<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Glassbox</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/</link><description>One open-source interactive explainer, every day. Play with it, break it, read the code.</description><item><title>No. 085: How does naturopathy work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/naturopathyclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/naturopathyclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Hip baths, mud packs, fasting and sunshine: naturopathy heals without medicines, and Gandhi was its biggest fan. Walk its 200-year story from a Silesian water cure to Urulikanchan, see its five-element model as it tells it, then watch what hot water, cold water and a 3-day fast really do inside you, and where the evidence stands.</description></item><item><title>No. 084: How does Siddha medicine work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/siddhaclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/siddhaclear/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Siddha, the Tamil system of medicine, reads the pulse for three humours, drops sesame oil on urine and fires minerals at 800 °C. See how it works in its own terms, then what fair tests and lab safety checks actually show.</description></item><item><title>No. 083: How does modern medicine (allopathy) work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/medicineclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/medicineclear/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Why does &#39;I took it and got better&#39; prove nothing? Run a hundred fake trials of a useless pill, watch a rare-disease test flag 20 healthy people for every sick one, and see how India went from a life expectancy of 32 to 70.</description></item><item><title>No. 082: How does Unani medicine work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/unaniclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/unaniclear/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Unani means “Greek”: a 2,400-year-old system that travelled from Hippocrates to Baghdad to Delhi. Follow Ibn Sina’s Canon across a map, move a patient’s mizaj across the hot–cold, moist–dry board, work out the suction in a hijama cup, and run a fair trial to see what the evidence really says.</description></item><item><title>No. 081: How does homeopathy work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/homeopathyclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/homeopathyclear/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Dilute a remedy 1 in 100, shake it, and repeat thirty times. Count the molecules with Avogadro&#39;s number, watch them run out at 12C, find out why 30C would need 10¹⁵ oceans to hold one, then run a fair test against a dummy pill.</description></item><item><title>No. 080: How does Ayurveda work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/ayurvedaclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/ayurvedaclear/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Half of India used an AYUSH system last year, and Ayurveda most of all. Build the five elements into vata, pitta and kapha, boil a kwatha down to a quarter, follow sarpagandha root into a blood-pressure pill, then run a fair trial and see how bias fools us.</description></item><item><title>No. 079: How do AI video models work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/videomodelclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/videomodelclear/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Every AI video starts as pure static. Watch a real diffusion model pull a picture out of noise in your browser, steer it with a prompt, see why frames flicker when they are made one at a time, and test whether a hidden watermark survives an edit.</description></item><item><title>No. 078: How does image recognition work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/visionclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/visionclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>To a computer, a mango is 2,304 numbers. Here a tiny camera renders one, hand-made filters find its edges, and a real neural network learns to tell mangoes from bananas, chillies and coins right in your browser. Then it finds them in a scene, draws boxes and masks, and gets fooled by invisible noise.</description></item><item><title>No. 077: How does AI inference work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/inferenceclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/inferenceclear/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Training a model happens once; using it happens billions of times. Watch a frozen network answer questions, light up a grid of multiply-adds, see why a chatbot&#39;s speed is set by memory, shrink a model to 4 bits and break it at 2, and follow one question into a 120 kW rack and back.</description></item><item><title>No. 076: How do large language models (LLMs) work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/llmclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/llmclear/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Every chatbot answer is built one guess at a time. Train a real tiny language model on a paragraph about monsoons and chai, watch a tokenizer chop Hindi into bytes, click a word to see what it attends to, and catch the model saying something false with total confidence.</description></item><item><title>No. 075: How do neural networks work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/neuralnetclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/neuralnetclear/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A neural network is just multiply, add and squash, done millions of times with weights it learns from examples. Here they really compute and train in your browser: tune a neuron by hand, watch a hidden layer bend a boundary, roll a ball down a loss valley until it flies out, draw a digit for a network trained on the spot, and catch a big network memorising noise.</description></item><item><title>No. 074: How does a computer work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/computerclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/computerclear/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A computer is billions of switches following a list of tiny instructions, one clock tick at a time. Take a desktop apart, type your name and see its bytes, and step a real 8-bit CPU through fetch, decode and execute.</description></item><item><title>No. 073: How does a calculator work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/calculatorclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/calculatorclear/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Press 7 and a chip scans a grid of wires, waits out the bounce and stores 0111. Build the adder from real logic gates, watch the carry ripple, and see why 1 ÷ 3 × 3 can come out as 0.9999999.