The Kid Should See This  • April 22, 2025

🦾 WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK:

Mirrors, robots, and a kaleidoscopic one-take music video for LOVE by OK Go ➜

🍩 Way back in 2013, I shared “Why Red Blood Cells Look Like Donuts” and “The Leaf Color Chromatography Experiment,” two science lessons by Alex Dainis that helped us visualize how red blood cells work and what plant pigments are in leaves.

Now that she’s completed her PhD in genetics, Dainis brings her expertise to fun and informative shorts from Boston’s Museum of Science, along with sci-comm pro Maynard Okereke, museum educator Jeannine Madrid, planetarium educator Talia Sepersky, and other fantastic presenters. Follow MoS here, including on Kahoot!

A few links from my week:

👁️ Humans see color never before visible to naked eye with retinal stimulation technique.

⚒️ Komodo dragons have iron-tipped teeth.

🪨 NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Studies Trove of Rocks on Crater Rim.

🌍 ICYMI: Gaylord Nelson and how Earth Day got started.

📚 Worms and Composting, a TKSST book list on Bookshop.org.

☄️ And don't miss the Lyrid meteor shower peak tonight: Here's what to expect.

- Rion

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