The kiddo loves something about this video, whether it be the music or the marching, he has watched it many, many times in the last few weeks. And it’s a win-win: I love that he now knows a bit about...

From the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Measuring the Universe! So how exactly do we measure things that are incredibly far away? Positioning over time, light, and math, math, math!

Google’s  The Story of Send  visualizes how an email journeys  through their data centers to reach its final destination, all while promoting the energy efficiency of their custom-built servers and t...

From TEDEd , there is a five finger trick for understanding and remembering the five processes — small population, non-random mating, mutations, gene flow, adaptation — that impact evolution (ie. the...

NYC film makers Robert Kolodny and Bennett Elliott (of Land of Nod) made this ode to Paris during a week-long visit with friends. via Vimeo.

An 86-year-old Yorkshire man, Brendon Grimshaw may have lived alone for many years on the tiny island paradise of  Moyenne  in the Seychelles in the middle of the Indian Ocean since he bought it in 1...

We love when kids take science and the art of making into their own hands. This kid made his own balloon-powered boat! Related: Inexpens... balloon-powered boat kits  found online and  DIY  Ideas on ...

Geysers are a rare phenomenon that exist in only a few places on earth.

Watching this  Planetary Resources video about their mission to near-Earth asteroids  makes me feel like I’m watching a made-up video from a movie set in the future.

Penguin babies  (specifically E mperor Penguin babies in Antarctica)  taking their first steps! From The March of the Penguins , narrated by Morgan Freeman.

“Rooftops in the summer are hot. Cooling down buildings wastes energy.

Don’t adjust your sound as this video has none, but wow, does it have a picture! This is a deepstaria enigmatica , a deep-sea jellyfish that was caught by a  remotely operated underwater camera about...

ZeroN , a project by Jinha Lee, Rehmi Post, and Hiroshi Ishii at  MIT’s Media Lab:  What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air?

From Science Friday , behold A Spacesuit Ballet:  Of the suit he wore on the moon, Neil Armstrong wrote, “it was tough, reliable, and almost cuddly.” But that cuddly suit, made by the company Playtex...

In April 2012  Copenhagen Phil (Sjællands Symfoniorkester) surprised the passengers in the Copenhagen Metro by playing Griegs Peer Gynt. The flash mob was created in collaboration with Radio Klassisk...

Penguins can’t fly, but they can jump!  Seriously. They can jump over 9 feet (or up to 3 meters), depending on their species. How? They  wrap their bodies in a cloak of air bubbles  that come from th...

Fascinating! See what your  vocal cords  (or larynx) look like when you’re speaking or making sounds. Your larynx is where pitch (musical tones) and volume are controlled. You can also make it louder...

This short video called “ Her Shoes ” is by  Katina Hubbard and  Daniel Mercadante , founder of  Everynone  (work previously featured , via Radiolab). The music is by Lullatone , who we love and have...

Here’s Tito Puente rocking the Bronx with A Maria Cervantes on the  vibraphone in 1945. And here he is again with the same song at the Montreal Jazz Festival almost 40 years later in 1983.