</description></item><item><title>No. 072: How does a pager work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/pagerclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/pagerclear/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Before mobiles, a beep on your belt meant someone needed you. Open a 1990s pager in 3D, type a message into a real POCSAG encoder, add radio noise and watch ten check bits repair it.</description></item><item><title>No. 071: How does a mobile phone work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/mobileclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/mobileclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Your phone is a two-way radio that shouts to a tower up to a few kilometres away, proves who you are with a secret key, and hands your call from cell to cell without a click. Pull one apart in 3D, drive through a city of towers, and watch bits blur in the noise.</description></item><item><title>No. 070: How does a telephone work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/telephoneclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/telephoneclear/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Your voice squeezes a pinch of carbon, a current copies the sound, and a switch that steps once per pulse finds the other phone. Take a rotary phone apart in 3D, dial it, ring it, and hear why calls sound so &quot;telephone-y&quot;.</description></item><item><title>No. 069: How does a fax machine work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/faxclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/faxclear/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A fax turns your page into 2 million dots, squeezes them 10 to 20 times with a clever code book, and sings them down a phone line. Scan your own drawing, read the real run codes, hear the handshake, and watch line noise smear a page until error correction fixes it.</description></item><item><title>No. 068: How does a printer work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/printerclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/printerclear/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A heater boils ink into a bubble in three millionths of a second. A laser draws your page in static electricity. Open up an inkjet and a laser printer in 3D and watch every dot land.</description></item><item><title>No. 067: How does a cinema projector work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/projectorclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/projectorclear/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A Maltese cross that stops the film 24 times a second, a shutter that flashes every frame twice, and a chip with 9 million tilting mirrors. Step into the booth and see how a cinema throws a picture 30 metres onto a wall.</description></item><item><title>No. 066: How does colour grading work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/gradeclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/gradeclear/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Film a street, three faces and a sunset in 3D, then grade them yourself. A real grading pipeline runs on your graphics card: log footage through a 3D LUT, lift, gamma and gain wheels you can drag, live waveform, parade and vectorscope, a tracked power window, teal and orange, and HDR in nits.</description></item><item><title>No. 065: How does film editing work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/editclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/editclear/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Three cameras filmed the same café scene. Cut it yourself on a live timeline, drag a cut on an opening door until it jumps, put the same blank face next to soup or a coffin, and speed a scene up from 10-second shots to 1.5.</description></item><item><title>No. 064: How does virtual production work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/virtualprodclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/virtualprodclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The desert behind the actor is a wall of LEDs, redrawn 24 times a second for exactly where the camera stands. Step inside a working LED volume: move the tracked camera, change the sunset, pull focus onto the pixels, and move a mountain from the brain bar.</description></item><item><title>No. 063: How does motion capture work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/mocapclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/mocapclear/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A mocap camera never sees the actor, only bright dots on black. Walk a faceless performer through a ring of infrared cameras, cross the rays that pin each marker to a fraction of a millimetre, hand the motion to a four-armed creature, solve a face from helmet-camera dots, and watch an inertial suit drift away.</description></item><item><title>No. 062: How do visual effects (VFX) work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/vfxclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/vfxclear/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Film an actor on a rock in front of a green wall, then turn it into a valley with an airship overhead. Key a real green screen, track a shaky camera, stack render passes, roto a leaping stuntman and grow eight extras into a city of thousands, all running live on your graphics card.</description></item><item><title>No. 061: How does CGI rendering work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/cgiclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/cgiclear/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Every frame of an animated film starts as millions of rays fired from a camera that does not exist. Run a real ray tracer and path tracer in your browser, watch the noise melt as samples pile up, and work out why Toy Story needed about 800,000 machine-hours.</description></item><item><title>No. 060: How does 3D animation work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/anim3dclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/anim3dclear/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Toy Story&#39;s 114,240 frames took about 800,000 computer-hours to render. Build a robot&#39;s head from a cube, rig its arm with real IK, key a hop in a graph editor, unfold its skin to paint it, blow its cape around with a cloth sim and send a shot down the studio pipeline.</description></item><item><title>No. 059: How does stop-motion animation work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/stopmotionclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/stopmotionclear/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>One minute of stop-motion is 1,440 photos, and a good animator makes about four seconds a week. Nudge a clay chai-wallah frame by frame, look inside his metal skeleton, make him talk with swapped mouths, ghost the last frames with onion skin, and plan your own film on a phone.