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How do you rescue good ideas from the Valley of Death?
All new products must pass through the “valley of death” before they reach the market. Many never make it out, and sometimes that’s ok— if they don’t work, don’t fill a need, or for any number of...
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A Carnyx and a Cornu de Pompeii: Ancient horns played by Abraham Cupeiro
A multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder, musician Abraham Cupeiro is “mostly known for bringing back instruments lost long ago.” In the video above, he demonstrates a serpent-headed instrument...
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Papyrus makers in Egypt keep their 5,000-year-old craft alive
Egyptians invented papyrus paper at least 5,000 years ago, replacing clay tablets and revolutionizing the written word. They used it for things like marriage contracts and shopping lists. They also...
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Egypt’s Aten, the 3,400-year-old ‘Lost Golden City’ of Luxor
Revealing remains of the ancient pharaonic city Aten have been discovered. This Guardian video shares views of the Egyptian site, dubbed The Lost Golden City of Luxor, as well as some of its incredible...
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LEGO Artist Ekow Nimako’s All Black LEGO Sculptures
Using only black LEGO pieces, Ghanaian-Canadian LEGO artist Ekow Nimako is transforming the building community with his epic LEGO sculptures. Their fantastical themes are inspired by a mix of history...
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The Maya Milpa Cycle, a sustainable forest gardening method
“The Maya and their ancestors developed an incredibly sophisticated, sustainable agricultural system over hundreds of generations of accumulated knowledge. The Milpa Cycle is still being practiced by a...
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The Undying Hydra: A Freshwater Mini-Monster That Defies Aging
The Hydra is a tiny tentacled creature with no eyes or brain. Named after the Lernean Hydra from Greek legends, Hydra vulgaris has a morphallactic regenerative capability-the ability to regenerate...
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Giant prehistoric penguins + how penguins moved from sky to sea
Penguins are amazing creatures that can leap out of the ocean with amazing speed and endure winter cold like no other. We may think of them like small, waddling birds, but these flightless animals used...
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The Hambone, a body percussion technique
This scenic short, filmed at the Hoover Dam in Arizona and Lake Mead in Nevada, is the music video for I’m Doing the Hambone, a song by “Children’s Drumcussionist” Devin Walker from The Uncle Devin...
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A Short History of the Nightingale, animated
The nightingale, “a bird many have heard of, but few have seen.” This informative animation, A Short History of the Nightingale, was created by British animation director Will Rose and narrated by...
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How Did Uluru Form?
Around 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) apart in Australia’s Northern Territory, Uluru and Kata Tjuta stand tall on the flat landscape. What makes Uluru so red? And how did this half a billion-year-old...
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City of Ghosts: How to draw the ghost club
Created by Elizabeth Ito, City of Ghosts is a groundbreaking animated Netflix series about a group of kids who interview local ghosts around Los Angeles. Through these supernatural yet sweet...
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How do wind turbines work?
Every 24 hours, wind generates enough kinetic energy to produce roughly 35 times more electricity than humanity uses each day. And unlike coal or oil, this resource is totally renewed each day. So how...
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Llangollen Canal, a 4.5-minute boat tour of the engineering marvel
Meandering back and forth over the border of Wales and England, the 45-mile-long Llangollen canal is, as YouTube channel Machine Thinking describes, “truly one of the waterway treasures of the UK. Not...
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How does the Covid vaccine work and why is it safe?
Many have heard the story of the first vaccination in 1796, when Dr. Edward Jenner infected “a patient with a mild dose of smallpox in the expectation that it would provide protection from a more...
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A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian priest
Every town or city in ancient Egypt had at least one temple and yet most people never set foot in it. The largest temples dominated the skyline and employed lots of people to look after their farms and...
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Hisako Koyama, the woman who stared at the sun
“During World War II,” Rashmi Shivni writes for PBS NewsHour, “Tokyo often held drills to prepare citizens for airstrikes. But when the sirens blared and blackouts hit the city, a young Hisako Koyama...
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When was the first cell phone call?
In the 1960s and early ’70s, if you wanted to make a phone call, you did so from a device wired to the telephone grid. When AT&T launched their cellular system for car phones, Dr. Martin “Marty”...
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What exactly happened on the day that dinosaurs died?
“66 million years ago, maybe on a Tuesday afternoon, life was the same as it had been the day before or a thousand years before or pretty much a million years before. Things were good for our feathered...
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We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks, a poem told with paper-cut puppetry
“The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel…” This was the scene that inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000) to write her landmark 1959 poem, “We Real Cool“. This...
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