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A Child’s Introduction to Jazz by Cannonball Adderley

Count on Me (by Gentleman Scholar)

How to Start a Fire without Matches

thekidshouldseethis:

It’s another super detailed Moon tour!!! The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter team and the folks at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center bring us more fascinating information about the rich and violent 4.5 billion year history of the moon, all in celebration of the LRO’s 1000th day in orbit.

via @spacefuture.

Sesame Street: OK Go - Three Primary Colors (by SesameStreet)

thekidshouldseethis:

Two weeks ago, Canadian teens Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad launched a helium balloon and a lego minifig into the upper atmosphere — approximately 80,000 feet up — equipped with four cameras to witness the experiment and a GPS for recovery. 

We love experiments like this! For more about the project, there’s a tv news report about Mathew and Asad from CBC’s The National.

thekidshouldseethis:

Bees and the waggle dance: a figure eight series of movements that a scouting honey bee will make on its return to the hive. 

By performing this dance, successful foragers can share with their hive mates information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new housing locations…

Waggle dancing bees that have been in the hive for an extended time adjust the angles of their dances to accommodate the changing direction of the sun. Therefore, bees that follow the waggle run of the dance are still correctly led to the food source even though its angle relative to the sun has changed.

How amazing is that?! 

Thanks, Pete.