The Kid Should See This Growing, blooming, rooting. Soil aeration, pollination. Enduring wind, rain, and pollution, dispersing seeds, and growing anew. Directed by Tokyo-based botanical artist Azuma Makoto, Story of Flowers showcases the life cycle of flowers as a wordless […]
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The Kid Should See This First jobs can be tough! Maybe you don’t know what you’re doing or you’re missing a few key details that would make the work go more smoothly. It’s normal to make mistakes. This […]
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The Kid Should See This “My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother,” explained American Olympic champion Wilma Rudolph. She was 20 years old when she broke records at […]
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The Kid Should See This Known as the Great Observatories, NASA’s space telescope ‘super team’ includes the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. This comic book style animation from […]
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The Kid Should See This Thanks to the technologies at play, factory machine commercials can be some of the more fascinating on the internet. Example: This Rayvolution optical sorting machine promo featuring a machine that’s fitted with high-resolution […]
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The Kid Should See This Anyone who is interested in learning how to play chess, who’s just getting started, or who already loves to play: Watch The Magic of Chess. This charming short film by Jenny Schweitzer Bell, […]
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The Kid Should See This If you live in the Northwest, you’ve seen a million Doug firs. For centuries, they’ve been crucial to the Northwest way of life. And if you celebrate Christmas, you might bring one into your home […]
Read more →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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