Sites that feel like magic: 116 sites

Fly out through our stellar neighbourhood, one star at a time

Grant Sanderson's maths lessons, with the visuals inline

The flying toasters screensaver, rebuilt in pure CSS

Machines taken apart in animation, layer by layer

One space image a day, explained by a working astronomer

A guidebook to the places no guidebook mentions

The best interactive explainers anyone is making

A chiptune sequencer that fits a whole song in a URL

Every natural history book, scanned by the world's museums

Three rules are all a flock of birds needs

Sixteen strange brushes and almost no control

An 1847 geometry book where colour replaces the labels

Every GIF at once, with a soundtrack, on purpose

A collage built entirely from salvaged GeoCities parts

A world map where every pin is a field recording

Play with the models behind epidemics, flocks and chaos

Four rules, and cells that build spaceships anyway

A hundred thousand old maps, zoomable to the street

A graphing calculator that keeps up with your typing

Machine learning papers you can actually see working

Twelve hundred nature recordings, kept free by a charity

The planet's wind, drawn as one continuous flowing sheet

Thousands of public cameras, pointed at everywhere at once

Search the sky the way the ESA science archives see it

Six thousand music genres, plotted on one scrollable map

Build a jointed creature and let it learn to walk

One statistics concept per page, all of it draggable

Hundreds of live animal cams, from bear falls to puppy rooms

An endless descent through shifting bands of colour

Birds saying what birds would obviously say

Build a circuit and watch the electrons move through it

Every aircraft in the air, updating as they move

Nathan Yau on what the numbers are doing to us

Thick oil paint that smears and mixes like the real thing

Hans Rosling's bubble chart, still worth an hour

Random two-wheeled cars, bred over generations, on hills