explainer
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Co-directed with Nick Gibbons, the 2018 short takes the structure of a video-game explainer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
A "Defence Investment Plan Funding explainer", external published by the government outlines that £700m will be saved from the Department of Transport from its roads funding.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
This will keep 400,000 affordable homes intact for families, according to a bill explainer from the Senate Finance Committee.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
WSJ’s visual explainer walks through the complicated science behind the technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
A "natural" death in the dungeons of the Inquisition saved Antonio de Dominis, the explainer of the rainbow, from the same fate, but his body and books were publicly burned at Rome in 1624.
From Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge