The five minute explainer

Big questions, explained in five minutes.

Why is housing so expensive? What makes a price spike? How did an empire fall, or a vaccine get made? Each video takes one question from science, history or economics and explains it in about five minutes, with mid-century-style animation made with the help of AI tools, and charts drawn to scale.

Every number comes from a primary source: government agencies, official statistics or peer-reviewed research. Sources are listed in each description. Where people disagree, we show both sides and say who argues what.

New explainers every week, plus short versions in Shorts.

Narration uses a synthetic (AI) voice. The research and scripts are checked against the sources by humans.