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🌟🖌️ Join Violet in this exciting episode as she helps her friends—a leopard, a rabbit, and a big fuzzy monster—solve problems with creativity, kindness, and a little art magic! 🎨 Watch as Violet uses her artistic skills to draw spots, tails, and even wings for her friends, teaching kids about empathy, imagination, and problem-solving along the way. Plus, kids can follow along step-by-step to draw their own friendly monster while practicing colors, counting, and body parts! 🎶

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Embark on a prehistoric adventure with ABCmouse in "Search & Explore the La Brea Tar Pits - Discover Prehistoric Los Angeles." In this full episode, we dive into the fascinating world of the famous La Brea Tar Pits, a window into ancient ecosystems and extinct creatures. Children will be thrilled to learn about the Ice Age mammals and the incredible fossils discovered in this unique urban paleontological site in the heart of Los Angeles.

Join us as we uncover the mysteries hidden beneath the city, from saber-toothed cats to massive mammoths, and explore how these discoveries help scientists understand the past. This educational journey is perfect for young explorers eager to learn about paleontology, natural history, and the wonders of the natural world.

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🌟🌉 Join us on a musical adventure as we explore the iconic Golden Gate Bridge! Learn fun facts and take an exciting journey across this famous landmark in our special ABCmouse song, perfect for little explorers eager to discover the world! 🎶🧭

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Ham with Jam? - ABCmouse.com Beginning Reader Series

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Pam likes jam and dislikes ham, while Sam likes ham and dislikes jam. This quirky story about a sister and brother who find an unlikely compromise is based on the book, 'Ham with Jam?' which is part of ABCmouse.com's Beginning Reader Series. This animated video introduces young learners to words in the --am word family (a word family is a group of words with the same ending sound and letters, such as Pam, Sam, and jam).

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Step into a world of musical wonder with ABCmouse's Alphabet Magic! 🌟 In our special 25-minute feature, join ABC and watch as the spinning wheel picks alphabet songs in a delightful mixed-up order.

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This week we explore some of the most powerful artworks ever made, making the case for political art one work at a time. Pablo Picasso's Guernica, Kathe Kollwitz's prints, Kazimir Malevich's Black Square, Iri and Toshi Maruki's Hiroshima Panels, and Martha Rosler's House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home photomontages. What do you think of as political art?


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Ai Weiwei has been called an iconoclast, a radical, a voice for the voiceless, and was once named the most powerful artist in the world. Who is Ai Weiwei? And why is he considered one of the most renowned artists of our time?


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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h At VidCon 2014, we hit up some of our favorite vloggers and hosts and asked them to do an Art Assignment. Any one of their choosing! Watch what kind of art skills Craig Benzine, Joe Hanson, Emily Graslie, Mike Rugnetta, and Steve Goldbloom have to offer.

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Emily Graslie / The Brain Scoop: http://www.youtube.com/thebrainscoop
Joe Hanson / It's Okay to be Smart: http://www.youtube.com/itsokaytobesmart
Craig Benzine / Wheezy Waiter: http://www.youtube.com/wheezywaiter

Sampling, appropriating, borrowing, stealing. Whatever you want to call it, artists have been copying since time immemorial. We look into the history of the practice, and share our theories of why it is done, and what it can offer us. To support our channel, or at least consider it: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment.

Written by Joanna Fiduccia

Thanks to our Grandmaster of the Arts Indianapolis Homes Realty, and all of our patrons, especially Patrick Hanna and Constance Urist.

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Video Games are fun, but are they art? Heck yes. We explore the history and present of video games and what sets them apart as a means of artistic expression. To learn about many other alternative means of expression, preorder a copy of You Are An Artist: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h
#videogames #gaming #videoart

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We meet up with photographer Tanja Hollander in North Adams, MA, on her epic journey around the world to visit and take formal portraits of ALL of her 626 facebook friends. She challenges you to take a formal photographic portrait of a friend, and to tell us what a real friend is.

INSTRUCTIONS - Photo a Friend
1. Find a friend (define friend however you want)
2. Take a formal photographic portrait of them
3. Upload to your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
4. Fame & glory (your work might be featured in a future episode)
5. Extra credit: Also upload a pic of a post-it saying what a real friend is and then send it to Tanja: PO Box 805, Lewiston, ME 04243-805

Find out more about The Art Assignment and how to submit your response: http://theartassignment.com/

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Whales are INCREDIBLE! Check out #BigBlueLive: http://pbs.org/bigbluelive
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PBS and BBC are teaming up to bring you an incredible LIVE nature broadcast direct from Monterey Bay, California called BIG BLUE LIVE. In late summer, thousands and thousands of ocean animals come together here, in one of the richest ecosystems on Earth. We'll be bringing you a week of videos direct from Monterey Bay all about this incredible place and the biology it holds
Big Blue Live airs nightly on PBS 8/31-9/2 at 8 PM ET
Big Blue Live airs on BBC One 8/23 (7PM), 8/27 (8 PM), 8/30 (7 PM)

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Are you more of a cat person?
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Of all the species that humans have domesticated, dogs are our oldest animal friends. But how did a group of wolves become the furry pup at the end of the bed? New research is finally unlocking the paw-in-hand evolution of dogs and humans. In this episode we’re answering one big question: Did we domesticate dogs, or did dogs domesticate us?

