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explainers Visual explainer of how a push-latch mechanism works Mark Frauenfelder
quantum weirdness Teenage science explainer wins scholarship for brilliant explanation of quantum tunneling Clive Thompson
greenhouse gasses Animated explainer: "Is it too late to stop climate change?" David Pescovitz
tops Here's why a tippe top will spin on its narrow end Andrea James
black death The 14th century Black Plague gets the History Hijinks treatment Andrea James
explainers Amazing explainer websites Mark Frauenfelder
looters Explaining the con that is private equity Cory Doctorow
#moneylaundry Everything you wanted to know about money-laundering but were afraid to ask Cory Doctorow
explainers Great backgrounder on the Hong Kong protests: what's at stake and how'd we get here? Cory Doctorow
explainers Explainer video: why is gold expensive? Mark Frauenfelder
a trillion here a trillion there pretty soon you're talking real money Matt Taibbi finally makes sense of the Pentagon's trillions in off-books "budgetary irregularities" Cory Doctorow
gut flora Me, Myself and Microbes: the relationship between microbes, brains and behaviors Cory Doctorow
causality Can the future influence the past? The scientific case for quantum retrocausality Andrea James
friendly skies of united John Oliver on monopolies, anti-trust and the death of real competitive markets Cory Doctorow
brevity is the soul of wit The basics of crypto, in 4.5 pages, using only small words lawmakers can understand Cory Doctorow
counting chickens What's happening to Trump's popularity? Parsing the polls with Nate Silver Cory Doctorow
compound interest Reminder: if you have one penny, your net worth is equal to the combined wealth of the world's poorest 40% Cory Doctorow
voting rights act Webcomic explains how weakening the Voting Rights Act led to voter suppression in 2016 Cory Doctorow
Constitution How to be less wrong about the First Amendment Cory Doctorow
explainers 25 GIFs that explain how things work Mark Frauenfelder