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The jazz of a helium ball & charcoal – Karina Smigla-Bobinski’s ADA

Rion NakayaAugust 28, 2015June 24, 2021

Daifuku Mochi: Making Japanese rice cakes at Nakatani-dou

Rion NakayaFebruary 5, 2015January 5, 2021

One Town, Four Elements: Ytterby

Rion NakayaFebruary 28, 2017July 31, 2020

The Ring of Truth: Two Hydrogen Atoms & One Oxygen Atom

Rion NakayaJanuary 15, 2015February 13, 2023

Is this the world’s smallest wild species of cat?

Rion NakayaJanuary 12, 2018January 12, 2018

How Kanazawa gold leaf is made

Rion NakayaSeptember 26, 2017

A racket flattens a tennis ball at 142 mph in slow motion

Rion NakayaJuly 2, 2015October 1, 2015

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Carving Godzilla out of solid wood

Rion NakayaDecember 8, 2023December 8, 2023

Watch Godzilla emerge from a huge, rough chunk of mahogany wood in this 8.5-minute Woodart Vietnam video. The studio’s skilled artisans dedicated 25 days to the carving...

Personification by The Bazillions

Rion NakayaDecember 8, 2023December 7, 2023

The flowers danced in the wind. The clock screams in my ear. The sun smiled down on us. All of these are examples of personification, a literary...

Making a four strand rope of tarred hemp using a historic ropewalk

Rion NakayaDecember 7, 2023December 7, 2023

In northern Europe during the 1600s, rope was made by hand from natural materials like hemp or flax using a ropewalk. By the early 1800s, the demand...

Decorating 9 winter-themed cookies with royal icing

Rion NakayaDecember 7, 2023December 7, 2023

With outlines and only four flooded colors in two different consistencies of royal icing, these winter-themed cookies come together quickly. The Graceful Baker makes the decorating look...

From pinecone to pine tree, a 300-day time-lapse

Rion NakayaDecember 6, 2023December 7, 2023

A conifer cone or pinecone is the seed-bearing part of a gymnosperm, which “reproduces by means of an exposed seed, or ovule.” In this Boxlapse video, a...

Droids in Training: Disney Imagineers conduct a playtest

Rion NakayaDecember 6, 2023December 7, 2023

Excellent balance, animation-like movements, adorable interactions. These are the droids we’re looking for. The Disney Research and Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development teams have used cutting-edge...

What stories will the Mars rock samples tell us?

Rion NakayaDecember 5, 2023

Sending a 1,025 kilogram (2,260 pound) robotic vehicle with sensitive sampling equipment (and the first-ever space helicopter) to Mars was already audacious. What is it to transport...

The Becorns Birdbath Challenge

Rion NakayaDecember 5, 2023December 7, 2023

“A couple of years ago,” David M. Bird begins, “I saw some pictures of a splashing bird, and they were just so funny.” “I normally think of...

Wild ice skating on Alaska’s remote lakes

Rion NakayaDecember 4, 2023

Ice Rescue Instructor Luc Mehl spends his work and play time outdoors in Alaska where he grew up. In the 1m37s video above, he films his wife...

A rare zebra birth at the Chester Zoo

Rion NakayaDecember 4, 2023December 4, 2023

In 2016, visitors at England’s Chester Zoo were surprised by the afternoon birth of a Grevy’s zebra. With her daughter Merida at her side and keepers monitoring...

Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise, one of the most colorful animals on the planet

Rion NakayaDecember 1, 2023

In the dense forests of Western Papua’s Waigeo island, a vibrant male Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise meticulously clears the forest floor of leaves. This preparation marks the beginning of...

Stop-motion paper animates the Pythagorean theorem

Rion NakayaDecember 1, 2023December 1, 2023

This Educational Solutions video from 2010 demonstrates the Pythagorean Theorem . It’s set to an electronic instrumental titled Popcorn, which was first recorded in 1969. Watch as...

Linda signs signs, a classic from Sesame Street

Rion NakayaDecember 1, 2023November 25, 2023

How do you sign ‘one way’ or ‘don’t walk’ in American Sign Language? In this classic 1980 clip of Sesame Street, Linda, Sesame Street‘s local librarian, demonstrates...

Little Land by Diana Sudyka, a picture book storytime video

Rion NakayaNovember 30, 2023November 30, 2023

It’s hard to truly understand the changes that Earth has gone through over the last 200 years, let alone the last 500,000,000 or 4,500,000,000. But “from the...

Animal idioms: Where does “straight from the horse’s mouth” come from?

Rion NakayaNovember 30, 2023November 30, 2023

What does it mean when someone says, “I found out straight from the horse’s mouth?” Do they know a talking horse? From Nature PBS’ Say What?! video...

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