Great Big Story
The Laser-Based Science Behind 3D Holograms
- Title
- The Laser-Based Science Behind 3D Holograms
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Meet Jason Sapan, aka Dr. Laser, who has been tinkering with holograms since the '70s, and even has a lab dedicated to convincing you that the 3D projection you're seeing is real. For Dr. Laser, holograms are a labor of love.
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- Title
- Beware the Bobbit Worm!
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Lorena Bobbitt was infamous in the ‘90s for the way she took revenge on her cheating husband’s ...um… member. Turns out her legend lives on through a very precocious sea worm, known to attack with such speed that its prey sometimes gets sliced in half. Be very afraid.
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- Title
- The Humboldt Penguin Slides for Survival
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Meet Oliver, a Humboldt penguin. Don’t let his small size fool you — he’s built to swim, and those strong wings can propel him through the water at nearly 20 mph. He’s one of just 12,000 left in the wild. This is the Humboldt penguin.
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- Title
- The World's Cutest "Preschool"
- Runtime
- 2:21
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The International Animal Rescue organization recently opened an orangutan "pre-school" in Borneo where orphaned baby orangutans learn to climb, socialize and live among their peers without the threat of poaching or habitat destruction. Could there be anything cuter?
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- Title
- Roping as a Way of Life: The Proud History of Texas' Black Cowboys
- Runtime
- 2:40
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Cleo Hearn has been going to rodeos, roping calves and living the cowboy life since the 1950s. As a professional black cowboy, he's also faced racism and significant challenges that white cowboys have not. Now, he puts on cowboys of color rodeos across the state.
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- Title
- She Was the Best Female Rock Climber In the World By Age 14
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Ashima Shiraishi can scale boulders and rock faces that most people twice her age simply can't. The 14-year-old New York native started climbing boulders in Central Park when she was just six years old and hasn't looked back since. Keep going Ashima!
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- Title
- Why You Were Forced to Square Dance
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- It's 1995 — you're in middle school gym class, and what is your over-enthusiastic P.E. instructor forcing you to do? Square dance. That's right. For those of you who ever had to grab your partner and awkwardly step back and forth to country music, you have square dance enthusiast Henry Ford to thank for your slick moves.
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- Title
- The Valley Where Bridges Breathe
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In a remote village of northeastern India, locals have been "growing" bridges from living trees for hundreds of years. You wouldn't be wrong to say that these looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.
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- Title
- Dysentery, Typhoid and Snakebites: The Early Days of "Oregon Trail"
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- One of the most iconic computer games of your youth was actually created before computers existed. The first version was essentially played on a typewriter. Whaaaat?
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- Title
- The Ocean's Nightlight: Phytoplankton | The Aquatic World with Philippe Cousteau
- Runtime
- 2:05
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Philippe Cousteau is back with another installment of “The Aquatic World.” Phytoplankton are remarkable minuscule ocean-dwellers. They're too small to be seen individually by the unaided eye, but in larger numbers appear as colored patches on the water surface. Some even glow in the dark. They’re also the foundation of the oceanic food chain.
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- Title
- When Normal Skiing Just Won't Do
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Skiing is pedestrian. Why not up the ante? Maybe add a galloping horse? Welcome to the sport of skijoring. Meet rider Richard Weber III, skier Darin Anderson and their horses Derby and Prince as they pummel the snowy streets of Red River, NM, during a recent skijoring competition.
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- Title
- Dr. Adventure is Making the Bionic Man
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Seth Kane, aka Dr. Adventure, is creating fully-functioning prosthetic body parts in his laboratory, The New Flesh Workshop. Science fiction is really real.
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- Title
- The Dentist Who Created Cotton Candy
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In 1899, a confectioner named John C. Wharton partnered with an amateur inventor named James Morrison to issue a patent. The device they dreamed up was the precursor to the metal drum-switch, which are used today to make cotton candy. The two debuted their invention at the 1904 World’s Fair to wide acclaim. But despite the success of the spun sugar business, Morrison eventually returned to his day job — he was a dentist.
