Great Big Story
The True Story Behind 'NBA Jam'
- Title
- The True Story Behind 'NBA Jam'
- Runtime
- 2:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- "He's heating up ... he's on fire!" How could we forget the sounds of our all-time favorite basketball video game? We take you into the creation of “NBA Jam,” and introduce you to the game’s idiosyncratic creators.
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- How the Revolving Door Was Born Out of Awkward Encounters
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Imagine arriving at a door the same time as another stranger. You’re both trying to be polite and neither of you wants to enter first, but you can’t seem to agree who’ll open the door. Enter Theophilus Van Kannel. A hatred of awkward encounters led the American inventor to create the world’s first revolving door.
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- Title
- The Only B-Girl In Alaska
- Runtime
- 2:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Bri McMillen, a.k.a. “B-Girl Snap One,” has jumped out of planes and played all kinds of sports, but nothing gives her the same thrill as break-dancing. Alaska’s only female break-dancer also only competes against men. In her professional life, McMillen is a UH-60 Blackhawk mechanic who credits her job with teaching her self-discipline.
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- The Zoo Run By Inmates
- Runtime
- 2:42
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Monroe County Detention Facility in Key West, Fla., is not a typical jail. At Monroe, inmates help run a zoo. The facility has 150 animals, like goats, sheep, sloths and kinkajous. Caring for the animals helps inmates with their rehabilitation and can also reduce their sentences.
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- True to Type: Running America's Last Linotype Newspaper
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- "The Saguache Crescent" newspaper in Saguache, Colo., has been printing its news the same way since the 1800s. Publisher Dean Coombs' family has had the business for three generations, and has helped print out the weekly broadsheet on a linotype since he was 12 years old.
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- Title
- A Pouch In Need of Protection: The Matschie's Tree Kangaroo Climbs For Survival
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- This rare marsupial is extremely threatened. It spends most of its days up in the tree canopy and is so rare, it can only be found in the mountainous rainforests of northeastern Papua New Guinea. Oil drilling and logging are destroying its native habitat and its fur has made it attractive for hunters. This is the Matschie’s tree kangaroo.
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- The Data Detective: One Doctor's Quest to Fix Cesarean Sections
- Runtime
- 3:48
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Dr. Neel Shah is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. Recently, he has concentrated his efforts on understanding the causes of rising rates of cesarean sections and reducing risks associated with the surgery. This is the fourth part of our “Instigators" series, which profiles people fighting for change in women’s health.
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- Title
- The Hotel That Time Forgot
- Runtime
- 2:29
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Across the border from Syria, in a forgotten Lebanese city, sits an unexpected building. The Grand Hotel Palmyra. The hotel hasn't closed since it opened in 1874, even as war has raged just outside its doors. Owner Rima Husseini says that "no one has a right to touch hotel Palmyra, except for time."
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- Title
- The Soviet Past of Tetris
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Did you know that Tetris has a Soviet past? The iconic '80s video game is the brainchild of Russian computer programmer, Alexey Pajitnov, who worked for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Academy of Sciences. Alexey always had a knack for math, computers and puzzles. It was that knack that lead him to create the best video game of all time.
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- This Woman's Animals Talk to Her About American Politics
- Runtime
- 3:06
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Faye Rogers speaks with her donkey about crime shows. The New Zealander is an animal communicator who helps others better understand their pets.
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- Title
- Rubbers Reinvented: Meika Hollender's Quest to Create Sustainable Sex Products
- Runtime
- 2:07
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Meika Hollender is an MBA graduate of New York University’s Stern School of Business who recently launched a new brand of sexual health products called “Sustain.” These include Fair Trade condoms free of toxic chemicals. This is the third installment in our “Instigators” series, which profiles people fighting for change in women’s health.
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- Title
- This is How the World Celebrates New Years
- Runtime
- 1:34
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Before you go out and party this new years, line your stomach with some worldly new years food traditions.