</description></item><item><title>No. 058: How does 2D animation work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/anim2dclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/anim2dclear/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Every cartoon is a pile of drawings. Flip a flip-book, fill in a jump between key poses, switch the 12 principles on and off on a bouncing ball, spread cels out under a multiplane camera, and make a mango-headed kid talk.</description></item><item><title>No. 057: How do film sound and Foley work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/filmsoundclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/filmsoundclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Most of what you hear in a film was never recorded on set. Hang a boom mic just out of shot, snap celery for breaking bones, build a monster&#39;s roar from three layers, re-voice a line in sync, and fly a helicopter over your head in Dolby Atmos.</description></item><item><title>No. 056: How do practical special effects work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/sfxclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/sfxclear/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Film rain is often heavier than a monsoon cloudburst, yet it vanishes on camera unless it is lit from behind. Run a rain bar and a wind machine, shatter a sugar-glass window, fly a performer on a counterweight, drive an animatronic&#39;s servos and fire a gas flame bar, safety checklist first.</description></item><item><title>No. 055: How does film lighting work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/lightingclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/lightingclear/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A film set is dark until someone decides where every shadow falls. Drag a key light round a face, turn a hard lamp soft, dial tungsten into daylight, flip a scene from sitcom to noir, and light a dinner table where every face must still read.</description></item><item><title>No. 054: How does a cinema camera work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/cinecameraclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/cinecameraclear/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A spinning shutter that is dark half the time, glass filters that throw away nine stops of sunlight, and a crew member whose whole job is turning one focus wheel. Film a tiny 3D set through a working cinema camera and see what makes moving pictures different.</description></item><item><title>No. 053: How does concept art work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/conceptartclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/conceptartclear/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Before a film builds a single set, someone paints it. Design a robot auto-rickshaw from twelve black silhouettes, paint a monsoon street in greys then colour, paint over a 3D blockout, and draw a forest spirit from every side.</description></item><item><title>No. 052: How do screenplays and storyboards work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/storyboardclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/storyboardclear/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Before a camera rolls, a film already exists twice: as a script where one page is about one minute, and as a comic strip of every shot. Write a scene, board it from a 3D camera, cross the 180-degree line and play your own animatic.</description></item><item><title>No. 051: How does a film get made?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/filmclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/filmclear/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A two-hour film is 172,800 still photos, cut from 100 hours of footage by hundreds of people. Walk a film can across a studio lot, spin a zoetrope, run a take with a clapperboard, split a budget, and plan your own five-shot film on a phone.</description></item><item><title>No. 050: How does the reproductive system work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/reproductionclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/reproductionclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Two small sets of organs, deep in the pelvis, can start a whole new person. See the organs as clean diagrams, watch the brain switch on puberty, run the 28-day cycle as a clock, follow one sperm and one egg become a ball of cells, and grow a baby from a lentil to a watermelon.</description></item><item><title>No. 049: How does the immune system work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/immuneclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/immuneclear/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Every day your marrow makes about 100 billion new defenders. Push a dirty splinter into the skin and watch neutrophils eat the bacteria, find the one B cell whose receptor fits a virus, and slide a crowd past measles&#39; 93% herd-immunity line.</description></item><item><title>No. 048: How does the endocrine system work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/endocrineclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/endocrineclear/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Nine small glands, from a pea under your brain to the islets in your pancreas, run your body by sending chemical messages in the blood. Watch only the cells with the right lock respond, kick a hormone and see negative feedback pull it back, race a nerve against a hormone, and grow a baby into an adult.</description></item><item><title>No. 047: How do your muscles move you?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/muscleclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/muscleclear/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>More than 600 muscles, a third of your body, and every one can only pull. Peel a body down to its muscles, zoom into a sarcomere to watch myosin heads tug on actin with ATP, work out how hard your biceps pulls, and race the three energy systems.</description></item><item><title>No. 046: How does the skeletal system work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/skeletonclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/skeletonclear/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Your skeleton is 206 living bones: a frame, a shield, a set of levers and a blood factory. Count every bone, cut a femur open, bend five kinds of joint, feel how hard your biceps pulls, watch a growth plate close and a broken bone knit.</description></item><item><title>No. 045: How does the nervous system work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/nervousclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/nervousclear/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A brain, a finger-thick cable down your back and nerves that reach your toes carry messages at up to 120 metres a second. Fire a neuron, send a puff of chemicals across a synapse, race your own reaction time against a knee jerk, and slide from calm to fright.