Great Big Story
A Whale of a Task: Sculpting Model Giants by Hand
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- A Whale of a Task: Sculpting Model Giants by Hand
- Runtime
- 3:05
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Stephen Kesler's works are as big as life itself. No, really. The Salt Lake City-based wildlife artist often spends weeks creating realistic, life-size sculptures of whales, giraffes and other large animals. His work adds wonder to museums and aquariums across the city.
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- When an Elephant Lost Her Leg, He invented a Prosthesis for Her
- Runtime
- 2:36
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- When Mosha, an elephant, was two years old, she lost her leg in a landmine injury along the Thai-Burmese border. Luckily, an orthopedic surgeon was able to fit her with the first prosthetic leg ever designed for an elephant. As she’s grown, she’s needed to be fitted for new ones. But she’s never forgotten the doctor who changed her life.
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- Meet Philadelphia’s First Family of Squeezeboxes
- Runtime
- 3:07
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- In the historic district of Philadelphia stands one of the world’s largest accordion stores. This squeezebox epicenter is owned and operated by Michael Bulboff, who spends his days selling and repairing instruments with a crew of young experts who are passionate about sharing this oft-forgotten musical instrument with a new generation. But Bulboff’s most important student is his 3-year-old son. In teaching him the ins and outs of the accordion, Bulboff hopes to instill in him a lifelong passion for music.
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- Pounding Mochi With the Fastest Mochi Maker in Japan
- Runtime
- 2:35
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Mitsuo Nakatani is a mochi master, and to watch him do his work is a genuine thrill. Turning sticky rice into Japan’s traditional soft and chewy treat requires pounding, flipping and smashing the glutinous rice at high speeds in perfect coordination with a team. While visitors come to Nakatani’s mochi shop to taste the best, they stay to watch him make it.
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00:13 Meet the mochi master 💪
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- The Northern Bald Eagle Makes a Mighty Comeback
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- In the 1960s, there were less than 1,000 bald eagles left in the wild. Today, thanks to strict regulations, they are rebounding. That's reason enough to celebrate America’s iconic national bird.
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- Building a Medieval Castle in Modern Times
- Runtime
- 2:06
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- It’s hard to fathom how magnificent castles were built centuries ago. One group set out to understand just that by building their own masterpiece two hours outside of Paris. Tucked away in a forest, a team of master builders and archeologists are attempting to construct Guédelon, a castle from the 13th century, using only medieval techniques.
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- In the Ring with a Muslim Muay Thai Champion
- Runtime
- 5:29
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Not only is Ruqsana Begum one of the best Muay Thai fighters in the world—she’s the only Muslim woman to hold a national kickboxing championship title. She started boxing at the age of 18 and trained in secret for years, fearing that her family wouldn’t approve of her participation in a male-dominated sport. Now, there’s nothing holding her back.
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- Robert Smalls: How a Slave Became an American Hero
- Runtime
- 2:07
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The story of Robert Smalls’ escape from slavery and journey to American hero sounds so daring, you might think it a myth. Not only did he successfully steal a ship and sail to freedom, he freed his family, became a Civil War hero and served as a U.S. congressman.
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- Fighting Food Waste on the Border
- Runtime
- 2:55
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- More than one thousand commercial trucks cross the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz. every day, many of them filled with produce. Much of that food would go to waste if not for the efforts of one nonprofit. Borderlands Food Bank saves between 30 and 40 million pounds of produce annually and redistributes it to families in 20 U.S. states. That’s doing the good work, one tomato at a time.
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- A Sanctuary for Lions, Tigers and Bears (Oh, My!)
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- For the past 36 years, Pat Craig has worked tirelessly to rescue large carnivores and rehabilitate them at the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado. Most of the animals there were taken in from zoos, circuses or saved from abusive owners. Now, they've got a permanent home where they can live in peace.
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- Reviving a Lost Community, One Loaf at a Time
- Runtime
- 2:18
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The rich Jewish culture of a Ukrainian town was all but wiped out by the Nazis and the ensuing Soviet era. But one New York Jew is trying to bring it back, one loaf of challah at a time.
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- How the Circus Saved My Life
- Runtime
- 3:03
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Every day, Kayla Dyches floats above ground on aerial silks as a circus arts performer. But she almost didn’t make it there. As a gymnast in her late teens and early 20s, she suffered from anorexia. It wasn't until Dyches tried climbing into the air that she realized she had a problem. Now, she's fighting back against the disorder and developing the strength to soar in more ways than one.
