Code
Four Lesser Known Console Methods
With these new methods in your pocket, you'll be console logging so much, everyone in the office will start calling you the lumberjack.
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Design
Easy Fluid Typography
This tutorial shows you how to implement fluid typography easily on your website and provides an interactive calculator to determine the typography scale that works best for you!
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Code
Resources for Getting Started in Web Development
How do you build a website? This article provides basic steps to get up and running as well as some handy resources for learning more about web development
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Design
The Complete Guide to the Dark Mode Toggle
This complete guide to the dark mode toggle includes best practices for implementing a color mode switcher on your website using custom variables, prefers-color-scheme, and more, all with a very pretty demo!
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Design
Easy Responsive Typography
How do you ensure that your text is comfortable to read on any viewport? Learn how to generate fluid, responsive typography easily with a SASS mixin
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Philosophy
The Limits of Force to Explain Life
Kant’s denial that natural science could explain the organism unintentionally brought the organism concept to the forefront of philosophic and scientific discourse in the 1790s and beyond. It also helped to shed light on those who were reimagining the forces at work in the living world.
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Projects
The Capitalizer
The Capitalizer is a title capitalization tool that turns text into proper title case according to style rules of the AP, APA, CMS, MLA, NYT, or WP. This post shares a little bit about the process of creating the app.
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Philosophy
The Algal Organism at the Beginning of Biology
The history of Blumenbach's Conferva fontinalis essay, and why the alga should be considered a proto-model organism
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Code
Best Practices: Resources for Web Design and Development
Best practices: A repository of resources for web development and design, focusing on security, privacy, accessibility, performance, UX/UI, and more
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Language
Dictionary of the Dormant
10 must-know, completely trivial words about sleep
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Language
Vice Hath December
If January's about moderation, then December's about excess. Here's ten words to celebrate overdoing it, before you do it over.
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Philosophy
A Series of Connected Events
J. G. Herder's influence on C. F. Kielmeyer's influential talk, "On the Relations of the Organic Forces to One Another."
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Philosophy
What’s an Organism among Friends?
A reassessment of Kant and Blumenbach's intellectual relationship, especially as it pertains to the history of biology.
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Philosophy
The Epistemic Foundations of German Biology
A reassessment of the beginning of biology, from Kant's third Critique to Treviranus's Biologie.
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History
Visions of Algae in Eighteenth-Century Botany
The remarkable story of an eighteenth-century alga that made its way from obscurity to the open air to the first pages of Frankenstein.
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Projects
Poetic Botany
Poetic Botany is a digital exhibit that showcases nine plants that were all stars in the eighteenth century.
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Science
Blumenbach and the Conferva fontinalis
A talk delivered to the New York Botanical Garden on the history of eighteenth century phycology.
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History
Darwin’s Botanic Garden: A Poem by Any Other Name
Why did Erasmus Darwin title his poem The Botanic Garden, when it covered such a wide array of subjects? That's what this talk aims to answer.
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