My Mom is an Airplane - Yulya Aronova

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Why Do Clouds Stay Up?

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Quilting in Space - Karen Nyberg

NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg, a lifelong lover of sewing, is inviting fellow crafters to join her in stitching together a global community space quilt. Nyberg, in the final weeks of her mission, recently shared a star-themed quilt square she was able to complete inside the International Space Station. Now, she's inviting quilters from the public to create their own star-themed quilt squares to...

Alfred Russel Wallace's Personal Cabinet - NSF

To know where modern biological science began, take a look at the incredible and extremely well-preserved collection within Alfred Russel Wallace’s personal cabinet, as showcased in this video by the National Science Foundation: Discovered by a Washington, D.C., lawyer in search of antique furniture, this...

Making a Box from a Greeting Card

My fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Lee, first taught me to make these.  I remember going to my grandmother's house and proceeding to make a bunch of them for her....

Story of One Crime - Fyodor Khitruk (1962)

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Gumbasia - Art Clokey (1955)

Gumbasia was Art Clokey’s first film, made in 1955 at the University of Southern California. It was a parody of Disney’s Fantasia, using stop-motion clay figures. This short film led to funding for his first Gumby fi...

Let's Make some Great Fingerprint Art - Marion Deuchars

Let's Make some Great Fingerprint Art from Marion Deuchars on Vim...

The Postal System from A to B - Ruben van der Vleuten

This hidden camera adventure through the postal system, From A to B, began when Ruben van der Vleuten wanted to know, ”What happens when you send something by mail?” So instead of sitting back I started a simple project to actually see it myself. I put a small camera in a box, build a timer circuit...

My Financial Career - Gerald Potterton (1962)

An animated film based on Stephen Leacock's witty account of a young man's first brush with banking. When he tries to make his deposit, he is so intimidated by the institution that nothing he says comes out right. Directed by Gerald Potterton - 1...

Kew Gardens / LonelyLeap Collaboration Botany Videos

KEW GARDENS - Beyond the Gardens: The Fungarium from LONELYLEAP on Vimeo.\ KEW GARDENS - Beyond the Gardens: The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership from LONELYLEAP on Vimeo. Most people know Kew Gardens as home of the world’s largest living plant collection but are not aware that it is also the location of an internationally important botanical research and educational institution. Going beyond...

The Dragon Hedge

Retired fan maker John Brooker was bored with his plain hedge in East Rudham, Norfolk, and so he decided to shape it into something more interesting. Note to self: it takes around 10 years to sculpt a hedge into a 100 foot long dragon-shaped topiary. With extreme dedication and precision, Brooker used...

"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" (1941) - The Andrews Sisters

Nothing gets you moving quite like boogie woogie and The Andrews Sisters-Patricia Marie, Maxine Angelyn and Laverne Sophie-were brilliant at it. Here they are in a 1941 clip from Abbott and Costello’s Buck Privat...

No Noodles Stop Motion Animation Video - Tyler Nicolson

No Noodles! Small creatures explore and inhabit an even smaller world. A short stop motion film by Tyler Nicolson, music by Chris Adriaan...

Doctor Who Shoes and an Essay about River Song

Hello!  These are my Doctor Who shoes, themed with the Eleventh Doctor and River Song. ...

Double Knit OSU Beaver Scarf

Hello!  I'm going to start by posting a run-through of a scarf I made this summer, my monster OSU Beaver Scarf.  The scarf is double knit, and therefore double-sided, and ended up approximately eight feet long! The scarf draped over a chai...

Foxes Use Earth's Magnetic Field to Hunt Mice - Jaroslav Cerveny

With its exceptional hearing, the red fox can detect when a small animal is scurrying around up to 3 feet under the snow, and their high jump to surprise and catch that animal — called “mousing” — is pretty spectacular. But even more spectacular is what we can’t see: the possible influence of magnetic...

Wild Life (Short) - National Film Board of Canada

Nominated for an Oscar® for Best Animated Short at the 2012 Academy Awards This animated short tells the story of a dapper young remittance man, sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching in 1909. However, his affection for badminton, bird watching and liquor leaves him little time for wrangling cattle. It soon becomes clear that nothing in his refined upbringing has prepared him for the...

When I Grow Up - Jasmin Lai

A smart young girl starts thinking about what she wants to be when she grows up. How will she decide? When I grow up by Jasmin Lai. ...

Dolphins Communicated with Ecolocation

At the Kolmården Wild Animal Park, dolphins like young Luna can now aim their echolocation beam at shapes on an underwater screen to indicate their choices and answer questions. The project is called ELVIS (The Echo Location Visualization and Interface System) and it’s currently being used to...

Celebrating Crystallography - The Royal Institution

One of the great innovations of the twentieth century is likely not well-known, but this video from the Ri Channel is looking to change that: This is X-ray crystallography.  Discovered in 1913 by William and Lawrence Bragg, x-ray crystallography is a technique that reveals the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal. When a narrow beam of x-rays is shown...