Thing Explainer

Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

By: Randall Munroe

in thing explainer: complicated stuff in simple words, things are explained in the style of up goer five, using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words. explore computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use to steer a plane (airliner cockpit controls), and the little bags of water you're made of (cells).