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- Title
- Ski the Old School Way
- Runtime
- 2:51
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- It’s so old school at this ski mountain that snowboarding isn’t even allowed. And that’s not all — they have one of the last single-chair lifts in the country. So snap in your bindings and get ready to ride through Vermont’s backcountry like it’s 1955. A film from Great Big Storytellers and friends, Jungles in Paris.
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- Title
- This Way to 'Conjunction Junction'
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Bob Dorough composed the beloved "Schoolhouse Rock!" songs that taught us elementary school math and grammar. The Grammy-winning musician has also worked with Miles Davis and jazz pianist Blossom Dearie. Dorough is 92 years old, still performing and has not forgotten the function of conjunctions.
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- A Jumping Lemur On The Brink: The Coquerel's Sifaka Hops For Survival
- Runtime
- 1:07
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The endangered (and adorable) Coquerel’s sifaka is a medium-sized lemur native to Madagascar. Coquerel’s sifaka is found in only two protected areas of the country. The principal threats to its existence are deforestation and hunting pressure. This is the Coquerel’s sifaka.
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- Title
- History Will Remember the Inventor of Liquid Ass
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Liquid Ass was the brainchild of a prankster named Allen Wittman. A whiff is said to smell of “butt crack and sewer.” Lovely. We put on a brave face (and a mask) to venture into the factory and get the story of how this famous gag came to be. (And yes our noses are still recovering).
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- Title
- Peek Into Japan's Ghost Island from "Skyfall"
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Hashima (“battleship” in Japanese) Island is a 16-acre abandoned island about 10 miles off the coast of Nagasaki. With crumbling concrete buildings, abandoned undersea coalmines and a dramatic surrounding sea wall, the island is an eerie testament to Japan’s period of rapid industrialization. It is also a stark reminder of its dark history as a site of forced labor during World War II.
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- Title
- So Chill: The Ice Farmer of Colorado
- Runtime
- 2:23
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Ouray Ice Park is a manmade ice climbing venue operated in a spectacular natural gorge near Ouray, Colo. “Ice farmer” Alexander Bianchi crafts all of the ice used on the wall. We caught up with this cold customer to get the story behind his slick creations.
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- Title
- Welcome to the Town of the Dead
- Runtime
- 2:32
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- For 75 years, Colma, Calif., has been steadily collecting bodies, and it's constantly getting ‘deader.’ As of 2009, there were 1,500 living residents and 1.5 million marked graves in the city. Seventy-three percent of the land belongs to the dead with the rest occupied by people who have a great sense of humor. The town's motto is, "It's Great To Be Alive In Colma."
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- Title
- The Story of the Little Tree Car Air Fresheners: So Fresh and So Clean
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- You can find them in seemingly every taxi cab in the world, and are the general go-to car air freshener. But where did they come from? Meet, Julius Samann, the inventor of ‘little trees.’
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- What It Feels Like 10,000 Feet Under the Sea
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Intense dark, intense pressure (literally) and certain death upon mechanical failure. Welcome to exploration in the deep ocean. We caught up with submarine pilot Bruce Strickrott, Alvin Manager of Operational Scientific Services at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, to see what it feels like 10,000 feet under the sea. Hint: there's no talking crab from a Disney film.
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- Title
- From Cold Cases to Positive IDs: A Forensic Art Class Helps Uncover Victims
- Runtime
- 2:16
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Forensic Sculpture Workshop at the New York Academy of Art pairs sculpture students with the skulls from actual cold cases. Their mission is to create clay busts, which are then used to identify unknown murder victims.
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- Title
- Diving Deep On a Single Breath
- Runtime
- 2:42
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Imagine holding your breath as you fall endlessly deeper into the sea. For some, it sounds like a nightmare, but for others it's heaven on earth. Take the plunge through layers of salty sea and light with freediving master Aharon Solomons.
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- Title
- Sniffing Out Parkinson's: A Nose for Trouble
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Parkinson’s disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose. Joy Milne, a Scottish grandmother, has the inexplicable ability to spot Parkinson’s by smelling it on someone. She first noticed what she describes as a “musky odor” on her husband and is so adept that she can spot Parkinson’s before doctors diagnose it.
