Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #8 of Finds — a spread that runs from first-year physics lecture notes to Wikipedia-as-a-TikTok-feed:
📄 Articles
davidtong.orgDynamics and Relativity — David TongCambridge physicist David Tong's beautifully clear first-year lecture notes on Newtonian mechanics and special relativity — around 160 pages, chapter by chapter, from Newton's laws and central forces to Lorentz transformations and the geometry of spacetime, with problem sheets to match (and a whole library of his other courses next door).
🌐 Websites / blogs
blog.sakugabooru.comSakuga BlogThe Art of Japanese Animation — long, loving deep-dives into how anime is actually made, tracing individual animators, directors, and productions (Chainsaw Man, Kyoto Animation, My Dress-Up Darling) with translated interviews and a craftsperson's eye for the frames most viewers blow straight past.
waitbutwhy.comWait But WhyTim Urban's blog of enormous, stick-figure-illustrated deep dives — AI, space, procrastination, the whole human timeline — that take one huge question and patiently walk you all the way to the bottom of it, funny and rigorous in equal measure.
wikitok.vercel.appWikiTokWikipedia as a TikTok feed: an endless vertical scroll of random articles, each just a picture, a paragraph, and a 'read more', so you fall from a 1919 Isle of Wight school to an American silversmith to a South African activist with a flick of the thumb.
aquadzn.github.ioLearn X by doing Y — A project-based-learning search engine — instead of courses, it points you at concrete projects to build, on the idea that you pick up a skill best by making something real with it.
📚 From Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.orgBelfagor — Respighi's 1923 opera, premiered at La Scala: an archdemon is sent up from hell to test whether marriage is really as bad as the damned keep claiming — he disguises himself as a rich nobleman, chases a girl who loves a sailor instead, and is finally foiled by church bells that ring of their own accord.
📺 From YouTube
youtube.comTED-Ed — TED's education arm — short, gorgeously animated lessons across science, history, literature, and philosophy, plus the addictive 'Can you solve…' riddle series, each built to unpack one idea with a teacher's voice and an illustrator's hand.
🌱 Filed in the wiki: every link this week has a topic page you can find it in later —
Physics · Animation · Blogs · Technology · Learning · Music.
🗂️ Catch up on past issues.
