Great Big Story
Finding Yourself Through Hip-Hop
- Title
- Finding Yourself Through Hip-Hop
- Runtime
- 2:54
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- School counselor Ian P. Levy has an unconventional teaching method. At New Visions Charter High School in the Bronx, New York, Levy uses hip-hop to help students analyze, understand and verbalize their experiences and emotions. So far, the results have been nothing short of spectacular.
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- In This Class You Eat Ice Cream
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- At Penn State University, you can study ice cream. Yes, you heard right: ice cream 101 is an actual class. Enter Dr. Bob Roberts, who's been teaching ice cream production for 25 years. On some days, students must come to class prepared to sample nine different flavors. Yum!
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- Title
- Party in a Can: The Story of Silly String
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The invention of Silly String was a complete accident that nearly didn't happen. In 1972, inventor Leonard A. Fish and chemist Robert P. Cox set out to create an aerosol spray that would act as an instant cast for broken limbs. After dozens of tests, they came upon a nozzle that emitted a consistent string, which shot about 30 feet across the room. Inspired, they decided to turn their invention into a toy. The rest is history.
Silly String is a registered trademark of Silly String Products. Visit them at http://www.silly-string.com or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sillystring
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- Title
- These Kinetic Sculptures Hypnotize You
- Runtime
- 2:27
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Anthony Howe creates the world's most mesmerizing kinetic sculptures. His wind-powered, curved-metal designs tower up to 25 feet high, and are on display in public spaces around the world. Take a break from reality as you stare at Howe's artwork and prepare to be transfixed.
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- Title
- Just Call Him the 'Time Lord'
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Dr. Judah Levine's job is to keep time standardized. In 1969, Levine helped the National Institute of Standards and Technology develop a time-keeping system that tracks time more accurately then ever before. And while he might be the "Time Lord," Levine doesn’t even wear a watch! Catch up with the “Time Lord” and visit a place where the tick-tocks never end.
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- Title
- Voguing For a Cause
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Baltimore is home to a robust ball culture (think big dance competitions). The balls have also become a home for HIV outreach, and at the center of it all is Keith Holt, a performer who also works for the Baltimore health department. He has expanded the organization's HIV education and outreach to include his community.
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- Title
- Meet Wikipedia's Resident Paleoartist
- Runtime
- 1:40
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- By day, Nobu Tamura is a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. But after work, he moonlights as one of the most prolific Wikipedia illustrators in the world. If you've seen a dinosaur, ancient bird or prehistoric creature on the website, chances are Tamura's illustrations sit at the top of the page.
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- Title
- Saving (Sculpted) Presidents
- Runtime
- 2:05
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Not many people can say they have 43 giant presidential busts sitting in their backyard, but that’s exactly what one Virginia man has. Now that they’re out of the White House and on his farm, Howard Hankins hopes to find them a new home.
Special thanks to Creative Dog Media (https://www.youtube.com/user/yahtzee5) for providing aerial footage.
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- Title
- Where Chimpanzees Get to Retire
- Runtime
- 2:29
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In 2013, a federal law retired all chimpanzees at the National Institutes of Health from lab testing. Chimp Haven was founded to respond to the need for long-term chimpanzee care. Located on 200 acres of forested land near Shreveport, La., the sanctuary is home to more than 200 chimps who get to roam free and spend their days as it suits them.
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- Title
- This Backyard Astronomer Has Discovered 300 Asteroids and Counting
- Runtime
- 3:31
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Gary Hug turned his fascination with asteroids into more than just a hobby. He built an observatory behind his house, and courtesy of his homemade reflector telescope, the "amateur" asteroid tracker has identified 300 flaming balls of ice and rock.
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- Title
- Unicycles + Football: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Fancy a new contact sport? Unicycle football could be for you. Players toss a pigskin between each other while mounted on unicycles. Just like the NFL, teams compete every Sunday, complete with halftime shows. Currently one team is undefeated: The Rolling Blackouts. Can this ragtag band of misfits take it all the way to the Stupor Bowl?
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- Title
- Journey Inside the Ghostly Temple of Trees
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In the northwest region of Cambodia, there’s a 12th century Buddhist temple that's been left almost untouched. As trees and giant roots have reclaimed their space, the temple has become one with the surrounding jungle. You might even recognize this mystical spot as the place where Angelina Jolie raided a tomb or two.
