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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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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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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The Kid Should See This For three centuries, farmers living in the remote mountains of northern Turkey have communicated great distances by whistling. It’s a language called kuş dili that is still used to this day, though fewer people are […]
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The Kid Should See This Artist and photographer Christian Spencer was standing on his verandah in Rio de Janeiro when he made an amazing discovery. When the black Jacobin hummingbird flew with the sun striking its open wings, […]
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The Kid Should See This After a month of bad eating, our Universitat de Barcelona Animated Science hero finds that he’s feeling quite ill. A visit to the doctor reveals that he has to maintain a more balanced […]
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The Kid Should See This In 2007, industrial designer Diego Cárdenas wanted a bicycle to ride around the city, but instead of buying one, he decided to make one out of bamboo. This Popular Mechanics Made Here video in Spanish […]
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The Kid Should See This Individual red sable hairs are gathered, arranged, and shaped with a starch and water solution. The bundle is wrapped in metal and attached to a paint-dipped wooden handle before it’s crimped into place. This is […]
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The Kid Should See This Every year around “February 16th to 23rd, or maybe a little beyond that,” if the conditions all align, Yosemite National Park‘s majestic Horsetail Fall transforms into Firefall, “one of the most wondrous and beautiful sights […]
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