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- Title
- Where Illegal Food Goes to Die
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- She's been threatened with voodoo and death threats, but U.S. customs supervisor Ellie Scaffa doesn't let that stop her. Scaffa's job is to dispose of of contraband food, and you won't believe the amazing variety of foods that she sees every day.
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- This Is the Most Difficult Expedition on the Planet
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The arctic expedition to the North Pole is a daunting, freezing trek that only 48 people have successfully completed. Unfortunately, because of climate change, the world may not have too many more chances to try. Eric Larsen takes us on a frigid journey to the desolate, mesmerizing landscapes of the frozen north.
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- Title
- Chestnuts Roasting on an Animated Fire (Yule Log)
- Runtime
- 1:00:04
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- What's better than a Yule log on Christmas? Nothing. Look out for more Great Big Stories soon. In the meantime, kick back and enjoy this crackling fire. Happy holidays friends, and thanks for everything this past year.
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- Title
- The 2015 Great Big Story Awards Show (Teaser)
- Runtime
- 0:16
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Join us for the biggest night in internet video. The 2015 GBAs. It's coming... http://www.greatbigstory.com
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- Title
- And Just Like That, You're Struck: The Aquatic World with Philippe Cousteau
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Philippe Cousteau is back with another installment of “The Aquatic World.” The mantis shrimp has 16 color receptors in its eyes. This makes its light-detecting ability astronomically better and can help it spot prey quicker, making it an extraordinary hunter. It’s only about four inches long, but can strike with the force of 335 pounds.
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- Title
- The 82-Year-Old Skydiver
- Runtime
- 3:30
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Eighty-two-year-old Dilys Price holds the Guinness World Record as the Oldest Woman Sky Diver in the world. She made her first parachute jump at the age of 54 and has completed more than 1,000 since then. Fly with Price as she goes on her latest jump.
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- Title
- Instigators: Michelle Hartney's Quest to End Maternal Mortality
- Runtime
- 3:41
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Michelle Hartney is using her art to shine a light on the increasing dangers of childbirth and maternal care. This is the second part of our “Instigators" series, which profiles four people creating change in women’s health.
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- Title
- The Godfather of Tween Board Games
- Runtime
- 2:00
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Mike Gray knows a bit about the tween psyche: Among his greatest games are "Mall Madness" and "Dream Phone." We caught up with Gray to get the story on the first crushes of your youth.
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- Title
- A Threatened National Treasure: The Fiji Banded Iguana Morphs for Survival
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Fiji iguana is a creature as stunning as it is rare. Vibrant like a jewel, these creatures are considered a national treasure by the Fijian government. Habitat loss, poaching and introduced predators have all threatened this creature’s future. This is the Fiji banded iguana.
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- Title
- This Woman Saved the Icelandic Goat
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Johanna Bergmann Porvaldsdottir, a former nurse, currently owns and operates Haafell, an Icelandic farm that has been in her family for generations. She also breeds an extremely rate and endangered species of Icelandic goat that was featured in “Game of Thrones,” which she may have saved them from extinction.
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- Title
- This Man Legally Changed His Name To Santa Claus
- Runtime
- 2:05
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In recognition of this festive season, we caught up with the real-life Santa Claus. That’s right: Old Man Christmas is a real guy who legally changed his name to Santa Claus. Santa, it turns out, lives on Long Island, owns a barbecue company called Santa’s BBQ and has been Santa for more than 20 years.
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- Title
- Meet the Man Who Wrote 'Star Wars'
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Alan Dean Foster might be the most interesting man alive. The author, weightlifter and sci-fi extraordinaire co-wrote the original Star Wars novels, took karate lessons from Chuck Norris and, to put it lightly, is well-traveled.
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- Title
- The Midwife Helping Families in Need
- Runtime
- 3:46
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Racha Talahi Lawler provides holistic pregnancy care to all of Los Angeles, but particularly to disadvantaged families who can’t afford midwifery. This is the first part of our “Instigators” series, which profiles four people creating change in women’s health.
