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A New Spline
Raph Levien explains a new spline that continues his Spiro curve work from his PhD thesis, with examples of smooth curve…
A Night Under The Stars
An interactive data story exploring overnight stays across US National Parks, showing when people camp versus book lodge…
A Painted Ocean
A sailing simulator by Neil Thapen where you steer a historical full-rigged man-of-war across the globe under real-world…
A Particle Physics Course for High-School Students
CERN's free course introducing particle physics to teenagers, covering the Standard Model, accelerators and detectors wi…
A Physically-Based GPU Ray Tracer in Julia
A blog post from the Makie team showing how a physically-based ray tracer was written in Julia and run on the GPU, with…
A Planet That Plays Chopin
An interactive story of a newly recovered trans-Neptunian object whose orbit locks four against three with Neptune, turn…
A question of time - Parisian Fields
A Parisian Fields post on the pneumatic clocks of 1880s Paris, a network of compressed air pipes that pulsed every minut…
A Regular Expression to Check for Prime Numbers
The famous trick of testing whether a number is prime using nothing but a regular expression on a string of ones, explai…
A Revolution in Biology?
An essay on how developmental biology and bioelectric signaling might hold clues to how bodies form, how intelligence ar…
A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards
A curated collection of old Rolodex business cards from Los Alamos, offered by the Center for Land Use Interpretation as…
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…
A Sibilant Intake of Breath
The blog of a climate activist and science communicator, mixing commentary on climate and energy with photography and ha…
A Sign in Space
An art and science project that asks participants to decode the message the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter beamed to Earth to…
A Small Farm Future
A blog by farmer and author Chris Smaje on small-scale agriculture, ecology and politics, arguing for a more localized a…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
A Vortex on a 386
A tiny fluid simulation that visualizes the Navier-Stokes equations as a swirling vortex, squeezed into a 1kB demo that…
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…
A.M. Turing Award
The official archive of every Turing Award winner, with biographies, citations, lectures and interviews covering the pio…
a.tulv.in
A tinkerer's notebook of playful math and code projects, like Tupper's self-referential formula, noise planets, Game of…
A/B Street
A traffic simulation game where you reshape streets and intersections to untangle congestion, with editable maps of real…
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