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Why is the sky blue?

Why is the sky blue? explainers.blog/posts/why-is...

Airfoil – Bartosz Ciechanowski Interactive article explaining the physics of an airfoil and what makes airplanes fly

Airfoil – Bartosz Ciechanowski ciechanow.ski/airfoil/

Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners arstechnica.com/science/2025...

How to draw a Space Invader · Muffin Man This interactive post will show you how to build your own fleet of space invaders by mixing geometry with randomness and a splash of color.

How to draw a Space Invader · Muffin Man muffinman.io/blog/invader...

Thousands of climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls New footage provides rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish

Thousands of climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock Todays candles have been optimized for millenia not to flicker. But it turns out when we bundle three of them together, we can undo all of these optimizations and the resulting triplet will start t…

Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock cpldcpu.com/2025/08/13/c...

how to cheat at settlers by loading the dice My copy of Settlers of Catan came with two normal wooden dice. To load these dice, I placed them in a small plate of water overnight, leaving the 6 side exposed.

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LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text LegoGPT generates a LEGO structure from a user-provided text prompt in an end-to-end manner. Notably, our generated LEGO structure is physically stable and buildable.

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/

Getting things "done" in large tech companies www.seangoedecke.com/getting-thin...

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model Anthropic's latest interpretability research: a new microscope to understand Claude's internal mechanisms

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

How Anime Fans Stumbled upon a Mathematical Proof https://buff.ly/rQgUdj9

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Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights https://buff.ly/42PuI5S

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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym We have featured Benedict Cumberbatch reading letters by Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Turing, Albert Camus, and Nick Cave, along with passages from Kafka's Metamorphosis and Melville's Moby Dick. It's all pret...

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym www.openculture.com/2025/01/bene...

Great Art Explained: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci https://buff.ly/40yPyDU

YouTube video by Al Green Al Green - Everybody Hurts (Official Lyric Video)

Sometimes a musician records a cover version of a song and it is so mind-blowing, you can never listen to the original in the same way again.

A nearly 80 year-old Al Green just released his new single, a cover of REM's "Everybody Hurts." And holy crap, can he still sing.

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The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) [pdf] | Hacker News https://buff.ly/3PP3NzA

Powell's Essential List: 25 Best Sci-fi and Fantasy Books of the 21st Century (So Far) | Powell's Books https://buff.ly/40C1iHd

The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

Harvard Puts Online a Huge Collection of Bauhaus Art Objects You may have first encountered the word Bauhaus as the name of a campy, arty post-punk band that influenced goth music and fashion. But you'll also know that the band took its name from an even more i...

Harvard Puts Online a Huge Collection of Bauhaus Art Objects

Full article: The Identification of the Sacred “Chiton” (Sarapis) of Pharaoh Alexander the Great in Tomb II at Vergina, Macedonia, Greece https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00934690.2024.2409503#abstract

The British Pathe Archive https://buff.ly/4hHbxR5

After Colombia's FARC peace agreement, scientists found more new species - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-peace-opened-wildlife-discovery-new-violence-frustrates-progress-2024-10-27/

Ephemeral tic tac toe ❌⭕ https://buff.ly/3MgiNF0

I Made the World's Best Foosball Robot! https://youtu.be/xrwXZXGiP1w?si=z1GIYtH6k4Lk7bSt via @YouTube

Size XXXS, Miniature Sweaters https://buff.ly/3SPOus7

50 Places to Eat and Drink Before You Die @atlasobscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/gastro-obscura-best-restaurants-bars

The Origin & Evolution of Italian Stuffed Pasta Shapes https://buff.ly/3YNlp4n

Science Goes to the Olympics https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/29/science/paris-olympics-science.html?smid=tw-share