The Kid Should See This “Monsieur,votre parapluie !” the waiter calls. “Sir, your umbrella!” Joséphine Gobbi animated this entertaining short as a first-year film exercise at La Poudrière, “France’s boutique animation filmmaking school without professors.” The assignment: Create a one […]
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The Kid Should See This “The Da Shuhua was fireworks for poor people,” explains Wang De in this 1,600° Celsius (2,912° Fahrenheit) Great Big Story video. For the past 30 years, Wang De has been practicing the ancient […]
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The Kid Should See This These rotating spheres are called volvox, the genus of around 20 species of green algae that can be found in nutrient-rich freshwater environments. They were first recorded by Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek […]
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The Kid Should See This As the Roman Empire flourished, Scandinavians had small settlements and no central government. Yet by the 11th century, they had spread far from Scandinavia, gaining control of trade routes throughout Europe, conquering kingdoms as far […]
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The Kid Should See This Two populations of resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) live in the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest where they primarily eat salmon and stick relatively close to shore on the Salish Sea and off the […]
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Cool Mom Picks Winter in Boston with the family may sound…well, cold. It ‘s true that the sun sets earlier, and you have to bundle up when you go out, because, New England! Even so, Boston an excellent city for […]
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The Kid Should See This The first 1.5 minutes of this performance of La máquina de escribir (The Typewriter) in 2011 is all a humorously-pantomimed set up. And when the music starts, percussionist Alfredo Anaya brings even more […]
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Cool Mom Picks Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Memorial Day. It’s particularly poignant this year, with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp. The sad truth is, the older we all get, the more […]
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Cool Mom Picks Happy year of the Rat everyone! With the Lunar New Year upon us, I’m so happy to find this adorable new Etsy shop, which celebrates all things dumplings. Only, not the edible kind, so if you’re low-carbing […]
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The Kid Should See This With a small crop of cotton plants, Li Ziqi demonstrates The Life of Cotton and creates a new padded mattress for her grandmother. In the video above, she plants the seeds in a small patch […]
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