</description></item><item><title>No. 044: How does the excretory system work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/excretionclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/excretionclear/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Every day you get rid of about 1 kg of carbon dioxide, a litre and a half of urine and a surprising amount of sweat. See all four ways out in a see-through body, watch the liver lock toxic ammonia into urea, fill a bladder until the brain says go, and swap sweat for urine on a hot day.</description></item><item><title>No. 043: How does the digestive system work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/digestionclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/digestionclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A thali takes seconds in your mouth, hours in your stomach and small intestine, and a day or two in your colon. Follow it through a see-through body, watch enzymes cut starch, protein and fat into pieces, unfold 30 square metres of gut lining, and meet the nerves, hormones and 38 trillion bacteria that run the whole thing.</description></item><item><title>No. 042: How does the respiratory system work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/respirationclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/respirationclear/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>You breathe about 20,000 times a day and never think about it. Follow one breath from your nose to a working muscle cell, and meet the brainstem autopilot that decides when you take the next one.</description></item><item><title>No. 041: How does the circulatory system work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/circulationclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/circulationclear/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Five litres of blood go round your body about once a minute, through a network that reaches almost every cell. Follow one red blood cell to the lungs and back, squeeze an arteriole and watch the flow collapse, see what leaks out of a capillary, and plug a cut.</description></item><item><title>No. 040: How does the skin work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/skinclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/skinclear/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Your skin is your largest organ: about 2 square metres that keeps water in, germs out and your core at 37 °C. Cut open a block of it, follow a cell from birth to flake, sweat through a humid heatwave, feel with five kinds of sensor, and see why skin comes in every shade.</description></item><item><title>No. 039: How do the kidneys work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/kidneyclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/kidneyclear/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Every day your kidneys squeeze about 180 litres out of your blood and quietly put 99% of it back. Zoom into a nephron, push plasma through a three-layer filter, watch ADH turn urine dark, and see how dialysis and transplants took over when kidneys fail.</description></item><item><title>No. 038: How does the pancreas work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/pancreasclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/pancreasclear/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Behind your stomach sits a soft, 15 cm organ that does two jobs at once: it pours out a litre or more of digestive juice a day, and a million tiny islands inside it keep your blood sugar steady with insulin. Take it apart in 3D, watch a beta cell taste sugar, and see what goes wrong in diabetes.</description></item><item><title>No. 037: How does the liver work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/liverclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/liverclear/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Your liver gets blood from two pipes, stores your sugar overnight, turns poison into waste and can grow back after most of it is removed. Zoom from the whole organ into its tiny hexagons and watch blood and bile flow opposite ways.</description></item><item><title>No. 036: How do the intestines work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/intestineclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/intestineclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Between your stomach and the exit lies a folded tube 3 to 5 metres long, with an inner surface of about 30 square metres and 38 trillion bacteria living in it. Unpack the intestines in 3D, zoom down to the villi, and watch a meal of roti, dal and paneer get cut into molecules.</description></item><item><title>No. 035: How does the stomach digest food?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/stomachclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/stomachclear/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Your stomach is a muscular bag of acid strong enough to dissolve meat, yet it doesn&#39;t digest itself. Swallow a bolus, cut the stomach open, watch it churn food into chyme three times a minute, and meet the germ a doctor drank to win a Nobel Prize.</description></item><item><title>No. 034: How does the tongue taste?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/tongueclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/tongueclear/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The tongue map in your school book is a myth, chilli heat is not a taste at all, and most of what you call flavour is really smell. Open up a 3D mouth, watch sugar, salt and glutamate dock on their receptors, and see why milk beats water after a bhut jolokia.</description></item><item><title>No. 033: How does the nose smell?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/noseclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/noseclear/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Your nose is two 10 cm tunnels with a stamp-sized smell patch in the roof, about 400 kinds of receptor, and a direct line to the brain&#39;s memory centres. Sniff air up to the patch, watch molecules fit their receptors, and see why a mango is mostly smell.</description></item><item><title>No. 032: How does the ear hear?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/earclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/earclear/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Your ear turns a wobble of air smaller than an atom into music, speech and warning. Take a 3D ear apart, unroll the cochlea to see where each pitch lands, hear a 20 Hz to 20 kHz sweep, and find out why spinning makes you dizzy.</description></item><item><title>No. 031: How does the eye see?