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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Early this morning at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, SpaceX launched the first ever private spacecraft — the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — to the International Space Station on an unmanned mission to deliver food, clothes, other supplies, and science experiments to the astronauts who are currently stationed there. And this is only the first of 11 more planned flights to the space station. Incredible and historic!!!
And stay til the end of the video, where at around the 10m mark, Falcon 9 and Dragon go into orbit and we get to see Mission Control, and (eventually) some (relieved) high fives and hugs.
from NASA Television. (Updated with embed-capable video.)
From Science Friday, behold A Spacesuit Ballet:
Of the suit he wore on the moon, Neil Armstrong wrote, “it was tough, reliable, and almost cuddly.” But that cuddly suit, made by the company Playtex, had some stiff competition (literally) from rival rigid, metal designs. This video features archival NASA footage of mobility tests for several spacesuit prototypes. Music is from the band One Ring Zero’s album “Planets”.
When I looked up Google’s Driverless Car, I ran into this Model T assembly line video on US History Educator Blog. The video not only shows the revolution of progressive assembly in Henry Ford’s factories (which changed how things are made around the globe), but some surprising 100 year old footage of how sturdy the Model T was on rough dirt roads, through snow, through rivers, down steep hills… down embankments more than a few feet high…
“James Cameron and his team pull together a new CGI of how they believe the Titanic sank and reached the ocean floor…” which completely fascinated the kid. We get National Geographic magazine (which featured the Titanic for the April 15th, 100th anniversary of its sinking) and to see their still images turned into this animation was a treat for him. It was a treat for me to see him paying attention to the physics of it — how it sunk and broke in half from the stress, its size and weight, falling and hitting bottom in water. Also: bada bing, bada boom.
via Devour.
It’s another super detailed Moon tour!!! The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter team and the folks at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center bring us more fascinating information about the rich and violent 4.5 billion year history of the moon, all in celebration of the LRO’s 1000th day in orbit.
via @spacefuture.
What is a year? It’s a question I get asked a fair amount around here… What’s a year? How many days until Saturday? How many minutes in an hour? How long until I can play games on your iPhone? But I digress…
Minute Physics explains what a year is. And if you and your kid(s) want more calendar mathematics after that, then follow it up with this explanation about leap year!
via Gizmodo.
Oh, British Pathé! You and this Dynasphere are both awesome. The kid should definitely see how crazy this vehicle is! From wikipedia:
The Dynasphere was a monowheel electric vehicle invented in 1932 by Dr. J. A. Purves from Taunton, Somerset, UK. It had 2.5 horse power and once attained a speed of 25 mph.
And there are more monowheels to be seen, via the Retronaut.
