✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • June 19, 2025

VIDEOS & NEWS TODAY •  July 3, 2025

Daily knowledge and wonder. Share it with a kid.

Editor’s Note: Greetings, all! I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Michael Cosentino, and I’ll be curating daily news stories that I hope will pique your wonder and curiosity, just like TKSST’s video selections have since 2011. All links are vetted and sourced from reputable publications, ready for discussing with your kids, students, and friends. Got a tip or feedback? Drop me a line.

How does Kermit the Frog ride a bicycle or sit on a park bench when his puppeteer, Jim Henson, is nowhere to be seen? How did Emmet Otter row his boat? How did Fozzie Bear drive a real car? On The Muppet Show, under controlled indoor settings, it was easy…

🪐🧬🧠 Today We Learned

🔥 New study projects that some wildfires might actually help slow global warming | University of Washington

📚 To help low-income students become "solvers”, this Nigerian school charges only 6¢ a day | Christian Science Monitor

🚀 NASA's Mars missions may need explorers who thrive in isolation, not just pilots and engineers | The Atlantic

👩🏻‍🚀 Watch this: The Nat Geo documentary “SALLY,” about the first US woman in space, is now streaming | Space.com

🥤 What would happen if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw? Nothing good! | XKCD

🇨🇦 Mysterious runes deep in the Canadian wilderness are baffling archaeologists | Popular Science

🦕 Meet Bolg (aka The Hobbit’s Goblin Prince): Utah's raccoon-sized armored lizard that raided dinosaur nests 76 million years ago | Interesting Engineering

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