Free chapters

Free chapters

Chapter 1 of five real courses, exactly as the app wrote them. Each one is 10 cards, takes about 5 minutes, and ends with the same quiz you’d get in the app. No account needed.

History

Why did the Roman Empire fall?

Why 476 is the wrong date, why Rome was not the capital, and what actually stopped working.

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Hardware

How does a computer processor actually work?

How a chip made of tiny switches ends up running everything on your phone.

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Science

Why do we sleep?

Every animal does something dangerous for a third of its life, and nobody can say for certain why.

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Economics

What actually causes inflation?

Why "too much money" is only half an answer, and why expectations do most of the work.

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Technology

How does GPS know where you are?

Your phone works out where it is by timing radio signals, and relativity matters more than you’d think.

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Each course is about 50 cards over 5 chapters, so this is the first tenth. Chapter 1 works on its own, so you don’t have to carry on to get something out of it.

If none of these is what you want to know, the app will write a course on whatever you ask. Get the app, or read how the courses are made.