Special thanks to our friends from MinuteEarth!

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REFERENCES:

Frantz, Laurent AF, et al. "Genomic and archaeological evidence suggest a dual origin of domestic dogs." Science 352.6290 (2016): 1228-1231.

Freedman, Adam H., and Robert K. Wayne. "Deciphering the Origin of Dogs: From Fossils to Genomes." Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 0 (2016).

Freedman, Adam H., et al. "Genome sequencing highlights the dynamic early history of dogs." PLoS Genet 10.1 (2014): e1004016.

Thalmann, Olaf, et al. "Complete mitochondrial genomes of ancient canids suggest a European origin of domestic dogs." Science 342.6160 (2013): 871-874.

Wang, Guo-Dong, et al. "Out of southern East Asia: the natural history of domestic dogs across the world." Cell research 26.1 (2016): 21-33.

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Earth has seasons, but what about the rest of the planets in the solar system? Let’s take a tour from Mercury to Pluto and see what seasons would be like on all our planetary neighbors. Bring a sweater!

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NASA Planet Fact Sheet:
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Winds of Mars:
http://bit.ly/2wvlH3p

Lakes of Titan:
https://sites.google.com/site/....alexanderghayes/Rese
http://www.nature.com/nature/j....ournal/v481/n7379/fu

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You asked for it, so here’s the follow-up!
Just because something is difficult doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Over the past centuries, archaeologists, historians, and engineers have reconstructed a great deal of the technology and science used to build the Egyptian pyramids. This week we look at ancient Egyptian mathematics, building techniques, tools, and culture to reconstruct the Great Pyramid’s construction.

REFERENCES:

Fall, Abdoulaye, et al. "Sliding friction on wet and dry sand." Physical review letters 112.17 (2014): 175502.

Lehner, M. (1997). The complete pyramids. Thames and Hudson.

Parry, D. (2005). Engineering the pyramids. The History Press.

Smith, Craig B., Zahi Hawass, and Mark Lehner. How the great pyramid was built. Harper Collins, 2006.

Verner, M. (2003). The pyramids: their archaeology and history. Atlantic.

Verner, M. (2007). The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments. Grove/Atlantic, Inc..


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Vintage arcade footage courtesy of: http://patrickscottpatterson.com/

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References:
Thompson, Joseph J., Mark R. Blair, and Andrew J. Henrey. "Over the hill at 24: persistent age-related cognitive-motor decline in reaction times in an ecologically valid video game task begins in early adulthood." PloS one 9.4 (2014): e94215.

Thompson, Joseph J., et al. "Video game telemetry as a critical tool in the study of complex skill learning." PloS one 8.9 (2013): e75129.

Lewis, Joshua M., Patrick Trinh, and David Kirsh. "A corpus analysis of strategy video game play in starcraft: Brood war." Proceedings of the 33rd annual conference of the cognitive science society. 2011.

ESA Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry 2016 http://essentialfacts.theesa.com/

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E pluribus moose-um
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America's first great science battle wasn't the space race or the atom bomb, it was fought between Thomas Jefferson, a French nobleman, and in the middle… a giant moose. Some people call Jefferson our only scientist-President, and T.J. himself said that "Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight."

Here's the story of how Jefferson used science to help a young nation make its mark
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Greetings, fellow Homo sapiens. Our species is the only remaining member of the genus of upright, walking apes known as Homo. Where did we come from? Our history just got a whole lot more complicated (in a good way) thanks to some incredible new fossils unearthed in South Africa over the past few years. I got to visit them, and the scientists who discovered them, to learn their story and ours. Meet your cousin: Homo naledi #homonaledi #humanorigins #evolution

References: https://sites.google.com/view/....homo-naledi-referenc
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-Lee Berger, Marina Elliott, and Becca Peixotto for letting me meet Neo and for explaining their science!
-The Republic of South Africa for allowing these fossils to be on display in the USA.
-The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas. “Origins: Fossils From the Cradle of Humankind” will be on display through early 2020: https://www.perotmuseum.org/ex....hibits-and-films/tra

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Why do Africa and South America fit together? Anyone who’s ever looked at a map can see that Earth’s continents are kind of like a jigsaw puzzle. The idea that continents are constantly moving and weren’t always in their current spots is a pretty obvious idea, right? You might be surprised to learn that geologists only accepted that idea recently in the past few decades, and it figuring out how plate tectonics and continental drift work required some pretty strange evidence.

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Some background on Alfred Wegener: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/techist.html

Lystrosaurus (ancient mammal relative): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lystrosaurus

Glossopteris (ancient fern): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossopteris

The splitting of Africa: http://theconversation.com/spl....itting-africa-what-h

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