Ruby, the Orphaned Flying Fox
ZooBorns, one of our favorite websites of all time, has a great video up today featuring Ruby, a three week old orphaned Red Flying Fox bat. We have to admit we never thought of bats as particularly...
View ArticleSay What You Will by Cammie McGovern
Cammie McGovern‘s young adult novel Say What You Will is finding itself on many summer reading lists. The synopsis: John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell’sEleanor & Park in this...
View ArticleGiant Bubbles Popping in Slow Motion via The Slow Mo Guys
We’re pretty fond of those nutty Slow Mo Guys (except when they did that dumb mouse trap thing) and are thrilled to share their latest vid with you. In this video Gav and Dan introduce you to the...
View ArticleA Little About — Giant Sloths
UO Natural & Cultural History Museum, Eugene, Oregon. Photo by Bubblegum Post. While your every day garden variety sloth is quite in vogue right now, we’re going back 10,000 years to talk about the...
View ArticleDo We Really Need the Moon?
The daily rhythms of our planet, including the length of our day and our seasons, have been set by the ball of rock we call the Moon. This fascinating video will give us astronomy geeks a wider...
View ArticleLEGO’s All Female Research Institute Minifigs
LEGO promotes diversity in science with this brand new, fan-designed, all female “Research Institute” minifigure set. Back in early 2012, LEGO revealed a lineup of toys called “LEGO Friends”. This was...
View ArticleSound Waves and Rainbow Sand
Sound is the propagation of waves through a particular medium. In this video the mallet drawn across the metal plate causes sound vibrations, which move the sand across the table. Visit Science Alert...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About Planet Earth
The Kurzesagt YouTube channel makes one animated video a month explaining things like “evolution, time, space, global energy or our existence in this strange universe.” They describe themselves as a...
View ArticleHappy 100th Anniversary, Panama Canal
BBC News shared a video today in honor of the one hundred year anniversary of the first ship that traversed the Panama Canal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de...
View ArticleHow to View the Perseid Meteor Shower Tonight
The spectacular Perseid meteor shower should reach its peak tonight with as many as 100 shooting stars streaking across the sky every hour. But the annual display, caused by the Earth passing through...
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