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One-page toys that teach by letting you try the thing
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Explainers that use motion, interaction and scrolling to teach what a paragraph never could. The clearest teaching on the internet lives here. All 22 were opened and written up by hand, and last checked on 29 July 2026.
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neal.fun
One-page toys that teach by letting you try the thing
10 sites
Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
animagraffs.com
Machines taken apart in animation, layer by layer
betterexplained.com
Maths taught as intuition first, notation afterwards
c82.net
An 1847 geometry book where colour replaces the labels
setosa.io
One statistics concept per page, all of it draggable
howstuffworks.com
Plain answers to how ordinary machines actually work
ncase.me
How mildly biased shapes end up in segregated cities
phet.colorado.edu
Free lab equipment for physics, chemistry and maths
seeing-theory.brown.edu
Probability and statistics, entirely as moving pictures
ncase.me
A playable argument about why societies stop cooperating
pudding.cool
Visual essays that argue with data instead of decorating it
11 sites
Clear your evening. We warned you.
3blue1brown.com
Grant Sanderson's maths lessons, with the visuals inline
pomax.github.io
Everything about the curve behind every vector graphic
ciechanow.ski
The best interactive explainers anyone is making
complexity-explorables.org
Play with the models behind epidemics, flocks and chaos
cpu.land
What happens between typing a command and seeing output
distill.pub
Machine learning papers you can actually see working
explorabl.es
A hub for every explainer you can play with
mathigon.org
A maths textbook that talks back while you read it
quantum.country
An essay that quizzes you so the physics actually sticks
redblobgames.com
Game maths, explained with diagrams you can drag
waitbutwhy.com
Very long posts with stick figures that still land
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