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Give an unfamiliar idea a familiar object, action, or experience to build on.

Entropy Explained, With Sheep

Entropy Explained, With Sheep

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Video thumbnail: Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

Video · 34 min

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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Book cover: A Chemical History of a Candle · How a wick lifts candle fuel by Michael Faraday

A Chemical History of a Candle · How a wick lifts candle fuel

Michael Faraday

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Video thumbnail: Bayes' theorem

Video · 15 min

3Blue1Brown / Grant Sanderson

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publisher-preview: Being faster at both jobs still leaves a tradeoff

Being faster at both jobs still leaves a tradeoff

Marginal Revolution University

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Book cover: Flatland · A sphere visits a two-dimensional world by Edwin A. Abbott

Flatland · A sphere visits a two-dimensional world

Edwin A. Abbott

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How a house fits in a delivery

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Text · Mind and culture

How a metaphor transfers a useful relation into a new problem

E376 · Source reference

Make an analogy earn its place

Michael Erard / Aeon

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Book cover: On Food and Cooking — How a molecular haircut turns milk into curds by Harold McGee

On Food and Cooking — How a molecular haircut turns milk into curds

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video thumbnail: Rain counts time and distance differently

Rain counts time and distance differently

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Book cover: The Evolution of Physics — Why a working model need not be unique by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld

The Evolution of Physics — Why a working model need not be unique

Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld

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publisher-preview: The World as 100 People over the last two centuries

The World as 100 People over the last two centuries

Max Roser · Our World in Data

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Book cover: Thinking In Systems · The bathtub: stocks, flows, and equilibrium by Donella H. Meadows

Thinking In Systems · The bathtub: stocks, flows, and equilibrium

Donella H. Meadows

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publisher-preview: What illusionism claims about consciousness

What illusionism claims about consciousness

Keith Frankish / Aeon

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When a category grows beyond its wording

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video thumbnail: Why fire needs a push before it can keep going

Why fire needs a push before it can keep going

Richard Feynman / Christopher Sykes / BBC

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