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Wander the web like a shoreline.
Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
Pick a few topics
Hooked: how slot machines are designed to be addictive
Poker machines use a range of design features that leverage psychology to keep people playing. In this feature, first published in 2017, we break them down so you can see exactly how slot machines are programmed to work, and how they affect people
From Explorable Explanations
Up & Down the Ladder of Abstraction
a systemic guide to interactive visualization
From Explorable Explanations
Elements of Euclid
oliver byrne's edition of euclid's "elements" uses colored diagrams and symbols instead of letters to proof theorems about math and geometry
Something different
Sizing Chaos
The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women.
From The Pudding
Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence
By creating user interfaces which let us work with the representations inside machine learning models, we can give people new tools for reasoning.
From Explorable Explanations
Segmented Type
an interactive gallery of segmented types around the world
From Explorable Explanations
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