How Things Work
The purpose of this site is to take the mystery out of how things work.
There’s a whole world of everyday stuff out there just begging for an answer to the question, “How does that work”? Or, “Why does that work”? Or even better yet, “What caused that to happen?
It’s fun to figure out how things work and what causes them to happen. It gives us hands on experience in science and often increases our interest in whats going on in the world around us.
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