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- Title
- More Than Just a Rock Collection: Meet Meteorite Man
- Runtime
- 2:03
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Naveen Jain collects meteorites, and he has a lot of them. The meteorites may just look like a bunch of rocks, but to Jain these “space gems” represent a deep bond with the cosmos and may even hold the secret to the origins of life on this planet.
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- Title
- Art at Altitude: Snow Murals in the Mountains
- Runtime
- 2:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Simon Beck specializes in making ornate snow murals with just his snowshoes. The murals take at least an entire day to complete, and in order to really see them you have to take to the skies. Buckle in.
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- Title
- Listen For a Pin Drop In One of the World's Quietest Rooms
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- An enclosed room in a lab in Minnesota is one of the quietest places on earth. One reporter only lasted 45 minutes, and most people leave after half that time, tortured by the eerie sounds of their own body. It's just too silent.
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- Title
- The Dance of Darkness
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Butoh, or the dance of darkness, is a Japanese ritual dance born out of the chaos of World War II. Not for the feint of heart, each performance aims to unlock the primal spirit within.
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- Title
- Freedom to Play: Music As Prison Rehabilitation
- Runtime
- 2:16
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Can music heal us? The Decoda chamber ensemble is convinced it can by making music accessible to everyone. Every year, the New York City-based collective spends one week at the Lee Correctional Institution teaching inmates at the maximum security facility to play and compose music as part of a rehabilitation program.
Disclaimer: due to the sensitive nature of filming in a maximum security prison, we are not identifying the prisoners in this program.
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- Title
- The Red Ruffed Lemur and Its Shrinking World
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Of the hundreds of species of lemurs on Madagascar, it is one of the most endangered. The rainforests they call home are also highly valued for their rosewood and ebony trees -- which is where you'll find these lemurs feeding on fruit. This is the red ruffed lemur.
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- Title
- Preaching the Love of All
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Reverend Derek Terry grew up in a church that had been part of his family for five generations, but left several years after being ordained as a minister. He knew that he could not serve openly in the church as a gay man, and wanted a place where he could be himself, in front of God and his congregation. He found that in an old church in Cincinnati.
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- Title
- A Frightening Follicular Fable
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- For almost two centuries, powdered wigs were all the rage. But the chic hairpiece would have never taken off if it hadn't been for a venereal disease. Say what? By 1580, syphilis had become the worst epidemic to hit Europe since the Black Death. Victims faced open sores, blindness and hair loss. Back then, baldness was a one-way ticket to public embarrassment. Hence, where fake hair came in.
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- Title
- A Telescope So Powerful It Can See Into the Past
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- There’s a telescope deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert that takes pictures so massive that it requires a supercomputer as powerful as 16 million PCs to decipher the images. This is the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), run by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the data it’s retrieving from space, after crunched by an incredibly powerful supercomputer, is showing astronomers things about the genesis of planets, galaxies and, well, the entire universe.
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- Title
- Just Call Him the 'Eagle Whisperer'
- Runtime
- 2:48
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Jim Campbell-Spickler is brave. The wildlife biologist climbs into eagle nests hundreds of feet off the ground to capture chicks and test their blood for toxins. Ascend the high canopies with Campbell-Spickler as he avoids sharp talons in the name of science.
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- Title
- The Vintage Radio Repairman
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Despite living in a digital world, Allen Chiang embraces the art of our analog past. He has a busy hobby of restoring and selling vintage tube radios made prior to 1980. He’s basically a retro radio farmer.
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- Title
- From Fashion Model to Sled Dog Musher
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Zoya DeNure spent nearly 14 years as a model, but found herself yearning for a different life. Now, she's mushing dogs in Alaska and training for the Iditarod. DeNure also runs a kennel with her husband, saving dogs from mushers who no longer want them.
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- Title
- Inside the School that Trains Umpires
- Runtime
- 2:28
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Wendelstedt Umpire School is the only independently-run professional umpire school recognized by Major League Baseball. Students learn how to squat for hours, make the right foul calls and always keep home plate spotless. Let's playyyyyy ballllll!
