiti carved on a marble lion in Venice, evidence that Scandinavian Vikings served as M…
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