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Soulmates (TV series)
Soulmates (AMC, 2020) is a six-episode sci-fi anthology created by Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein about a future test that identifies your soulmate; renewed before premiere, cancelled by AMC in 2023.
Soulpepper
Soulpepper, also called Soulpepper Theatre Company, is Toronto's largest not-for-profit repertory theatre company, founded by actors in 1998 and resident at the Young Centre in the Distillery District, home of the Soulpepper Academy training program.
Soulquarians
Soulquarians: loose hip-hop/R&B collective (Questlove, D'Angelo, J Dilla, James Poyser, plus Badu, Common, Q-Tip) recording at Electric Lady Studios, late 1990s to early 2000s; named for shared Aquarius sign; produced Voodoo, Things Fall Apart, Mama's Gun; no group album released.
Souls of Mischief
Souls of Mischief: Oakland hip-hop group (Tajai, A-Plus, Opio, Phesto) of the Hieroglyphics collective, formed in the late 1980s; debut album 93 'til Infinity (1993, Jive) sold over 500,000 copies; independent since 1995.
Soulseek
Soulseek is a peer-to-peer file-sharing network and client focused on music, created in 1999 by Nir and Roz Arbel and known for rare, underground, and independent music.
Soulslike
Soulslike (Souls-like): action RPG subgenre named after FromSoftware's Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, defined by punishing combat, death penalties, checkpoints, and interconnected dark worlds; a mainstream Steam genre since 2022.
Soultz-sous-Forêts geothermal project
The Soultz-sous-Forêts geothermal project is a facility in northern Alsace, France, that created the first grid-connected Enhanced Geothermal System plant, generating its first electricity in 2008.
Soumaa of El Khroub
The Soumaa of El Khroub (Soumaâ du Khroub) is a Numidian royal mausoleum of the late 2nd century BC near Constantine, Algeria, wrongly known as the Tomb of Massinissa.
Soumendu Adhikari (সৌমেন্দু অধিকারী)
Soumendu Adhikari (সৌমেন্দু অধিকারী), born 1983, is a BJP MP from Kanthi, West Bengal, in the 18th Lok Sabha; youngest son of Sisir Adhikari, former Contai Municipality chairman who defected from TMC to BJP in December 2020.
Soumik Datta
Soumik Datta is a London-based British-Indian sarod player and composer who has performed with Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Anoushka Shankar, and won the 2022 Aga Khan Music Award.
Soumik Sarkar
Soumik Sarkar is an American-based AI and mechanical engineering researcher at Iowa State University, a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Soumitra Chatterjee (সৌমিত্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়)
Soumitra Chatterjee (সৌমিত্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়), 1935–2020, Bengali film and stage actor; debut as adult Apu in Ray's Apur Sansar (1959), 14 Ray films, Feluda in Sonar Kella; Dadasaheb Phalke Award and Legion of Honour recipient.
Soummam Congress
The Soummam Congress (مؤتمر الصومام) was the FLN congress of August 1956 in the Soummam valley, Kabylie, Algeria, which gave the Algerian Revolution its first coherent program.
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Soumya Raychaudhuri is a physician-scientist and computational geneticist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute, known for the Harmony single-cell algorithm and rheumatoid arthritis genetics.
Soumya Sarkar (সৌম্য সরকার)
Soumya Sarkar (সৌম্য সরকার), born 1993 in Satkhira, is a Bangladeshi left-handed batter who plays all three international formats and scored 169 against New Zealand in the 2019 World Cup.
Soumya Swaminathan
Soumya Swaminathan is an Indian pediatrician and tuberculosis and HIV researcher who served as the World Health Organization's first Chief Scientist from 2019 to 2022.
Sound
Sound is a mechanical wave of pressure that travels through air, water, or solids, cannot pass through a vacuum, and moves in air at about 343 m/s.
Sound (geography)
In geography, a sound is a long, broad ocean inlet running along a coast or a passage connecting two larger bodies of water, wider than a strait.
Sound & Fury (Sturgill Simpson album)
Sound & Fury is Sturgill Simpson's fourth studio album, a synth-heavy Southern rock record released September 27, 2019 on Elektra/Atlantic with a companion Netflix anime film directed by Jumpei Mizusaki.
Sound Agriculture
Sound Agriculture Co, formerly Asilomar Bio, is a private agricultural biotechnology company in Emeryville, California, founded in 2013, whose SOURCE spray activates soil microbes to release nutrients.
Sound barrier
The sound barrier, or sonic barrier, is the sharp rise in drag an aircraft meets near the speed of sound, first broken by Chuck Yeager in 1947.
Sound Blaster
Sound Blaster is a family of PC sound cards made by Creative Technology, first launched in 1989 and the de facto PC audio standard of the DOS era.
Sound Blaster Audigy
The Sound Blaster Audigy is a family of PC sound cards produced by Creative Technology from 2001, known for EAX Advanced HD environmental audio and a built-in FireWire port.
Sound card
A sound card, also called an audio card, is an expansion card or integrated circuit providing audio input and output for a computer, converting digital audio data to analog signals.
Sound change
Sound change is the spontaneous change in a language's pronunciation over time, studied via splits, mergers, and shifts. Key issues: Neogrammarian regularity versus lexical diffusion, actuation, and Grimm's Law.
Sound City (film)
Sound City (2013) is Dave Grohl's documentary debut about Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, its custom Neve 8028 console, its closure in 2011, and new recordings made after Grohl moved the board to Studio 606.
Sound City Studios
Sound City Studios, Van Nuys recording studio opened 1969 in a former Vox building; home of a custom Neve 8028 console used on Nevermind, Fleetwood Mac and Tom Petty records; closed 2011, console moved to Dave Grohl's Studio 606.
Sound design
Sound design is the creative planning and creation of a work's audio elements in film, TV, radio, theater, and games. The term is credited to Walter Murch and Apocalypse Now (1979); film sound design centers on post-production editing, Foley, and mixing, while game sound uses adaptive and procedural audio.
Sound effect
A sound effect is a recorded, performed, or generated sound other than speech or music used to support performance. Covers ancient thunder machines, foley, electronic cue playback (QLab), and AI generation.
Sound energy
Sound energy is the mechanical energy a sound wave carries through a medium such as air, water, or a solid, moving without net transport of the medium's matter.