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Danny MacAskill’s Postcard from San Francisco

Rion NakayaDecember 6, 2022

This epic video postcard features Scottish street trials and mountain bike riding pro Danny MacAskill as he tests his years of skill on the streets of San...

Birdsong, an animation about Hawaii’s Kaua’i ‘ō’ō

Rion NakayaDecember 6, 2022

Birdsong is an animated short by CalArts animation student Michelle Cheng. The evocative conservation story was inspired by the experiences of the late field biologist John Sincock,...

Flame Rainbow, a colorful chemistry demonstration by Chem Talk

Rion NakayaDecember 6, 2022

This Flame Rainbow video demonstration safely shares how different metal ions produce different flames. The team at Chem Talk prepared metal salts containing these different ions and...

How do satellites stay in orbit?

Rion NakayaDecember 5, 2022

“How do you keep an orbiting satellite hovering above a single point over a rotating planet? Well, it seems simple: you just slow your satellite down until...

How to make a giant chocolate hazelnut butter cup

Rion NakayaDecember 5, 2022December 5, 2022

If you like peanut butter cups, or any nut butter cup, from the candy aisle, then watch this: Bon Appétit food editor Shilpa Uskokovic likes them, too,...

Thread painting a European Robin, a hand embroidery demonstration

Rion NakayaDecember 2, 2022December 1, 2022

How does embroidery artist Yulia Sherbak illustrate the fuzz, fur, and feathers of cute animals with a needle and thread? What is thread painting? In this Moss...

Chromatic Lattice Sculptures: Assembly instructions by Pneuhaus

Rion NakayaDecember 1, 2022

Pneuhaus’ Chromatic Lattice sculptures are made with 3D-printed, multi-pronged connectors and small tubes. The design of these color patterns creates a dynamic object as the viewer moves...

The Book Of Leaves, a stop-motion exploration of leaf shapes

Rion NakayaDecember 1, 2022

Watch as leaves transition from green to yellow to red, from species to species. This observant animated sequence was created by Oakland, California-based engineer and stop-motion animator...

How do you keep common marmosets happy?

Rion NakayaNovember 30, 2022November 30, 2022

Endemic to Northeast Brazil, common marmosets are small monkeys with poofy white ear tufts, sharp claws, long banded tails, and expressive faces. In this Billabong Zoo, Koala,...

The Tart Adage from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Rion NakayaNovember 30, 2022

A garden party on a sunny afternoon. Alice. A white rabbit and a rabbit hole… a caterpillar, a Cheshire cat, a Mad Hatter, and eventually a Queen...

How can playing professional tennis change your body?

Rion NakayaNovember 29, 2022

Tennis is a demanding sport, and the impact forces on the players’ racket arms are intense. How does professional tennis change players’ bodies? In this BBC Earth...

Egg Drop From Space

Rion NakayaNovember 29, 2022November 29, 2022

The Egg Drop is a fantastic physics and engineering challenge for all ages: Design a container that will protect your raw egg during a fall and crash...

Living with a Wild Bird: What’s it like to become a falconer?

Rion NakayaNovember 28, 2022November 28, 2022

In this PBS video, one of six additional stories inspired by the show America Outdoors, host Baratunde Thurston meets with falconer Hesper Lana Fang and an American...

A chunk of the Perito Moreno Glacier breaks off and flips

Rion NakayaNovember 28, 2022November 28, 2022

A massive chunk of glacial ice breaks off—calves—from Perito Moreno Glacier in this 2.5 minute video shared by Licet Studios. A popular tourist destination, the freshwater glacier’s...

Baby to 7-years-old: A daddy-daughter performance of “Moon River”

Rion NakayaNovember 21, 2022

In this lovely performance of Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer‘s Moon River, seven years pass by in six and a half minutes. British classical pianist Paul Barton...

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