🔗 Finds #32

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #32 of Finds — the articles, sites, and corners of the web I bookmarked this week:

📄 Articles

analytics.opensyllabus.orgOpen Syllabus: the most-assigned titlesA ranking of the 3.3 million titles assigned on university syllabi through 2021, filterable by field, country and institution. Stewart's 'Calculus' tops it with 20,142 appearances; Plato's 'Republic', the subject of a video further down, sits at #31.

🌐 Websites / blogs

tabletopwhale.comTabletop WhaleEleanor Lutz's science illustration blog: 42 infographics on viruses, hearts, glowing creatures and planets, many of them animated. One of the ten maps in her Atlas of Space plots everything in the solar system bigger than 10 km, and she released the Python code for each.

plaza.oneNightwave PlazaA 24/7 online radio station for vaporwave and future funk, running since 2015. The player is a Windows 98-style window floating over a city at night, and you can rate tracks and scroll back through what's played.

📚 From Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.orgRadiology — The medical specialty of seeing inside the body, from plain X-rays to CT, ultrasound, MRI and PET. It began on 8 November 1895, when Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays, a find that won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

📺 From YouTube

youtube.comw2aew — Over 400 numbered bench videos on hobby electronics, test equipment and ham radio, on YouTube since 2007. Recent episodes measure a transistor's transition frequency and dig out the slide-chart calculators engineers used before electronic ones.

youtube.comPlato's Republic: An In-Depth Guide — Jared Henderson's 78-minute guide to the Republic, from defining justice and founding the ideal city to the philosopher king and the Allegory of the Cave. It closes on the Myth of Er, Plato's story of the afterlife.

youtube.comThe Entire History of Rome — Historically covers Rome from Alba Longa, the city its founders came from, through the kingdom, republic and empire to the split, in 38 minutes. The last chapter is titled 'It's dead guys'.

🌱 Promoted to the wiki: these now live on their topic pages — Learning, Science, Music, Anatomy, Electronics, Philosophy, and History — so they’re easy to find later. 🗂️ Catch up on past issues.