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- Title
- La Reina of the Ring: Juanita "La Cariñosa" Fights for Respect
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Merillanos Saez (aka “Juanita La Cariñosa”) is a Cholita — an iconic and colorful Bolivian woman. Unlike most Bolivian women, however, she has dedicated her life to becoming a lucha libre wrestler. Despite going against traditional Bolivian gender roles, Juanita lives for the response of the crowds and the respect that she's earned from fighting both men and women.
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- Title
- A Poisonous Plight: The Guatemalan Beaded Lizard Fights Off Extinction
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Guatemalan beaded lizard is a highly endangered species of venomous beaded lizard that is endemic to the dry forests of a small area in southeastern Guatemala. It is the rarest and most endangered of the beaded lizards and scientists believe only fewer than 200 exist in the world. This is the Guatemalan Beaded Lizard.
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- Title
- Lobster Dinner: From Bottom-Dweller to Status Symbol
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Lobster was once served to prisoners and thought of as a poor man’s food fit only for the indigent, indentured and incarcerated. These days a lobster will go for easily $5 a pound and is considered a delicacy. This is the strange culinary story of how a bottom-dwelling crustacean went from prison food to upscale fare.
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- Title
- Losing His Sight, This Photographer Chases the Light
- Runtime
- 2:20
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Artist Steven Erra's vision is slowly deteriorating. He didn’t know he had a disease that would take his sight until he was nearly finished with his art degree. But that diagnosis only motivated Erra further. These days, he works with The Seeing With Photography Collective, a group of sight-impaired artists who specialize in “light painting.”
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- Title
- The Last of the Seltzermen
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Gomberg Seltzer Works is the last seltzer company in New York City. It's been around since 1953, fills up 3,000 bottles and has seltzer deliverymen attend to their customers in the New York area. There are eight seltzer men at Gomberg, who are all pretty entering old age. This is a story about the remaining few dedicated to the craft of old fashion seltzer.
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- Title
- Odd Couple of the Sea: Pistol and Goby | The Aquatic World with Philippe Cousteau
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The pistol shrimp and goby fish are visually an odd couple, but their strengths and weaknesses complement each other in ways that make for a very fruitful friendship -- one that's key to their survival as well.
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- Title
- Love Letters in the Sky
- Runtime
- 5:28
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- If you could write down one thing you're thankful for on a balloon and send it into the sky, what would you say? Today we take time to appreciate the simple things that give our lives big meaning. A Film by Mat Sheldon.
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- Title
- The Origin of That Old-Timey Accent in Classic Movies
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In the 1920s and into the 1950s, Hollywood had a particular way of talking. It was called the Midatlantic or the Transatlantic accent. But we don't speak like that anymore. The accent was acquired, so there's no line tracing it back through history — but we gave it a try.
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- Title
- Fly Fishing in Iceland's Glacial Rivers
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- You may never master the skill, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the flow. Layer up, pack your rod and hit the icy streams with fly fisherman Stanji Ben. A Great Big Story by Kerrin Sheldon and Gaston Blanchet.
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- Title
- The Secrets of Nickelodeon's Hidden Temple
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Were you more of a red jaguar? A blue barracuda? Or a green monkey? "Legends of the Hidden Temple" will long live in our memories as one of Nickelodeon's greatest game shows of all time. We take you back to the days when every post-school afternoons began with "the moat” and only a coveted few could enter Olmec's Temple.
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- Title
- The Origin of the Inflatable Man
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- "On sale now!" "Best offer today only!" You have definitely seen those weird floppy inflatable men on roadsides around the country. But did you know these spineless vinyl shills have a real back story? We delve into the history of advertisings most dynamic pitchmen.
Photo credit: Doron Gazit
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- Title
- Get Lost in this Insane Thai Psych Rock
- Runtime
- 2:39
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In 2011, the Khun Narin Electric Phin Band uploaded a video of one of their performances to YouTube. Two years later, they were signed to L.A.'s "Innovative Leisure." We reveal the method behind the group's psychedelic blend of Eastern and Western musical styles.