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/eyeclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/eyeclear/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Your eye is a 24 mm camera that focuses by changing the shape of a living lens, turns light into signals with 120 million rods and 6 million cones, and even has a blind spot you never notice. Trace real light rays through a 3D eye, try on glasses, and find your own blind spot.</description></item><item><title>No. 030: How does the brain work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/brainclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/brainclear/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>86 billion neurons, 100 trillion connections and about 20 watts. Take a 3D brain apart, fire a neuron, light up the areas you use to speak, and watch memories move while you sleep.</description></item><item><title>No. 029: How do the lungs work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/lungsclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/lungsclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>You breathe about 20,000 times a day without thinking. Follow one breath from your nose to 480 million tiny air sacs, and watch oxygen slip into your blood.</description></item><item><title>No. 028: How does the heart work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/heartclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/heartclear/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Your heart is two pumps in one, beating about 100,000 times a day without a single instruction from you. Take a 3D heart apart, watch its valves slam shut on every lub-dub, and follow the spark that starts each beat.</description></item><item><title>No. 027: How does a synthesizer work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/synthclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/synthclear/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A synthesizer builds sound from nothing but electricity: oscillators hum, a filter carves, an envelope shapes every note. Play a real synth in your browser, take a Minimoog-style keyboard apart in 3D, and see why two sine waves can ring like a bell.</description></item><item><title>No. 026: How does a harmonium work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/harmoniumclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/harmoniumclear/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Every note on a harmonium is a thin brass tongue buzzing through a slot, fed by air you pump with one hand. Take one apart in 3D, scrape a reed to tune it, pull the stops, hear why its fixed notes got it banned from All India Radio, and play it with your keyboard.</description></item><item><title>No. 025: How does a tabla work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/tablaclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/tablaclear/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Most drums just go thud. The tabla sings a note you can tune to a song, thanks to a black spot of iron-filing paste that C. V. Raman explained in 1920. Play the dayan and bayan in 3D, watch the drumhead&#39;s modes line up, and bend the bass with your palm.</description></item><item><title>No. 024: How does a flute work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/fluteclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/fluteclear/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Nothing inside a flute moves: a jet of breath flips in and out across a sharp edge and the air in the tube does the singing. Play a bamboo bansuri and a silver concert flute in 3D, cover the holes, and blow hard enough to jump an octave.</description></item><item><title>No. 023: How does a guitar work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/guitarclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/guitarclear/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Six strings pulling with 73 kg, a thin spruce top that pumps the air, and a magnet that hears steel move. Pluck, fret and strum a guitar in 3D, then plug it in and push the amp until it clips.</description></item><item><title>No. 022: How does a water heater (geyser) work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/waterheaterclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/waterheaterclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A geyser is a flask with a 2 kW heater inside, and it quietly uses physics you can feel in the shower: hot water floats, water expands, and a magnesium rod dies to save the tank. Take one apart in 3D.</description></item><item><title>No. 021: How does a motorcycle work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/motorcycleclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/motorcycleclear/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>One cylinder firing 70 times a second, a foot lever that clicks a grooved drum, and a bike that turns by falling into the bend. Take an Indian commuter apart in 3D and see why a litre of petrol takes it 60 km.</description></item><item><title>No. 020: How does an MRI machine work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/mriclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/mriclear/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A magnet 30,000 times stronger than Earth&#39;s, a radio that listens to the hydrogen in your body, and a Fourier transform that turns echoes into a picture. Take an MRI scanner apart in 3D and make T1 and T2 contrast yourself.</description></item><item><title>No. 019: How does a CT scanner work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/ctscanclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/ctscanclear/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A CT scanner spins an X-ray tube around you three times a second, takes about a thousand shadows each turn, and a computer turns them into slices of your body. Take one apart in 3D, then rebuild a slice yourself with real maths.</description></item><item><title>No. 018: How does an X-ray machine work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/xrayclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/xrayclear/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>An X-ray is a shadow made of light you can&#39;t see. Fire electrons at spinning tungsten, send the beam through a body, and catch what gets out. Build the machine in 3D and make your own X-ray picture.</description></item><item><title>No. 017: How does an air fryer work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/airfryerclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/airfryerclear/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>An air fryer never fries. It is a tiny, ferocious fan oven. Take one apart in 3D, race a potato cube in fast and still air, watch a chip&#39;s surface sit at 100 °C until it dries and browns, and see why a crowded basket cooks unevenly.