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- Sails, Sweat and Sea: Hand-building the World's Biggest Dhow
- Runtime
- 4:06
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Where the desert sands of Dubai meet the ocean, a troop of shipbuilders are taking on the enormous task of building the world's largest handmade ship. A Great Big Story by our friends at Jungles in Paris.
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- Rebuilding Dinosaurs with the 'Skeleton Crew'
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Some of the most impressive dinosaur skeletons in the world are housed in a nondescript warehouse in Ontario, Canada. There, a team of experts carefully unpacks, preserves, and mounts dinosaur fossils into displays for the Smithsonian and American Museum of Natural History, to name a few. They call themselves, the "skeleton crew.”
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- In Jerusalem, a Chorus for Peace
- Runtime
- 3:05
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- In their daily lives, Sasha Fix and Yehia Abu Nijmeh would probably never cross paths, let alone share a friendship. But the pair is bound by music. Fix, an Israeli, and Nijmeh, a Palestinian, are both members of the YMCA Jerusalem Youth Chorus, a choral program for high school students in Jerusalem. The group brings together Israeli and Palestinian teens with the goal of creating music and promoting dialogue.
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- Meet the Man Who Escaped the Soviet Bloc in a Homemade Plane
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- 5:24
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The dusty desert of Lucin, Utah, isn't for everyone. It's lonely, windy and hot. But for Ivo Zdarsky, it's home. The inventor, who in 1984 escaped Czechoslovakia in a homemade aircraft, lives in an airplane hangar about 25 miles from his nearest neighbor. Like we said, Lucin isn't for everyone.
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- The Massasauga Rattlesnake: A Victim of Fear
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Like most snakes, the massasauga rattlesnake fears humans more than humans should fear it. Ontario's only venomous snake, the massasauga prefers to flee rather than bite its enemies. Unfortunately, the snake can't hide from increasing human development and intentional killings, which have greatly reduced its Canadian population.
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- The Blind Astronomer of Nova Scotia
- Runtime
- 4:25
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Tim Doucette is legally blind, yet he sees the stars better than most people. A childhood diagnosis of congenital cataracts forced doctors to remove Doucette's lenses and widen his pupils. That left the amateur astronomer with only about 10 percent of his eyesight, but it also allows his pupils to pick up more light at night. You've never seen the night sky quite like Doucette.
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- Deep Underground, the Coolest Club in Lebanon
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Jeita Grotto is the largest cave in Lebanon and the main water source for Beirut. While only a small portion of it is open to the public, a select group gets to explore its mysterious depths. Founded in 1951, the Spéléo Club du Liban is the oldest caving club in the Middle East. Every week, the club gets together to seek out and map new areas. This might just be the coolest club in the country.
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- Throwback on a Comeback: The Last Cassette Tape Factory
- Runtime
- 3:14
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Bust out your mix tapes and dust off those Walkmans: Cassette tapes are having a comeback. National Audio Company—the last cassette factory in the U.S.—is ready for the renewed demand. Cranking out analog audio tapes since 1969, the company boasted its best year ever in 2015, and sales are only climbing.
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- Belgian Feather Bowling in the Motor City
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- 2:22
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Feather bowling, an obscure Belgian sport similar to bocce ball, is thriving at Detroit's Cadieux Cafe. The object of the game is to bowl a wooden disk down a concave lane and land it as close as possible to a single feather. Beyond the love of the game, it's the spirit of friendly competition that keeps this league together.
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- The Sandwich That Snuck into Space
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- 1:52
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- NASA astronauts deal with many dangers in space: deadly debris, harmful cosmic rays and corned beef sandwiches. Wait, what was that last one? Oh yeah, here’s how a lunch meat sandwich almost destroyed a space capsule that one time.
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- The Ocularist: Restoring Windows to the Soul
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- David Gougelmann creates prosthetic eyes for a living. As this ocularist knows all too well, no two eyes are identical, and to reproduce them requires hours of careful painting, scratching and polishing. For Gougelmann, making beautiful eyes is more art than science.
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- Welcome to the Magic Capital of the World
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Do you believe in magic? In Colon, Mich., they do. A town of just 1,200 people, Colon has one pharmacy, one pizza parlor and three magic shops. Meet the three men who make the magic happen.
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- This Little Salamander Is Losing Its Home
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- This little guy is a southern Appalachian salamander. Around seven inches long, these amphibians breathe entirely through their skin, which makes them sensitive to temperature and water quality. With average temperatures increasing yearly, their future has become murky.