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- Title
- Where the Bows In Holiday Car Commercials Come From
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In case you hadn’t noticed, holiday cars almost always come adorned with an iconic big red bow. But where do they come from? We tracked down the origin of those festive ribbons and met the woman who works in "bow kingdom."
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- Title
- The Amazing Camouflage of Sea Horses
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Philippe Cousteau is back with another installment of “The Aquatic World.” Camouflage is important in the ocean, and the pygmy seahorse is a master of disguise. Join Cousteau as he examines this tiny creature, which is about the size of a paperclip.
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- Title
- Fighting For the Starting Line: Chris Mosier's Quest to Compete
- Runtime
- 2:22
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Chris Mosier is the first transgender man to make Team USA, but he still faces a very real struggle: being barred from international competition because he hasn't undergone specific surgeries. Now, he is fighting for the right to compete.
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- Title
- Enter the Forest of Forgotten Cars
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Old Car City in White, Georgia contains the world’s largest known classic car junkyard. Visitors enjoy the beautiful vegetation of the Deep South that is intertwined with the hundreds of cars that reside in Old Car City. Old Car City started as a Car Dealership in 1931 and is still family owned and operated.
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- Title
- Every Mother Counts: A New Series Coming Thursday, December 17
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- We're teaming up with Every Mother Counts for a new series on incredible innovators in the women’s health field. Christy Turlington Burns, Founder of Every Mother Counts, tells us what to expect from the series when it debuts this Thursday, December 17th.
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- Title
- Step Inside Australia's Underground Homes
- Runtime
- 2:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Coober Pedy is a small desert town in Australia where the entire population lives in underground homes. With outside temperatures hovering over 100 degrees, residents made permanent homes in the cooler temperatures of old mine shafts.
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- Title
- The Surfboard Fin That's Saving the Ocean
- Runtime
- 2:37
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Tracking oceanic data is really hard. So why not turn surfboards into data-soaking sponges? That's the idea behind Smartfin. Its a surfboard fin that tracks temperature, location and other wave characteristics, and makes it easy for surfers to help scientists know more about the deep blue.
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- Title
- The Galapagos Giant Tortoise on a Comeback
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Galapagos giant tortoise is the largest living species of tortoise and can live for over 100 years. Today they exist only on two remote archipelagos. This is the Galapagos tortoise.
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- Title
- The Woman Who Lives With 1,000 Cats
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Lynea Lattanzio is a certified cat lady who would "rather have 800 cats than another man." The founder of The Cat House on The Kings oversees a 12-acre sanctuary in California with close to 800 adults and 300 kittens.
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- Title
- Marvel at Stockholm's Subway Art
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- When we ride the subway, most of us have drab, colorless stations in mind. But Stockholm went another route. Go underground to visit the world's longest art gallery.
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- Title
- The Bomb-Sniffing Rats Saving Lives In Mozambique
- Runtime
- 4:50
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- During Mozambique's bloody civil war, land mines were placed near schools, bridges and villages. After the war, de-mining the country took some serious work. Enter bomb-sniffing rats. The rodents are taught from infancy to sniff out bombs and have helped reduce detection time and costs, leading to a more stable and prosperous Mozambique. A Great Big Story by our friend Dan the Director.
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- Title
- The Toy Piano Virtuoso
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Margaret Leng Tan is the first woman to graduate with a doctorate from Juilliard and the first toy piano virtuoso. She has played her toy pianos around the world, including concerts at Carnegie Hall and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. She follows the credo, “Poor tools require better skills,” and says that playing the toy piano beautifully has taken her years to master.
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- Title
- I Have Synesthesia and Words Taste Like Meatballs
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- What is synesthesia? -- A neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second pathway. We talk to several synesthetes and recreate their experiences.
