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Interactive science explainers

Science you can play with.

Read the explanation, then drag the sliders and watch the model respond — pendulums, Fourier transforms, Bayes' theorem, black holes. Every article ships with two hand-built widgets you can break on purpose.

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Quadruple a pendulum's length and it swings only twice as slowly.

Not four times. Drag the length and watch the period — this is what every article here does, at its smallest.

1.00 m0.25 m
A quarter as long gives 1.00 s — half, not a quarter, because the length sits under a square root. Small-angle approximation, and gravity taken as 9.81 m/s².
Why the square root, and where it stops working

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