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- Title
- An Elegant Crowned Crane on the Edge
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- This is Olivia. These elegant cranes stand about four feet tall and mostly live in grasslands near water, but are quickly disappearing. Habitat loss and illegal removal of their eggs are taking an enormous toll. This is the East African crowned crane.
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- Title
- It's Like a Hot Tub, Except Filled with Beer
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Sure, hot tubs are refreshing, but why use water when there's beer? Andrea Stigger of Starkenberg Brewery in Austria details how the company transformed one of its fermenting vats into a beer pool for visiting guests. And yes, it's drinkable -- if you're into beer of the warm and bitter variety.
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- Title
- The 19th Century Tinder: Welcome to the Racy World of Escort Cards
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- So, may I see you home? In the late 19th century, Americans exchanged cheeky personalized cards to start a romance. Call them the ink-and-paper Tinder. Escort cards helped people find intimacy while breaking the strict conventions of social interaction.
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- Title
- 75 Years of Brotherly Love
- Runtime
- 2:03
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Walter Davenport remembers the day his brother Ray was born. It’s been 75 years now, and Walter still has his playmate, business partner and best friend.
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- Title
- The Jump: Meet the Ballsy Originator of Bungee
- Runtime
- 3:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- With a healthy mix of imagination, balls and roughly remembered Newtonian physics, a kiwi bloke jumped off a bridge in 1980 and started what has become a worldwide phenomenon. ‘The Jump’ is an original story of bungee jumping and its unsung creator Chris Sigglekow unearthed by filmmakers Alex Sutherland and Rebekah Kelly. A Great Big Story by our friends at Loading Docs.
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- Title
- Does a Snowball in Hell Really Stand a Chance?
- Runtime
- 3:18
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- When something is inexplicably outlandish - ridiculously unfeasible - the idea is said to have “a snowball’s chance in hell.” But what if you could drop a snowball into a 2000-degree cauldron, and have it cheat hell on earth? Meet the people making the impossible, unimpossible.
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- Title
- What If Walls Actually Listened?
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Everyone knows that walls can’t talk. But what if they could listen and help us share? What if one of history’s most famous barriers—the Berlin Wall—could actually connect us through a simple, beautiful story?
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- Title
- Can You Really Catch Lightning In a Bottle?
- Runtime
- 2:28
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- When something is so difficult, it’s practically impossible, it’s said to be like “catching lightning in a bottle.” What happens when an expression becomes a reality? What if you could actually capture lightning in a bottle? Meet the people making the impossible, unimpossible.
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- Title
- Learning to Dance with Your Demons
- Runtime
- 2:54
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Butoh is a Japanese ritual dance that expresses our entire being: the good and the bad. The now-global art-form is inspired by the emotions and movements of everyday life. Vangeline, a French-American Butoh dancer and instructor, teaches the "dance of darkness" in her studio and also to prisoners in New York state correctional facilities.
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- Title
- Meet the Washing Machine Club Gentlemen
- Runtime
- 1:51
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Dreading laundry day? Not these guys. This dedicated community of middle-aged men LOVES washing clothes. Founded in 1984, the group now has 3,000 members from around the world. Members gather several times a year for what they call "wash-ins." Some even travel from as far away as Russia or Canada.
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- Title
- The Double Amputee Fitness Trainer
- Runtime
- 2:05
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Zack Ruhl is stronger than you. The 26-year-old double amputee CrossFit instructor bench presses 445 pounds and can climb a rope while attached to his wheelchair. And that’s not all — Ruhl owns a gym and trains other adaptive athletes for free.
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- Title
- A Braver Man Than You: Wading the Waves with Wild Sea Lions
- Runtime
- 2:06
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Sea lions — they're chubby and even cuddly-looking. But some people claim they're territorial and aggressive. Not freediver Galyn Franklin. He’s been swimming up close and personal with them since he was a child and has developed a close relationship with the animals. For Franklin, swimming with wild sea lions is like visiting the local dog park.
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- Title
- Zulu P Represent!
- Runtime
- 2:06
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Zulu P is a group made up of four rappers who have their own approach to hip-hop. They play at a venue that hosts a program for adults with developmental disabilities. The group recently came out with a mixtape and performs around New York City, in addition to recording in the studio.
