✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • August 25, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
August 25th, 2025

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From the editor: Happy Monday! We've got two great videos to start the final week of August. First, watch how a remote Indian village became a sanctuary for migrating cranes 🕊️. Then, choose the right punctuation in a classic Electric Company short from 1973 ⁉️.

In today's science news: A high school football team turns out the lights to help birds 💡, how being too busy is bad for your brain 🧠, and why humans are evolutionary accidents 🤷. More headlines after today's videos 👇

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“Each year, locals of one tiny Indian village prepare a welcoming party for some very weary winged travellers. When the people of Khichan first started providing food for migrating Demoiselle cranes – just 15 visited – but now there are many, many more.

 

Three chairs, three punctuation marks, one big decision. In this 1973 sketch from The Electric Company, cast member Judy Graubart tries out chairs designed with different punctuation personalities: a period, a question mark, and an exclamation point.

 

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