✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • December 4, 2025

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In today's science news: What happens to your teeth when you eat sugar 🦷, why family dogs are good for teens 🐶, and a couple of monkeys tap to the Backstreet Boys 🐒. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

Can comics help students learn? Cartoonist Gene Luen Yang explains how visual storytelling puts information control in students' hands.

Paleontologists dive into Florida's sinkholes to find Ice Age fossils from mammoths and mastodons. The springs preserve bones that fell in when these animals died near riverbanks thousands of years ago.

What do piano scales and organic chemistry have in common? UCLA Professor Neil Garg demonstrates how both start with simple building blocks that create infinite possibilities.

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🦷 When you eat sugar, bacteria produces tooth-dissolving acid within seconds • Science Alert

🐶 Family dogs alter teen gut microbiomes, promoting empathy and better mental health • Popular Science

🐒 Two macaques learned to tap along to Backstreet Boys’ "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" • Smithsonian Magazine

📱 Twelve-year-olds with smartphones show 31-62% higher risks for depression, obesity, and sleep problems • Science Alert

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From Rion: Tokyo-based Oink Games might be one of my favorite creators to watch for unusual and creative games. Their small boxes reveal engaging worlds and really fun interactions. DroPolter, for example, has you battling ghosts that are afraid of random objects that you'll need to drop from your palm one-handed. Drop the wrong objects = start over. Drop all the right objects first = get a bell. Drop a bell the next time, the ghost will steal it back. 👻 

I love the simplicity of this game, as well as it's precise physicality and fun gameplay.

Buy at: Oink Games • Amazon

From Rion: All the open-ended building magic of classic Magna-Tiles, shrunk down for adventures beyond home. This 55-piece travel set tucks into a sturdy metal tin that doubles as a building base, making it easier for restaurant tables, airplane tray tables, and the backseat. Mini translucent squares, rectangles, and three types of triangles click together with the same satisfying magnetism as their full-sized versions, letting young engineers construct on the go.

Buy at: Magnatiles • Amazon

NEW FOR 2025 ⬆️ From Rion: Write down as many words as you can in 45 seconds, but watch out, because Alphabuzzle is like if Fluxx met Scattergories: the rules and letters keep changing so no two rounds play the same. I'm not sure this game is on anyone's radar, but it's quick to learn, endlessly replayable, and adaptable for different ages and skill levels, so it's definitely on my list.

Buy at: Bookshop.org • Amazon

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