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- Patrolling the Most Dangerous Beach in the World
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- 2:19
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The "Seven Mile Miracle," a stretch of coastline on Oahu's North Shore, is the holy grail of big wave surf spots. It is also one of the most dangerous surf breaks on Earth. The lifeguards who patrol the beaches make upward of 1,000 saves per year, sometimes as many as 30 in one day. Tau Hannemann, a 15-year lifeguard veteran, is known as one of the best on Oahu. For Hannemann, lifeguarding is more than a job, it's a calling.
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- A Modern Day Warrior: Mastering Mounted Archery
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- 2:39
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- To call Lukas Novotny an expert horseback rider paints an incomplete picture. Novotny is one of the world's leading horseback archers. Yeah, you read that right: he shoots arrows on horseback. Now, Novotny is almost single-handedly keeping the tradition alive.
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- Lush Greenery is Reclaiming this Abandoned Chinese Oasis
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- 1:15
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- 10 years ago
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- In an archipelago just off the east coast of China, sits an abandoned fishing village. All but a few residents abandoned Shengshan Island in the mid-1990s for modern cities and towns on the mainland. Today, the old homes are crumbling and lush greenery is replacing what once was a thriving community.
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- Title
- The Fishy Origins of Ketchup
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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Ketchup: it's as American as baseball, July 4th and blues music. But have you ever wondered where it came from? As it turns out, ketchup wasn’t invented in America, nor was it made from tomatoes. So what went into the original formula? Let's just say it wasn’t very appetizing.
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- The Ancient Art of Keeping Birds at Bay
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Falconry is one of the world's oldest sports. It also happens to be the most effective way of protecting airplanes from stray birds. Falcons, the "great white sharks of the sky," terrify smaller birds. Mark Adam, president of Falcon Environmental Services, trains them to scare away birds that might otherwise impact planes.
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- Protecting Africa’s Last Rhinos from Poaching
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- 5:01
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- How do you protect an animal that's worth more than gold on the black market? In 2014, poachers killed over 1,200 rhinos in South Africa. That number dropped the following year thanks to the efforts of Unite Against Poaching. But the war on poaching continues. Join filmmaker and Great Big Storyteller Ben Brown as he teams up with volunteer rangers who are trying to save these magnificent creatures.
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- The Man Who Created Settlers of Catan
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- 3:55
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Move over Monopoly, there's a newer board game in town. "Settlers of Catan," a game night classic modeled after the Vikings' journey to Iceland, has sold over 24 million copies since its release in 1994. Creator Klaus Teuber lives in Germany, where running the Catan empire has become a family affair and a global operation.
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- This Slender Crane Was Rescued from a Parking Lot
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Meet Garrett, a sandhill crane with a unique story. He was found wondering around a Home Depot parking lot before he was rescued by the Maryland Zoo. Though the population of sandhill cranes in North America has rebounded in recent decades, loss of habitat and climate change are still looming threats to some subspecies.
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- Title
- Turning Houses into Homes for the Formerly Homeless
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- 3:39
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- In Detroit, most people who transition into a permanent home after living on the streets have a 46 percent chance of returning to a shelter because they simply cannot afford furniture. That's where Humble Design comes in. The nonprofit has helped furnish homes for nearly 700 families and counting with donated furniture, an army of volunteers and an inviting sense of interior design.
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- Title
- Capturing Space Rocks in Antarctica
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- 2:11
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Planetary scientist Constantine Tsang is trying to answer the great mystery of the universe: where did we come from? To do so, Tsang and his NASA-funded team spent two months searching for meteorites on the ice shelves of Antarctica. Daunting as it sounds, finding frozen meteorites is simple in comparison to battling Antarctica’s elements.
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- Title
- When Gourmet Gives Back: Creating A Food Scene In Bolivia
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- At 12,000 feet above sea level, in the Bolivian capital of La Paz, a unique culinary experiment exists. In 2013, Denmark's celebrated chef Claus Meyer came to Bolivia to start a cooking school and restaurant. With a nascent food scene and a diverse array of produce, the city seemed primed for Meyer's culinary philosophy—seasonal cuisine driven by locally-sourced ingredients. Today it has become a source of pride in Bolivian culture.
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- The Ghost Town Stuck in Time
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- 1:27
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- 11 years ago
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- On the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains lies a town that time forgot. Bodie, Calif. was once a mining village with 10,000 residents. Today, it looks as if the townsfolk simply vanished one day: cues remain on the pool tables, jackets hang next to unmade beds and arithmetic lessons adorn the schoolhouse chalkboard. It's a relic of the past covered in three inches of dust.
