🔗 Finds #7

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #7 of Finds — a batch of things to read, poke at, and get lost in, from interactive physics to Greek gods:

📄 Articles

waitbutwhy.comThe Fermi ParadoxIf there are 100 billion billion Earth-like planets out there, where is everybody? Tim Urban walks through the 'Great Filter' and the unsettling possible answers with equal parts rigour, humour, and existential wonder.

🌐 Websites / blogs

ciechanow.skiBartosz Ciechanowski – ArchiveThe full run of Bartosz Ciechanowski's legendary interactive explainers — Mechanical Watch, Airfoil, GPS, Internal Combustion Engine, Bicycle, Moon — where every diagram is a live model you drag, spin, and take apart until the thing finally clicks.

tinytools.directoryTiny Tools DirectoryA curated shelf of small, free, often experimental tools and toys 'as fun to use as they are functional' — tag-filtered, community-submitted, and built to let you make things outside the walled software gardens.

theoi.comTheoi Greek MythologyA deep, meticulously sourced encyclopedia of Greek gods, spirits, and monsters, built straight from the classical texts and ancient art — the reference to reach for when you actually want the primary sources behind a myth.

compoundchem.comCompound Interest — Clean, colourful infographics that unpack the chemistry of everyday things — the fragrance of magnolias, the metal in Olympic medals, the science of smoking food — pairing molecular diagrams with plain-English explanations.

📚 From Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.orgBlue straggler — Stars in a cluster that look far too young and blue for their age — likely rejuvenated by colliding with, or siphoning mass from, a neighbour, so they stand out against the aging crowd around them.

📺 From YouTube

youtube.comVeritasium — Derek Muller's science channel — "an element of truth" — chasing counterintuitive physics and engineering questions with real experiments, from the world's longest bridge of misconceptions to why the speed of light might be unknowable.

🌱 Filed in the wiki: every link this week has a topic page you can find it in later — Space · Engineering · Technology · Mythology · Chemistry · Science. 🗂️ Catch up on past issues.