Thought it was going to tell me how to explore the block chain, not explain what Bitcoin is and what each block's fields mean.

Exploring the blockchain, e.g. determining a relation between addresses, seems much more interesting.

ditto, I've been looking for a better way to analyze the block chain but half the things I find seem to be defunct projects.

Depending on how deep you want to go, here's a fast little blockchain parser that will parse the blockchain into a SQL database or text file(s) for your viewing pleasure:

https://github.com/znort987/blockparser

Bitcoin Abe is about the best thing I've found.

https://github.com/bitcoin-abe/bitcoin-abe

here is from Russian reddit like community too http://leprocoin.org

2014 will be a year of coins I guess