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Dublin Core

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The importance of stupidity in scientific research (2008) [pdf]

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Ray Optics Simulation

Marvin Minsky – Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence (1961) [pdf]

An Electronic Conversationalist (and the Machine Replied...) (1962)

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The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed

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There Is No Progress in Philosophy (2011) [pdf]

Engaging with Everyday Sounds [2022]

A brief history of Lab Notebooks

The AI Layoff Trap

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Alexander Friedmann and the origins of modern cosmology (2012)

Music Blocks – Learn coding through music and music through coding

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Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies (2021)

The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces (2022)

Experimental Publishing Compendium

Been There, Done That – A History of Replacing Schools with AI

MoonRay – DreamWorks' open-source production MCRT renderer

Sage Math Cell – embed Sage computations into any webpage

Tiny Terminal

Math Notepad

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Gravity's Effect on Biology

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mathematics [pdf]

School stu­dents launch satel­lite to detect fungi in atmosphere

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Surreal Number

Searching for Birds

Stop abusing Bernoulli when describing lift

Poemotion by Takahiro Kurashima: An Interactive Book of Moire Patterns

Barcode Scanner as a Musical Instrument

The Perry Bible Fellowship

The Silicon Gaze: A typology of biases and inequality in LLMs

Transhumans – open-source illustrations of humans

Memos – An open-source, self-hosted note-taking service

Journeying through cosmic views with James Webb Space Telescope [video]

World's Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots

Learn Your Way – Re-imagining textbooks for every learner

Quartify: Convert R scripts into Quarto Markdown documents

LLM Council – Your Local Multi-Model AI Advisory Board

Cybernetic Methods in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (1976)

Why Does A.I. Write Like – That? – Chatbot Writing Style

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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out – Feynman Interview by BBC (1983)

New universal law predicts how most objects shatter

The Model of Catastrophe

From Cells to Selves

The Hidden Language of Our Body's Rhythms

Great Math Software: List of fun visual math programs

Electric Discharges Detected on Mars

Our Phosphorescent World

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Mapping Bob Dylan's Mind

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Really Simple Licensing – The open content licensing for the AI-first Internet

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