Starvard Treasures

Wonderful free things, gathered for you.

The internet is full of generous people who make beautiful, useful, playful things and give them away. Starvard hunts them down, tries them first, and gathers the best here. Every treasure is free.

12 treasures so farMade by other people, with loveAlways free

Earth, sky and space

The planet and the Moon, seen clearly.

Relive the Moon landing, minute by minuteThe whole Moon mission, replayed on its own clock with the real voices.Apollo 11 in Real Time The world in charts you can trustHow the world is really changing, in charts that show their sources.Our World in Data

Play, trust and puzzles

Small playable things that teach big ideas while you smile.

How a computer finds the shortest pathWatch three pathfinding methods race across maps you can change.Introduction to the A* Algorithm A town of triangles and squaresDrag unhappy shapes around a town and watch mild preferences divide it.Parable of the Polygons Why do we trust each other?A playable story about why trust grows, and why it breaks.The Evolution of Trust

Science you can touch

Science you can poke, watch and play with, from Brown, Caltech and beyond.

Watch electricity flow through a circuitFlip switches live and watch current flow as moving dots.Falstad Circuit Simulator Geometry in bold colourEuclid's geometry rebuilt in bold colour, proof by proof.Byrne's Euclid Physics from a teacher who loved itLegendary physics lectures, free to read online.The Feynman Lectures on Physics Probability you can play withProbability and statistics as pictures you can play with.Seeing Theory

Books, words and big questions

Old books, famous letters and strange cabinets of curiosities.

Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's own handThe Frankenstein manuscripts in Mary Shelley's own hand.Shelley-Godwin Archive A cabinet of curious old worksA treasure cabinet of strange and wonderful old works.The Public Domain Review

Music and sound

Make music with no lessons and no wrong notes.

Play with sound, no lessons neededMusic toys anyone can play, no lessons and no wrong notes.Chrome Music Lab

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