✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • September 8, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
September 8th, 2025

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From the editor: September 8 is International Literacy Day. It's an occasion to raise awareness about literacy challenges that exist both locally and globally. Today we're featuring a couple of videos that go beyond the reading of words to focus on media literacy, which is how we combat misinformation and propaganda that is abundant in what we consume today.

In today's science news: A 150-million-year-old murder mystery solved 🔎, sea-faring Neanderthals ⛵️, and how rodents conquered the world 🐀. Plus more headlines down below 👇

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A TED-Ed video explores the psychological factors that make people vulnerable to misinformation, including cognitive biases and the way our brains process information.

 

A CBC Kids News video breaks down what propaganda is and teaches young viewers how to identify its common techniques.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned over the weekend

🦕 Paleontologists solve a 150-million-year-old murder mystery of baby pterosaurs • Discover Wildlife

🐧 Icelandic volunteers rescue thousands of confused baby puffins annually • New Atlas

💧 Researchers discovered enough fresh water buried under the US’s northeast seafloor to supply NYC for 800 years • Phys.org

⛵️ Tools discovered on a Greek island suggest Neanderthals sailed seas 200,000 years ago • New Lines

💀 Rodents’ tiny little thumbnails may explain how they conquered the world • Phys.org

⏱️ A teen with a rare condition can mentally time-travel through detailed memories • Science Alert

🔬 California's hands-on science curriculum is showing mixed results after a decade • CalMatters

☄️ How many mass extinctions has Earth seen? • BGR

🌿 Nature-related words like "meadow," "bud," and "beak" have declined more than 60% since 1800 • Grist

💥 Astronomers think they've spotted a black hole that formed less than a second after the Big Bang • Futurism

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