How an Enigma machine scrambles letters, how a Greek warship rowed, how The Clapper became a craze. Press play and stay a while.
A 70-second film on how TCP delivers what the internet drops
→ eyad.com
Manuel Bravo's video walks the Acropolis as it stood in 432 BC
→ openculture.com
Animated overview of every physics field and the gaps between them
→ youtube.com
Meticulous 3D animations of everyday object internals
→ mechanical-pencil.com
Fuller's silent Dymaxion-projection visualisation of human population from 1000 BCE to 1965
→ openculture.com
Interactive explainer from photons through the full energy chain
→ perthirtysix.com
A 3D teardown that follows one keypress through the whole rotor path
→ youtube.com
A 3D animation that finally makes three tiers of oars make sense
→ youtube.com
The drop to Challenger Deep, in real time, on the Titanic's anchor
→ theawesomer.com
1,900 trains moving across 147 lines, at sixty times speed
→ greggman.github.io
70 minutes on a switch that barely worked and sold anyway
→ theverge.com
A single point multiplies into a full geometric ballet, set to Schubert
→ youtube.com
Fly through the stained glass of a San Francisco cathedral in a browser tab
→ vincentwoo.com
A Mac Mini on a low table, shared with his wife's bass and keyboards
→ usesthis.com