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Eastern wild turkeys strut in a meadow

Rion NakayaNovember 22, 2023December 17, 2023

How Joe Hutto parents and talks with wild turkeys

Rion NakayaSeptember 10, 2018December 17, 2023

How to make an apple pie in a pan

Rion NakayaNovember 2, 2021November 2, 2021

Native Hoop Dancer Performs Thunderbird Formation

Rion NakayaJanuary 29, 2021March 16, 2022

Cranberries: How Does It Grow?

Rion NakayaNovember 12, 2014November 21, 2023

Sweet potato vs. yam: What’s the difference?

Rion NakayaNovember 30, 2015January 15, 2022

An 18th-century No-Nails Survival Shelter

Rion NakayaMay 1, 2020May 2, 2023

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How are Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons made?

Rion NakayaNovember 27, 2024

Every Thanksgiving since 1924 (with a brief pause during WWII), towering balloon characters float above...

A firefighter’s raw POV footage in a burning house

Rion NakayaNovember 20, 2024

When flames erupted at a house in Santiago, Chile, the dedicated firefighters of the Third...

How did Yoko Ono become a conceptual artist?

Rion NakayaNovember 20, 2024

In popular culture, Yoko Ono is associated with singer-songwriter John Lennon, but her story as...

Color-Changing Chemistry: How to make botanical ink

Rion NakayaNovember 19, 2024

In a hands-on tutorial from the artist-run Oxygen Art Centre in Nelson, British Columbia, Jaymie Johnson demonstrates how kitchen scraps can become vibrant, color-changing botanical inks. By...

Charlie Chaplin and the hall of mirrors in The Circus (1928)

Rion NakayaNovember 19, 2024

Before digital effects or CGI, filmmakers had to be creative with cameras, props, and clever staging to make movie magic happen. In this clip from Charlie Chaplin’s...

Explore red, yellow, and blue with MoMA’s 8-minute color meditation

Rion NakayaNovember 18, 2024

“Color gives life a story and helps tell a story. Color creates meaning and association. Color helps us to shape our thoughts, evoke emotions, and even influence...

How did this drone team capture Volcán de Fuego’s unpredictable blasts?

Rion NakayaNovember 18, 2024November 19, 2024

What does it take to capture the perfect shot of one of Earth’s most powerful explosions? And what happens when you try to film inside an active...

How to paint autumn trees with watercolors

Rion NakayaNovember 14, 2024

Watercolors can transform simple tree sketch into vibrant color studies, especially when you practice layering and color mixing. In the video above, YouTuber Sagak Sagak demonstrates how...

Build a kaleidoscope with colorful hexagonal patterns

Rion NakayaNovember 14, 2024November 14, 2024

A traditional kaleidoscope has mirrors arranged in a tube at 60° angles. One end is for viewing, while the opposite end might reflect the outside environment or...

Octavia Butler: How a B-movie and a typewriter inspired an Afrofuturist sci-fi pioneer

Rion NakayaNovember 13, 2024November 13, 2024

What happens when a 9-year-old watches a disappointing sci-fi movie and thinks “I can write better than that”? For young Octavia Butler, this Authors That Changed America...

From salt desert to sky mirror: Bolivia’s 4,000-square-mile wonder

Rion NakayaNovember 13, 2024November 13, 2024

Stretching 4,000 square miles across southern Bolivia, the Salar de Uyuni is Earth’s largest salt flat—a vast, bright landscape that astronauts can spot from orbit. This natural...

Why is this stinky, slimy, ocean floor “muck” a treasure trove?

Rion NakayaNovember 12, 2024

Travel with the Chile Margin 2024 science team aboard Research Vessel Falkor (too) as they collect small push cores, longer multi-cores, and a heavy-duty, gravity core from...

Making cheese at Caulkins Creamery

Rion NakayaNovember 12, 2024

Explore cheese-making with Highlights Kids‘ “Ever Wonder?” series as they visit Caulkins Creamery in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Owner and cheesemaker Emily Montgomery and cheese production specialist Maggie Keller...

The science of relaxing with slow-moving snails

Rion NakayaNovember 8, 2024

Take a closer look at snails. Study their eyes, light-detecting organs atop ocular tentacles, each no bigger than a pinhead. Look for their feelers and mouth flaps...

Mapping Millions of Galaxies: Euclid’s 208-gigapixel glimpse into the universe

Rion NakayaNovember 7, 2024November 7, 2024

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope is creating a new kind of cosmic atlas, a remarkable 208-gigapixel mosaic capturing a piece of the Southern Sky in...

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