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- Title
- Seeing Colors Differently
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Maureen Seaberg has the elusive "fourth cone" in her retina and sees 100 million colors. Wendy is color blind and sees the world in fewer shades than most of us. We catch up with both of them to find out what it’s like to see the world in entirely different color spectrums.
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- Title
- What It Feels Like to Sleep In an Active Volcano
- Runtime
- 2:00
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Most people are told to stay away from active volcanoes, but a select group of researchers actually have to sleep in them. We caught up with volcanist Ken Sims to find out what it feels like to make your home in an uninhabitable, dangerous place riddled with heat and noxious gasses.
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- Title
- Dancing in the Dark
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Dancer Peter Vosper sheds light on what happens on an average weeknight when a room full of strangers is enclosed in a dark room. Individuals unite at No Lights No Lycra to lose their inhibitions and cast off their social masks in the absence of criticism. The shy dancers are immediately electrified as they exit out of the doors of Grey Lynn Library Hall. A journey into the transformative power of dance.
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- Title
- Sex-Crazed Sea Slugs: The Aquatic World with Philippe Cousteau
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Philippe Cousteau is back with another installment of “The Aquatic World.” Nudibranchs are about the size of our fingertips, found all over the world and have bright, poisonous chemosensory organs on their bodies. But even more interesting, they are mostly hemaphordidic and spend most of their time looking for food and a mate. Nudibranchs: sex-crazed, poisonous sea slugs.
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- Title
- A New Disguise Every Day
- Runtime
- 2:48
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- For 365 days, Hollywood prop maker/art designer Michael Gump, aka Bob Bugs, has been keeping a daily art diary. But this isn’t just any diary. Gump wears disguises on his face every day and captures them on Instagram with a different color scheme and set of props. See how wild this master of disguise gets.
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- Title
- The Dulser of Dark Harbor
- Runtime
- 5:16
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Dark Harbor on Grand Manan Island is the dulse capital of the world. Dulsers pick edible seaweed off the low tide. Dulsers tend to run in generations. The seaweed is still picked by hand dried by the sun outside. A Great Big Story by our friends at Jungles in Paris.
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- Title
- Transitioning to Freedom
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- At 20, Abby Stein realized there was no point in hiding anymore and came out as the woman she always was. Now 24, she has spent the last four years finding her way in the secular world, which has been difficult; she was raised in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in a prominent family of distinguished rabbis.
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- Title
- A Tiny Tortoise That Needs a Big Hand: The Spider Tortoise
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Found in a small section of Madagascar, these little guys are fighting for their existence.
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- Title
- GRAVE DIGGER: The Definition of a Monster Truck
- Runtime
- 2:19
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Thirty years ago, Dennis Anderson brought the world GRAVE DIGGER, the most well-known and popular monster truck, which has since spawned a franchise. We took a trip to North Carolina to interview him and walk through his working museum of all things Grave Digger.
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- Title
- Riding Silk: Swimming With Horses In Montego Bay
- Runtime
- 2:05
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Most of the time, riding horses means taking up the reigns, holding on tight and feeling the smoothness and power of the animal, but what if you could just float through tropical waters alongside them? Take a magical journey to Montego Bay, Jamaica to swim with equine friends. A Great Big Story by our friends at Jungles In Paris.
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- Title
- Why We Were Forced to Play the Recorder
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Most of us don't have fond memories of playing the recorder. Admit it, you never picked it up after your last elementary school music class session. Well, here's the story behind the high-pitched musical instrument.
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- Title
- The Ultimate Badass Fish
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Originally from Asia, the northern snakehead fish has made a comfortable home as an invasive species in America. But what makes it so successful? As you'll see, this slippery customer has all the tools to thrive in a variety of environments. Scary!
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- Title
- A Mysterious Hungry Creature of the Deep | The Aquatic World with Philippe Cousteau
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Philippe Cousteau is back with another installment of “The Aquatic World.” Here he explores the deep ocean and its rarely seen creatures. The giant isopod is one of the most fascinating and strange looking. These crustaceans live thousands of feet beneath the ocean’s surface, grow up to two-feet-long and can survive for years without eating.
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