✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 23, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
October 22nd, 2025

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In today's science news: Why peanut allergy rates are falling 🥜, crystals that act like living creatures 💎, and why snakes pee solid 🐍. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

After a 20-year search, digital designer Owen Davies finally rediscovered this 1936 Happy Harmonies Halloween cartoon on the Internet Archive. In Bottles, an elderly pharmacist falls asleep and his poison bottle springs to life as a cackling skeleton that douses him with shrinking chemicals.

 

Artist and puppet maker Laura Mathews designs and builds articulated animal sculptures and puppets that move with lifelike precision. Drawing on her study of real anatomy and biomechanics, she brings each creature to life with wood, leather, string, wire, and 3D-printed details.

 

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🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🥜 After doctors reversed previous avoidance guidance, early peanut introduction reduced allergies by 43% • Science Alert

🌱 Plants in dry landscapes arrange themselves in hidden patterns that maximize water use • Live Science

🥁 A 15th-century Inca "carpa uasi" in Peru appears designed specifically to amplify sounds like drumming • Phys.org

💎 Scientists created crystals from spinning particles that twist, shatter, and rebuild themselves like living organisms • Science Daily

🐍 TIL: Why snakes pee solid instead of liquid urine • TheScientist

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