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- Title
- Welcome to the Museum of Penises
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In Reykjavik you can visit the Icelandic Phallus Museum. You read correctly — the Phallus Museum — a collection dedicated entirely to penises. Hjortur Sigurdsson is the curator and owner of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, where hundreds of specimens from different animals are housed. The largest? A 150 pound whale specimen.
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- Title
- What It Feels Like to Be a Stormtrooper
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Ralph Morse was a stormtrooper in Star Wars episodes V and IV. He tells us what it was like to don the emblematic white armor and all of the complications related to the one-size-fits-all constricting costume.
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- Title
- The Ocean's Curious Copycat Extraordinaire With Philippe Cousteau
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Philippe Cousteau is back with another installment of The Magical Aquatic World. Here he discusses the curious mimic octopus. In 1998, scientists discovered a creature in the shallow waters of Indonesia doing something quite strange — mimicking behaviors of at least eight different species.
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- Title
- Healing the Ocean With a Garden of Coral
- Runtime
- 2:28
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Coral are the backbone of the whole tropical ecosystem and if they disappear we’re in a lot of trouble says Ken Nedimeyer, founder of the Coral Restoration Foundation. The pseudo-farmer has spent a lot of time in the water and has seen too many coral die, so he plants coral in an offshore nursery near the Florida Keys and replants them on reefs.
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- Title
- Mewsic to Meow Ears
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- What is it like for a cat to be a cat? David Teie doesn’t know but he’s trying to find out. The classical musician came up with the idea of writing music for our purring feline friends, with the goal of communicating in something like their language.
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- Title
- A Professional Wrestler Bounces Back
- Runtime
- 3:11
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Once a punishing professional wrestler from New Zealand, William McDougall, aka Wilbur Force, is learning that life after the fiction and fact of the ring can be all too real. A Great Big Story by our friends at Loading Docs.
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- Title
- Hand-Mowing Every Blade in the Field
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In Addison County, Vt., a group of grass-cutters keep things sharp, natural and beautiful the old-fashioned way — with sickles and their bare hands. A Great Big Story by our friends at Jungles in Paris.
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- Title
- Keep On Rocking In the Arab World
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Tamtam has come a long way to become a singer. The soulful Saudi comes from a more conservative society where playing music is rarely seen as an acceptable career, especially for women. She sees herself as a bridge between people’s perceptions of the Middle East and the West.
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- Title
- The Cuban Crocodile Crawls for Coexistence
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Cuban crocodile is a small but aggressive species of crocodile found only in Cuba. This highly endangered reptile, which favors swamps, marshes and rivers, can only be found in Cuba’s Zapata Swamp and the Isle of Youth and has even been known to perform acts of cannibalism. This is the Cuban crocodile.
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- Title
- Dogs Will Outlive Us All
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Dogs might have a shot at outliving us all, according to Natural History Museum scientist Dr. Jack Tseng. Humans have been around and evolving for three million years, but dogs have been around for almost 40 million years and have the biological pedigree to prove it. Look no farther than inside their mouths to find out why they’re such evolutionary marvels.
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- Title
- Soap Opera: The Wild Life and Times of Dr. Bronner
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Emmanuel Heilbronner, a.k.a. “Dr. Bronner” invented the magic soaps we’ve come to know and love. Originally from Germany, the idiosyncratic soap maker lost his parents in the Holocaust and immigrated to the U.S. in 1929. He started his business making products by hand with his individual philosophy, “All-One-God_Faith” and the “Moral ABC.” Bronner’s other claims to fame include being arrested for speaking without a permit, escaping shock treatments and growing his business into the successful family company it is today.
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- Title
- Living in an Airplane | My Fascinating Aircraft Lifestyle
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Bruce Campbell lives in an airplane. Yes, an actual jet. The Portland-based aeronautics enthusiast makes his home in a converted Boeing 727 that was once used as a Greek aircraft until the mid-1960s and now resides in a forest near Portland.
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