</description></item><item><title>No. 016: How does a mixer grinder work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/mixerclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/mixerclear/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A motor that spins 20,000 times a minute, blades whose tips hit 200 km/h, and ribs that stop your chutney riding round the jar. Take India&#39;s favourite kitchen machine apart in 3D.</description></item><item><title>No. 015: How does a refrigerator work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/fridgeclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/fridgeclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A fridge doesn&#39;t make cold. It pumps the heat out of your food and dumps it into your kitchen, using a gas that boils at −12 °C. Take a frost-free fridge apart in 3D, follow the refrigerant, grow frost, race bacteria and work out your bill.</description></item><item><title>No. 014: How does a TV work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/tvclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/tvclear/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A TV is a sandwich of a dozen layers, lit from behind by LEDs and switched by 25 million tiny liquid-crystal shutters, sixty times a second. Take one apart in 3D, zoom into its pixels, twist light through a crystal and squeeze 15 billion bits a second down to 15 million.</description></item><item><title>No. 013: How does a dishwasher work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/dishwasherclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/dishwasherclear/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>No bath of water, just 3 litres sprayed round and round by arms that spin on their own recoil. Take a dishwasher apart in 3D and see why it can use a tenth of the water your sink does.</description></item><item><title>No. 012: How does a washing machine work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/washerclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/washerclear/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A washing machine doesn&#39;t scrub your clothes. It lifts them and drops them about once a second, then spins them so hard the drum wall pushes 400 times harder than gravity. Take one apart in 3D and see why it shakes, walks and loves concrete.</description></item><item><title>No. 011: How do a kitchen chimney and gas hob work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/chimneyclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/chimneyclear/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A spark of 14,000 volts, a jet of gas that drags in its own air, and a hood that catches smoke it can barely suck. Take an Indian kitchen&#39;s gas stove and chimney apart in 3D and see why a good flame is blue.</description></item><item><title>No. 010: How does an RO water purifier work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/roclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/roclear/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Your kitchen purifier pushes water so hard that it squeezes out of the salt, through a skin with no real holes. Take an RO purifier apart in 3D, flip osmosis backwards, and see where the other two litres go.</description></item><item><title>No. 009: How does an inverter or UPS work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/upsclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/upsclear/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>When the power cuts out and the fans keep turning, a box in the corner is quietly turning a battery&#39;s DC back into 230 V AC. Take a home inverter and a computer UPS apart in 3D, and watch the switch happen in milliseconds.</description></item><item><title>No. 008: How does a microwave oven work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/microwaveclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/microwaveclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A microwave oven is a radio transmitter in a metal box. Electrons whirl in a magnetron to make 12 cm waves that twist water molecules 2.45 billion times a second. Take one apart in 3D and find the hot spots.</description></item><item><title>No. 007: How does a car work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/carclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/carclear/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Burn a drop of petrol, push a piston, twist a crankshaft, and the road pushes you forward. Take a car apart in 3D, fire a four-cylinder engine in slow motion, and see what torque and horsepower really mean.</description></item><item><title>No. 006: How does a piano work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/pianoclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/pianoclear/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Press a key and a chain of levers flings a felt hammer at steel strings pulling with nearly 20 tonnes. Take a grand piano apart in 3D, slow the hammer down 50 times, and play it yourself.</description></item><item><title>No. 005: How does an air conditioner work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/acclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/acclear/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>An air conditioner doesn&#39;t make cold. It pumps heat out of your room using a fluid that boils at minus 52 °C. Take a split AC apart in 3D and follow the refrigerant round the loop.</description></item><item><title>No. 004: How does a fan work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/fanclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/fanclear/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Tilted blades, a magnetic field that spins, and a breeze that cools you without cooling the air. Take a fan apart in 3D and see why half speed costs one eighth of the power.</description></item><item><title>No. 003: How does a bicycle work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/cycleclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/cycleclear/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Two triangles, a chain and a wheel of thin wires, and a machine that balances itself. Take a bicycle apart in 3D and ride its physics.</description></item><item><title>No. 002: How does a pen work?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/penclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/penclear/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A tiny rolling ball, a slit thinner than a hair, and ink that climbs by itself. Take apart ballpoints and fountain pens in 3D.</description></item><item><title>No. 001: How does a camera actually see?</title><link>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/cameraclear/</link><guid>https://glassbox-production-fd52.up.railway.app/e/cameraclear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A dark box, a hole, and an upside-down world. Take a real camera apart in 3D and learn what aperture, shutter speed and ISO really do.</description></item></channel></rss>