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3 of 9 sites catalogued.
Three sites that actually taught me something a textbook couldn't. I don't retain much from lectures, but I remember all of these.
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Bartosz Ciechanowski
Bartosz Ciechanowski writes about how ordinary things work: cameras, gears, GPS, the sky itself. The essays come with diagrams you can drag around while you read, so instead of trusting the text about how a lens focuses light, you nudge it yourself and watch it happen. I've linked this to people more than once when they asked what I meant by "interactive teaching."
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Nicky Case
Nicky Case makes small interactive explainers about big topics — trust, evolution, how systems spiral out of control — where you mess with the rules instead of reading about them. "The Evolution of Trust" turned a concept I'd failed to absorb from two separate university subjects into something I got in about ten minutes.
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The Pudding
The Pudding answers questions nobody else thinks to ask, like how restaurant menus have changed over the last century, using charts and interactive graphics instead of paragraphs. Every article is basically its own tiny web app, built just for that one question. I've never opened one of their pieces and closed the tab before finishing it.