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Study quadric
The Study quadric, introduced by Eduard Study in Geometrie der Dynamen (1901), is a six-dimensional quadric in projective 7-space whose points represent rigid-body displacements, used in robot kinematics.
Study skills
Study skills, or learning strategies, are techniques students use to improve learning and achievement. Research rates practice testing and spaced practice highest; rereading and highlighting rate lowest.
Stuff (magazine)
Stuff is a British consumer electronics and gadget magazine launched in November 1996 by Dennis Publishing, closed in 1999, relaunched under Haymarket, and owned by Kelsey Media since 2018. Distinct from the unrelated New Zealand news website Stuff.
Stuff Happens
Stuff Happens is a 2004 play by David Hare dramatizing the political run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, blending public records with imagined private conversations.
Stuff You Should Know
Stuff You Should Know (SYSK) is an American educational podcast hosted by Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant, launched in 2008 as HowStuffWorks' first podcast and the first ever downloaded more than one billion times.
Stuffed (film)
Stuffed (2026) is a British musical comedy-drama by Theo Rhys, expanded from his 2021 SXSW-winning short, starring Jodie Comer as taxidermist Araminta and Harry Melling as Bernie, who volunteers to be her human specimen; premiered at TIFF 2026, 117 minutes, 75% on Rotten Tomatoes. Distinct from the 2019 Erin Derham taxidermy documentary of the same name.
Stuffed peppers
Stuffed peppers: hollowed peppers filled with meat, rice, vegetables, or cheese, then baked or simmered. Known as töltött paprika, punjene paprike, ardei umpluți; Ottoman dolma lineage; US version dates to Fannie Farmer 1896.
Stuffed toy
Stuffed toy (plush toy, soft toy): a fabric toy with soft filling, usually animal-shaped. Teddy bear created 1902 by Morris Michtom and Richard Steiff, named after Theodore Roosevelt; regulated under ASTM F963 and EU Regulation 2025/2509.
Stuffing
Stuffing, also called filling or dressing, is a bread- or starch-based mixture cooked inside poultry or meat or baked separately. Key facts: 165 °F safe temperature, 3/4 cup per pound, regional U.S. naming, 1538 first English attestation.
Stuffing box
A stuffing box is the housing on a pump or valve casing where a shaft passes through under pressure, sealed with packing rings or a mechanical seal.
Stuffy Mueller
Stuffy Mueller (Norbert Edward Mueller, 1906-1956), Canadian ice hockey goaltender from Waterloo, Ontario; won 1928 St. Moritz Olympic gold with the Toronto Graduates, playing one game, a 14-0 shutout of Great Britain, and a second Allan Cup in 1932.
StuGo
StuGo is a Disney Channel animated comedy created by Ryan Gillis, produced by Titmouse, about six middle schoolers tricked into a fake summer camp on a mutant-filled tropical island; it ran one 40-episode season from January 11 to May 3, 2025, then was cancelled.
Stull, Kansas
Stull, Kansas: unincorporated Douglas County crossroads near Lawrence, founded 1857 as Deer Creek, renamed for postmaster Sylvester Stull. Its cemetery is famed as a 'gateway to Hell' urban legend invented by a 1974 KU student newspaper article, causing vandalism and access restrictions.
Stumble (TV series)
Stumble: NBC mockumentary sitcom (2025-2026) by Jeff and Liz Astrof about junior college cheerleading, starring Jenn Lyon as coach Courteney Potter; 13 episodes, canceled after one season.
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon was a web discovery service founded in 2001 at the University of Calgary that recommended web pages one at a time, serving 40 million users until its 2018 shutdown.
Stumblin' In
Stumblin' In: 1978 soft-rock duet by Chris Norman (Smokie) and Suzi Quatro, written and produced by Chinn and Chapman; No. 4 US Hot 100, No. 41 UK; revived by Cyril's 2023 TikTok remix.
Stump (cricket)
Stump (cricket): one of three wooden posts, 28 in tall and 1.38-1.5 in wide, that with two bails form the wicket; third (middle) stump added in 1774; breaking the wicket underlies bowled, run out, and stumped dismissals.
Stumptown (TV series)
Stumptown is a 2019–2020 American ABC crime drama based on Greg Rucka's graphic novels, starring Cobie Smulders as Portland PI Dex Parios; one 18-episode season, renewed then canceled in 2020 over COVID delays.
Stumpwork
Stumpwork, also called raised work or raised embroidery, is three-dimensional embroidery peaked in 17th-century England, worked in silk and metal threads on satin with padding, wire, and slips on caskets and mirror frames.
STUN
STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT) is an IETF protocol, defined in RFC 8489, that lets endpoints behind a NAT discover their public IP address and port.
Stun grenade
A stun grenade, also called a flashbang, is an explosive device emitting a loud noise and blinding flash to disorient people, used by military and police tactical units.
Stunner
Stunner is the stage name of Desmond Chideme, a Zimbabwean rapper and pioneer of the urban grooves movement, known for the 2006 hit "Rudo Rwemari".
Stunning and Brave
Stunning and Brave is the South Park season 19 premiere (S19E1), aired September 16, 2015 on Comedy Central, written and directed by Trey Parker. It introduces PC Principal, satirizes political correctness and Caitlyn Jenner coverage, and opens the show's first serialized season.
Stunt performer
Stunt performer: a trained professional executing dangerous filmed actions such as falls, fights, crashes, fires, and wire work for actors. Also called stuntman or stuntwoman; doubles match a star's look, coordinators plan stunts, and the field dates to 1903.
Stunted growth
Stunted growth, also called growth retardation or child stunting, is impaired growth in children from chronic undernutrition and repeated infection; in 2024 an estimated 150.2 million children under 5 were stunted.
Stuntin' Like My Daddy (Euphoria)
"Stuntin' Like My Daddy" is Euphoria season 1, episode 2, aired June 23, 2019 on HBO, written and directed by Sam Levinson. Titled after the Birdman and Lil Wayne song, it covers Nate Jacobs's backstory, Rue's relapse, and Kat's viral video.
Stuntman (series)
Stuntman series: driving games where players perform scripted movie stunts. Stuntman (2002, Reflections, PS2), Stuntman: Ignition (2007, Paradigm, THQ), and Saber Interactive's licensed-film revival Stuntman: Hollywood (2027).
Stuntnuts: The Movie
Stuntnuts: The Movie (formerly The Stuntman, Project X) is a completed but unreleased action film directed by Damien Walters and produced by Matthew Vaughn's Marv, the third Kick-Ass-universe film, starring stunt performers with Chris Hemsworth and Sam Rockwell as themselves.
Stupa
A stupa, also known as a chorten or dagoba, is a dome-shaped Buddhist monument built to hold relics of the Buddha or his teachings, spreading from India across Asia.
Stupa Mound
Stupa Mound at Ramnagar (Aonla), Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, is the chief Buddhist stupa of ancient Ahichchhatra, Panchala capital; locally called Chhatr, 30 feet exposed diameter, 40 feet high, ASI-protected.