🔗 Finds #13

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #13 of Finds — the articles, sites, and corners of the web I bookmarked this week:

🌐 Websites / blogs

seeing-theory.brown.eduSeeing TheoryA visual introduction to probability and statistics, built in D3 by Daniel Kunin as a Brown undergrad — six chapters that let you drag, roll, and resample your way from chance events and expectation through distributions, frequentist and Bayesian inference, and regression.

abookofcreatures.comA Book of CreaturesA properly researched bestiary of myth, legend, and folklore — every entity illustrated and cited, browsable by region, by type, or by trait like shapeshifter, noisemaker, or disease vector. Where else do you meet the Snawfus, an albino Ozark deer with flowering branches for antlers?

learn.genetics.utah.eduLearn.GeneticsThe University of Utah's free science library, and far broader than the name suggests — genetics and epigenetics, but also cell biology, plants, ecology, evolution, human health, neuroscience, and a shelf of virtual labs to run.

ribbonfarm.comRibbonfarm — Venkatesh Rao's “refactored perceptions” blog, now retired and archived after 17 years — 1,000+ posts from 60 contributors on organizational theory, economics, technology, and ritual, including the legendary Gervais Principle series on how offices really work.

anatomyzone.comAnatomyZone — Over 200 animated video tutorials on human anatomy, filed both by region (head, thorax, upper limb, neuroanatomy) and by system (cardiovascular, nervous, skeletal), so you can drill into the middle ear or work through the rotator cuff one muscle at a time.

reallifemag.comReal Life — A magazine about living with technology that ran from 2016 to 2022 and reads as cultural criticism rather than gadget enthusiasm — essays on identity as personal brand, god games like Civilization and The Sims, and what Y2K should have taught us.

🎬 Videos

youtube.comAbstract: The Art of Design — Paula Scher — Netflix put a full episode on YouTube: the Pentagram partner behind the Public Theater and Citi identities on hand-drawn type, painted maps, and designing “in serious play.”

🌱 Promoted to the wiki: these now live on their topic pages — Mathematics, Mythology, Genetics, Blogs, Anatomy, Culture, and Art — so they’re easy to find later. 🗂️ Catch up on past issues.