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- Liberia's Chalk and Easel Printing Press
- Runtime
- 2:35
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Alfred Sirleaf runs "The Daily Talk" in downtown Monrovia. It is a chalkboard that he updates daily with local and international news. His main goal is to help educate the people of Liberia about what is happening in society. For those who can't read, he will read the articles aloud. Without a major backer, his only financial support comes from local donations.
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- A Gentle Giant: Becoming the Great American Sumo
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- 3:03
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Roy Sims, a lifelong competitor, was looking for a less-violent contact sport when he heard about an amateur sumo wrestling competition. Two years later, he has become America's top sumo wrestler. But the road to glory hasn't been easy for this family man.
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- Hand Job: Wild Tales from Professional Hand Models
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Put a face to the hands that you see in advertisements and find out what it takes to have professionally good-looking hands (hint: manicures, manicures, manicures). Meet Ellen Sirot, Tom Nikko and Susan Schell and learn what life is like as a body part model.
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- How Instant Ramen Became an Overnight Success
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Most people associate ramen with broke college students, but the story behind these instant noodles is far more surprising. The instant dinner is the brainchild of Momofuku Ando, a Japanese businessman who was on a mission to solve a post-WWII hunger crisis.
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- In Pakistan, Hitch a Ride for Free
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Ashiq Ali is a motorcycle mechanic in Hyderabad, Pakistan. He and his best friend Zafar have been cruising the city's streets for 10 years, offering rides to people who can't afford their own vehicles—all for free. Ali says he does it because it brings him peace. If you ever need a ride in Hyderabad, Ali's got your back.
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- Welcome to the Weirdmazing World of Great Big Story
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- 0:51
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Feed your curiosity: Explore the depths of the ocean, the reaches of our cosmos, and meet all the *weirdmazing* people and creatures that make our planet so exciting. We’re a different kind of video network, and we can’t wait to meet you. Welcome to Great Big Story.
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- This Smartly-Dressed Lemur Is Critically Endangered
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- This is Kizzy, a black and white ruffed lemur. She lives high in the trees and calls the rainforests of Eastern Madagascar home. Unfortunately, home is disappearing. Though Kizzy doesn’t have many natural predators, accelerated habitat loss from logging has left her species critically endangered.
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- The Man Behind New York's Celebrity-Themed Ice Cream
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- If you’re in the mood for some Truffle Shuffle or Foxy Brown ice cream, there’s only one place to go: Mikey Likes It Ice Cream. Michael “Mikey” Cole opened his pop culture-inspired shop down the street from where he grew up. Following a six-month stint in jail, Cole looked for an opportunity to reinvent himself and began making frozen treats. Now, he's got a burgeoning company that gives back to the community. Now that's a smooth operator.
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- Title
- Meet the Woman Saving Missouri's Bats
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- 3:01
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Kirsten Alvey-Mudd may not look like the superhero you typically associate with bats, but she's doing important work to save these nocturnal creatures. When white-nose syndrome began killing bats in her home state, she founded the Missouri Bat Census. Her goal is to survey and track the health of as many bats as possible so that she can help keep these flying mammals in the air.
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- Water Fight! Soaking in the Thai New Year
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- 1:22
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- 11 years ago
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- Every April, Thailand rings in the new year with water buckets and squirt guns. The annual Songkran festival falls during the country's hottest month, and in addition to parades, people celebrate by soaking each other in a massive water fight. The custom symbolizes a cleansing of the past year's misfortunes. Also, it looks ridiculously fun.
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- This Town Has No Doors, No Locks and No Crime
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- 2:16
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- The Indian state of Maharashtra has one of the country's highest crime rates, but the small village of Shani Shingnapur is a special exception to this regional statistic. In Shani Shingnapur, you won't find doors or locks on any buildings. Villagers rely on faith to protect them, and they say there's been no theft for 400 years.
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- Scouting American Giants for Aussie Rules Football
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- 2:55
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Every year, the Australian Football League comes to the United States to scout college basketball seniors who are at least 6 feet 7 inches tall. In Aussie rules football, it helps to be tall and athletic, so former basketball players have a distinct advantage. The catch? Most American recruits have never heard of this sport from Down Under. Sport ball!
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- This Is What Extinction Sounds Like
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- 3:27
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Bernie Krause has been recording wildlife sounds, or "soundscapes," for over forty years. He's amassed the largest archive in the world, and in doing so, can chart how wildlife sounds have changed over the course of climate change. Listen for yourself: the rising silence speaks volumes.
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