Picture words as building blocks. A prefix is an extra block you attach at the beginning of a word to change its meaning or give it more detail, like adding a new bit of information. For instanc...
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Glass windows. Drinking glasses. Reading glasses. Glass screens on our televisions, computers, and smartphones, and so much more. Glass is such a key material in our built world, allowing us to ...
With a mix of focus and a casual style, Yohei Kisanuki, also known as LimbaTrip, draws frame after frame of a phénakistiscope—a zoetrope-like spinning paper disc. Using small magnets to secur...
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Mollies (Poeciliidae) are common tropical fish found from the southern United States down to South America, and in fish store aquariums. In the wild, mollies are often silvery and plain, but sel...
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Why are black holes like vacuum cleaners? How do scientists detect black holes? Can we know what’s inside one? What if we fall in? And what’s an event horizon? Travel to the edge of a black ...
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Stinging nettle has a long history of human use, dating back thousands of years. It has been valued for its medicinal properties, as well as for its utility as fiber and food. Its young, tender ...
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“Have you ever sat down to take a test and completely forgotten what you had studied, or opened your fridge and not remembered what you came to get? “Quite often, we only remember these thin...
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Families often struggle to balance work commitments with spending quality time together. This award-winning 2D and stop-motion animated short, created with detailed physical sets, focuses on tha...
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As its name suggests, the crested honey buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus) is a large raptor with a preference for a small but specific prey: bee and wasp larvae, along with bits of comb and honey t...
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Deep inside Sicily’s Mount Etna, gas bubbles at the magma’s surface burst, propelling them up at high speed through the stratovolcano‘s cylindrical vent. This shapes the water vapor, inter...
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How many different ways can you design a door? How many different doors can you think of? A barn door, a Dutch door, saloon doors, a garage door, a revolving door… What if they were made with ...
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At this candle factory in South Korea, paraffin wax is melted into a liquid, mixed with powders for color and hardness, and pumped into molds with wicks. After hardening, any holes in the yellow...
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“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9… and 0. With just these ten symbols, we can write any rational number imaginable,” begins this TED-Ed lesson by Alessandra King, directed by Michael Kalopaidis. ...
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Boston Dynamics robots were first developed at Carnegie Mellon (1980-1986) and MIT (1987-1995), where founder Marc Raibert was a professor. These “Leg Laboratory” inventions were one-legged,...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/boston-dynamics-40-years-of-development-1983-2023
The Grand Prismatic Spring, a marvel of Yellowstone National Park, is not only the largest hot spring in the United States but also the third-largest in the world. Nestled in the Midway Geyser B...
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