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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...

How are chess pieces made by hand?

Rion NakayaNovember 21, 2022November 22, 2022

“Amritsar, northwest India: Home to the Golden Temple, the most important site of Sikhism. But a thousand years before the first Golden Temple was built, people in...

The Labord’s chameleon and its “race against time”

Rion NakayaNovember 17, 2022November 17, 2022

“Tiny Labord’s chameleons, only 3cm long, begin to hatch. They live for only four months – the shortest lifespan of any land vertebrate. For this young male,...

The Running of the Goats at Sunflower Farm Creamery

Rion NakayaNovember 17, 2022

What does it sound like when 33 bucklings and 27 doelings run around a farm looking for their 22 mamas? This celebratory video from Sunflower Farm Creamery...

How did Petrit Halilaj become an artist?

Rion NakayaNovember 17, 2022November 17, 2022

How did Petrit Halilaj become an artist? How did he transform the traumas of war into personal expressions shared through this nest of massive flowers or avian...

What is Ocean Stratification?

Rion NakayaNovember 17, 2022

“The ocean and your favorite vinaigrette may have more in common than you think. Water has different densities depending on temperature and salinity. So, the coldest, saltiest...

Flintknapping, the Cherokee tradition of carving sharp tools

Rion NakayaNovember 15, 2022

With a good piece of leather to protect his leg and a pile of hammerstones and antlers at his side, Cherokee craftsman Noel Grayson creates a workspace...

How do touchscreens actually work?

Rion NakayaNovember 14, 2022November 14, 2022

“In 2010, South Korea experienced a particularly cold winter. People couldn’t activate their smartphones while wearing gloves, so they began wielding snack sausages— causing one company to...

An Arabian horse gives birth to a healthy filly

Rion NakayaNovember 14, 2022November 14, 2022

How are foals born? Arabian Horse Family, a family-run horse club in Thailand, shares the how mother Isabella gave birth to a filly named Amirah. The full...

Wool Production and Processing, an animated explainer

Rion NakayaNovember 14, 2022

This animated promotional video by the not-for-profit Woolmark Company shares how Merino wool makes its way from Merino sheep on 60,000 Australian farms—where it’s “grown on the...

Guinea pigs live wild in the garden

Rion NakayaNovember 11, 2022November 11, 2022

At Bosgoed Animal Paradise, 80 guinea pigs live wild in a bucolic garden. They enjoy a chicken feed breakfast, graze on fresh grass, wander wherever they’d like,...

Who carved these mysterious giant drawings in the Peruvian desert?

Rion NakayaNovember 10, 2022November 10, 2022

“The Nazca were an ancient group of farmers and fishermen that used desert plateaus as a canvas for giant geoglyphs. But some of these drawings pre-date the...

The Fiercest Ocean Predators (that are also super tiny)

Rion NakayaNovember 10, 2022November 14, 2022

Shrink down and discover the wonderful lives of the tiny, the miniature, the microworlds… including the Fiercest Ocean Predators. Hakai Institute shares how small yet ferocious aquatic...

I’m Only Sleeping: Em Cooper’s 1,300 oil painting animation for The Beatles

Rion NakayaNovember 9, 2022

Emmy-nominated director Em Cooper specializes in fluid animations created from hand-painted oil paintings. Her 2022 music video for The Beatles‘ “I’m Only Sleeping” pairs her signature animation...

How does this Japanese screw factory produce 400,000 screws every day?

Rion NakayaNovember 9, 2022

At the Asai Screw Manufacturing Company in Soka City, Japan, machines transform spools of long wire rods into 400,000 screws every day. This promotional video from Japan’s...

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