The Kid Should See This: Archive

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These are by French artist Etienne Cliquet. The. Kid. Was. Riveted. Flotilla is a series of videos of micro-origamis (2 or 3 centimeters long) which are opening slowly onto the surface of the water by capillarity. Thanks, @mama_bean.

Sep 1st

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Aug 31st

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There’s no sound and it’s short. But it’s sweet and should be watched full screen: Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds from Western Australia, by Colin Legg.

Aug 31st

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Aug 31st

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Aug 29th

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Lightning strikes during a Toronto thunderstorm. by Jon Simonassi (@jonsimo).

Aug 27th

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Food coloring tests and a robot water strider? We love @SciFri! Water striders don’t really stride, they row on the water. But their legs are spindly and don’t seem good for paddling. To find out exactly how water striders propel themselves mechanical engineer David Hu, of Georgia Tech, filmed them rowing on food coloring and built his own robostrider. From Science Friday.

Aug 26th

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Aug 26th

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Aug 25th

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Hello SwissMiss and Kottke Readers!

It’s been a fun day around here today(!) since The Kid Should See This was mentioned on SwissMiss. Not long after that, Jason also mentioned the site. He posted this on Kottke.org: With obvious exceptions, media “made for kids” is mindnumbingly dumb. YouTube, Flickr, and Vimeo are amazing resources of not-made-for-kids but totally-appropriate-for-kids stuff like what Rion is...

Aug 25th

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