Coin Box Christmas Houses

To Spring (1936) - Harman and Ising

To Spring, a Harman and Ising cartoon made in 1936 for Metro Goldwyn Mayer. The colors. The rhymes and music. The saga of a new season. The imagination…

What Counts as a Mountain? - Tom Scott

Mountains: super tall, rocky landforms that rise high above the surrounding environment, much higher than hills. We might draw one as a single peak like Mount Fuji, or as a zig zag line of peaks representing a mountain range. Mount Everest (also known as Sagarmāthā and Chomolungma) is Earth’s highest peak above sea level, but it’s also surrounded by tall mountains in the Mahālangūr range. Do those count as some of the tallest on Earth, too?

Tom Scott asks “what counts as a mountain” on the 4,350 meter (14,271 foot) peak of Mount Evans in Colorado, North America’s 41st highest. Then he explains the answer… mostly.

Read more about topographical prominence and edge cases.

Call to Arms Painting (The Turkey's Nightmare)

Elemental Burning - Beauty of Science

Envisioning Chemistry: Elemental Burning from Beauty of Science on Vimeo.

WARNING: A bit loud, so headphone users be warned.

What happens to carbon when it combusts? What does sodium look like while it burns? In Elemental Burning, creator Yan Liang’s team films the combustion of five elements: carbon, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium, and sulfur… and then see what compounds they change into afterward.

The video is another in the Beauty of Science video series, chemistry content created for K-12 STEM education.