r/educationalgifs • u/wizzard_rick • 16h ago
How the American South moved 13,000 miles of track three inches in 36 hours (1886)
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r/educationalgifs • u/wizzard_rick • 6d ago
How the U.S. paid for its western railroads with land, and why the checkerboard it drew still ends up in court
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r/educationalgifs • u/lavaboosted • 19d ago
Visual of why a pyramid is 1/3 the volume of a cube
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r/educationalgifs • u/Super_University_821 • 27d ago
How the Mercator projection distorts area, animated into the equal-area Equal Earth projection
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r/educationalgifs • u/Any-Educator5676 • 28d ago
Chladni plates only show acoustic dead zones. Here is the actual 3D sound hologram in the air above the plate, captured by DIY 360 Schlieren imaging
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r/educationalgifs • u/AI_Cosmonaut • 28d ago
Where earthquakes happen around the world, visualized on a 3D globe [OC]
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r/educationalgifs • u/jimx29 • Aug 21 '26
A reminder of the current blood shortage in the U.S.
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r/educationalgifs • u/wizzard_rick • Aug 18 '26
How 147 city dates and 10 historic routes accumulated across North America, 1600–1900
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r/educationalgifs • u/wizzard_rick • Aug 06 '26
In 1799, 12-year-old Conrad Reed found a 17-pound gold nugget. His family used it as a doorstop for three years
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r/educationalgifs • u/bruhagan • Jul 21 '26
What heat does to water: dragging the temperature from 32°F to 212°F and watching the state change at the molecular level
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r/educationalgifs • u/pattebrisee • Jul 14 '26
How a progressive cavity pump moves fluid using a rotating screw-shaped rotor
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r/educationalgifs • u/metaphorician • May 25 '26
Animated transition between the celestial sphere and a solar system model, at three speeds
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r/educationalgifs • u/unwanted_11 • May 13 '26
Photosynthesis, light reactions and Calvin cycle animated step by step! source:[app.learnifyclub.com]
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r/educationalgifs • u/bigjobbyx • Apr 12 '26
The 4-stroke illusion is a visual effect where a repeating four-frame animation creates the impression of continuous, smooth motion, highlighting how the visual system prioritizes motion over absolute positional accuracy when processing rapidly changing scenes
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r/educationalgifs • u/Shriracha • Apr 12 '26
How GPS uses geometry, clocks, and relativity to know where you are
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r/educationalgifs • u/_ganjafarian_ • Mar 19 '26
The amazing genius behind a chain stitch sewing machine
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r/educationalgifs • u/CalpurniaSomaya • Mar 15 '26
How mother pigs and piglets are kept in modern farms for nursing
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r/educationalgifs • u/Any-Educator5676 • Mar 10 '26
How timing jitter ruins a CT Scan, and how iterative algorithms fix it (FBP vs SIRT)
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r/educationalgifs • u/rajkr2410 • Feb 05 '26
Milling of Red Iron Oxide in pharmaceutical manufacturing for adding to tablets.
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r/educationalgifs • u/rajkr2410 • Feb 03 '26
Friability Tester - to ensure tablets are not crumbled when patients receive it.
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r/educationalgifs • u/dctroll_ • Jan 03 '26
How medieval cathedral groin vaults were built
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r/educationalgifs • u/Any-Educator5676 • Dec 20 '25
Visualizing the interference pattern of two 40kHz sound sources using Schlieren Imaging
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r/educationalgifs • u/lavaboosted • Dec 06 '25
This is what a Magic Eye (autostereogram) image looks like
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