Interactive Blogs

Hands-on explainers, in the spirit of Bartosz Ciechanowski. None of these are videos. Every figure is a live model you can drag, spin, and poke at. Some of them make noise.

Picking Locks

3D · sound

How the most common lock in the world works, and how it's picked. Spin a real 3D cutaway, slide the key in, and pick it open pin by pin while it clicks.

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Noise Canceling

audio

How headphones erase sound with more sound. The figures actually play audio, so you can hear two waves cancel into silence.

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Into a Black Hole

3D

What happens to light as it falls in. Real Schwarzschild geodesics, the photon sphere, the event horizon, and gravitational lensing you can orbit around.

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