Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
Pick a few topicsI enjoy staring up at the stars at night and trying to wrap my tiny brain around the vast distances and time that their light has travelled. I find it relaxing to consider just how insignificant I am, and how brief and unimportant my existence is. I am hypnotised when watching the wind ripple…
From Kagi Small Web
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From Awesome Explorables
A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period.
From The Public Domain Review
Personal writings exploring strange history, weird curiosities, occult lore, astronomy, music, and unusual finds from the deeper corners of culture.
From personalsit.es
Explore data and build apps seamlessly with marimo, a next-generation Python notebook.
From Awesome Explorables
Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
From Quanta Magazine
A detailed interactive explanation on how the Global Positioning System works.
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an explorable explanation of relativistic spacetime
From Explorable Explanations
To bring the Vulcan Centaur collection to date, here’s the Vulcan Centaur USSF-87 papermodel for free download! Cargo Dragon CRS-35 is now available. This will complete the iRosa installation on all Power Channels. A postflight model for S40 is pending. Stay tuned for an upcoming 1:400 scale diorama…
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Play Zubspace, an open-source HTML5 game remaking Subspace Continuum. Fan-made. Jump in and battle other players in your browser.
From Show HN
A tool that allows you to create and edit nice little spherical planets.
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A forgotten bridge between Spiritualism and UFO encounters.
From The Public Domain Review
a pop-up book that is home to a working planetarium and more
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That's this stretch.
Walk on