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- Title
- The Mystery of Rabbit Island
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Imagine an island filled only with rabbits. Okunoshima is a small island in Japan’s Inland Sea. It's called "Rabbit Island" because of the thousands of feral rabbits that roam the land. No one knows exactly how they got there, but since the end of World War II, the rabbits have been doing what they do best … multiplying.
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- Title
- Crawling the Canopy for Survival with the Red Panda
- Runtime
- 1:15
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Meet Wicket. He's a red panda. Slightly larger than a house cat, with reddish-brownish fur and a raccoon-like tail, he lives in trees and feeds mainly on bamboo. Habitat loss and poaching are a serious threat, however, and it is said that fewer than 10,000 exist in the wild. This is the red panda.
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- Title
- Remembering Neon: Vegas' Vintage Signs Get a New Lease on Life
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Neon Museum off the Vegas Strip is a relic of the city’s glitzy past. Signs from hotels and casinos that once catered to Vegas royalty cook under the hot desert sun. The busted neon bulbs and chipped paint are point to the signs' long legacy. YESCO, the original neon sign makers in Las Vegas, are trying to save a bit of the past in a city always favors the new.
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- Title
- Enemies of House Targaryen Beware: Dragons Are Real!
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Draco volans, more commonly known as the flying dragon, looks like a miniature version of something Daenerys Targaryen flies on in "Game of Thrones." This 10-inch long multi-colored reptile can spread out folds of skin attached to its movable ribs to form "wings" that it uses to glide from tree-to-tree over distances of up to 25 feet.
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- Title
- Scouring the Serengeti for the Elusive Black Rhino
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- It’s rare to see a black rhino in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. Since he started working as a safari guide, Nathoo R. Nathoo has only seen six in the 5,700 square mile park. Because of habitat loss and poaching, they are constantly on the move. A Great Big Film by our friends at Jungles in Paris.
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- Title
- Out West In Jackson Hole ... China
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Thinking of moving out west? Maybe you should look into Jackson Hole, China. Over the past decade more than a thousand families have settled into this community two hours northwest of Beijing. There’s everything an aspiring cowboy could wish for, including timber-frame houses with spacious backyards and a town church straight out of little house on the prairie.
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- Title
- She Takes Flight: What It Feels Like to Fly
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Ellen Brennan has been flying since 2008. The wingsuiter, who holds the world record holder for fastest flying woman, leaps off cliffs and flies through the air at speeds of up to 120 mph. You believe you can fly? She actually does it!
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- Title
- If They Land Face-up They're Mine! The Legend of POGS
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- You remember POGS. The small, round, cartoon-adorned collectibles that started out as milk bottle caps. In 1991, an elementary school teacher in Hawaii introduced them to her students, thinking it would improve their math skills. As the game grew in popularity, businessman Alan Rypinski purchased the trademark and founded the World Pog Federation, kicking off the '90s phenomenon.
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- Title
- Singing Without Sound: Meet Mandy Harvey
- Runtime
- 3:03
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Mandy Harvey is a singer-songwriter working on her fourth album. She was studying music in college when she lost her hearing. She sings by feeling vibrations in the floor, and by using the muscle memory of her vocal cords to sing notes.
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- Title
- Welcome to the Chilling Church of Bones
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Just outside Prague, there's a church adorned with human bones. It's called the Sedlec Ossuary and it's filled with over 40,000 artistically arranged bones, including skulls. While that might seem morbid, the bones are of people who wanted to be buried somewhere holy, and this peaceful chapel is their final resting place.
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- Title
- Painted Pantyhose: How a Nylon Shortage Inspired DIY Stockings
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Nylon stockings hit the market after the World's Fair in 1935 and people couldn't get enough of them. But during World War II, panty hose disappeared from stores. They became an essential material for the military, which cut down on consumer supply. Because nylon was so widely sought after, women created alternatives, which included painting their legs with gravy juice.
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- Title
- Real Live Cave Music: Marvel at the World's Largest Instrument
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The world’s largest musical instrument is located in one of the most unlikely places — deep underground. Sitting atop a pedestal, the Great Stalacpipe Organ looks like a normal church organ, but instead of metal pipes, uses stalactites around the cave to produce a haunting sound.
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