The Kid Should See This.
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There's just so much science, nature, music, art, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen. It's most likely not stuff that was made for them...
But we don't underestimate kids around here.
Kid-friendly not-made-for-kids videos for all! Collected by Rion Nakaya and her three four year old co-curator.
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It’s not magic, kiddo. It’s science!
Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a colorless, odorless gas that is more dense than air at 6.12 g/L (at sea level). This density is why you can pour it into a glass container and float a light-weight aluminum “boat” on its gas “sea.” Watch this demonstration at the Physikshow of the University of Bonn!
via Quora.
At the end of October 2011, Thomas Senkel of e-volo made the first manned flight with an e-powered multicopter at an airstrip in the southwest of Germany. The flight lasted one minute and 30 seconds, after which the constructor and test pilot stated: “The flight characteristics are good natured. Without any steering input it would just hover there on the spot”. This could be the future of flight, piloting a device as simple as a car.
Via Gizmodo.
Who knew that a koi pond could have a built-in “skyscraper” so that the fish could look across their landscape… or think they’re swimming in the sky. Either way, they really seem to like it.
Via Neatorama.
The kid is big on blowing away dandelion seeds, as am I. And then we saw this installation by German artist Regine Ramseier, who preserved and hung 2,000 dandelion seed heads from the ceiling. Wow.
via This Is Colossal.
