✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • December 12, 2025

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In today's science news: Roman soldiers' pet monkeys 🐒, microplastics in your bottled water 💧, and are killer whales and dolphins fishing buddies? 🐬. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

Turn eight paper squares into a rotating kaleidoscope toy with this 3-minute origami tutorial. Each piece follows identical folds—triangles, center points, heart shapes—then connects into an accordion that expands and collapses as you manipulate it.

Trilobites were ancient ocean arthropods that thrived for over 250 million years—longer than dinosaurs—by adapting, migrating, and evolving into thousands of distinct species across dramatically changing environments.

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🐒 Roman generals kept rhesus macaque monkeys as pets and gave them kittens and piglets as companion animals • Popular Science

💧 Latest research says bottled water contains concerning levels of microplastics, bacteria, and chemical contaminants • Science Alert

🔥 Also bad: Stanford research finds gas stoves expose people to dangerous nitrogen dioxide levels linked to asthma and lung cancer • Smithsonian Magazine

🦜 Parakeets use a gradual trust-building process before making friends with unfamiliar birds • Sci Tech Daily

🐬 Killer whales and dolphins may be working together to hunt salmon and share the catch • Scientific American

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Last minute gifting (12/03 - 12/25) – Original holiday pieces from small shops delivered on time or your money back • Shop Etsy

🔥POPULAR🔥 From Rion: I stumbled upon Explore at my local indie bookstore and after paging through it for less than a minute, it was in my arms to purchase. A collection of maps and diagrams that explain the world, Explore is a beautifully illustrated tome that hearkens back to my 80s-era encyclopedias. Packed with information, it's the kind of book I'd add to the back seat for my kids on a long roadtrip, but it should also be in school and public libraries.

"Follow the routes of animals as they embark on migrations and of seeds as they leave their parent plants. Discover maps to guide you around hidden spaces, like the inside of a beehive, and places as distant as the outer reaches of the solar system. Explore the depths of the ocean, a single cell, a car engine, the human brain, a medieval castle, and much more." 🤩

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🔥POPULAR🔥 From Rion: This Wild Ones wooden cornhole game from Manhattan Toys is so charming. Feed the hungry bear and lion with 8 patterned bean bags, sized at 3x3″ for small hands. Great for hand-eye coordination, turn-taking, and screen free fun inside or outside. The legs fold for easy storage, too.

Buy at: Amazon

🔥POPULAR🔥 Rion says: We’ve bought a few different geode kits over the years and had a lot of fun cracking them open. Plus, you never know what you’re going to get. It’s a great experience. And now it comes in larger sizes: National Geographic’s Jumbo Geodes kit.

If you want more geodes at a smaller size, they’ve got that, too. Smaller ones make an excellent birthday party activity and then the kids can take their geodes home. Sparkly science FTW.

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