✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • December 3, 2025

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From the editor: During this holiday season, I want to quickly talk about something that matters to us. TKSST has always been free because we believe everyone deserves access to quality educational content, but keeping it that way takes real work and real resources. If the videos, news, and discoveries we've shared in 2025 have sparked curiosity in your home or classroom, would you consider becoming a member? For as little as $3 a month, your support will help us keep curating content that respects kids' intelligence, inspires wonder, and stays free for families who need it. No pressure, but if you've gotten value from what we do, this is how you can help us keep doing it: thekidshouldseethis.com/members

You can also help support TKSST by shopping from our popular Gift Guide. I've included some links to more of our favorite books down below.

In today's science news: Why time moves slower on Mars 🔴, programmable plastics that break down safely 🧪, and rthe first 3D-printed cornea restores a patient's sight 👁️. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

Traditional Ecological Knowledge comes from centuries of Indigenous observation. California tribes now use controlled burns to prevent wildfires. The Yakama Nation is buying back farmland. Indigenous expertise is solving environmental problems Western science is finally recognizing.

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🔴 Due to the effects of relativity, on Mars time moves slightly faster than on Earth • Popular Science

🧪 Scientists at Rutgers designed programmable plastics that break down safely • SciTechDaily

🐜 Sick ant pupae emit chemical signals causing adults to kill them to protect their colony • Popular Science

👁️ In a first, a 3D-printed cornea restored sight to a legally blind patient • New Atlas

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🔥 POPULAR 🔥 From Rion: Cardboard has always been my personal favorite medium to create with. Beyond just cutting holes in a box, there's lots you can do with this flexible, easy-to-cut, abundant material. This wonderful how-to book, Cardboard Creations for Kids, shares a few dozen ideas for easily making your own toys, costumes, and more. Yes, please!

Buy at: Bookshop.org (support small businesses) • Amazon

NEW FOR 2025 ⬆️ From Rion: My family started playing Wordle and Connections together years ago, and was especially glad to hear that, like so many classrooms around the country, my kids were playing as teams as brain breaks at school. Now this NYT Games book features all-new puzzles in the style of their digital hits, but in print form, perfect for screen-free puzzle solving.

Buy at: Bookshop.org (support small businesses) • Amazon

NEW FOR 2025 ⬆️ From Rion: Originally published in Europe in 2023, this oversized art history book by French author Éva Bensard takes us on an architectural and artistic adventure through 13 of the world's most extraordinary museums. From the Smithsonian's 19 institutions to Beijing's Forbidden City-turned-Palace Museum, to Frida Kahlo's cobalt blue Casa Azul, illustrator Benjamin Chaud gives each museum four pages: first, the building gets the spotlight, then he sketches small vignettes of collection highlights, historic facts, and behind-the-scenes stories.

The Louvre, Guggenheim Bilbao, American Museum of Natural History, the Vatican Museums, Monaco's Oceanographic Museum... I love how this book captures the dynamic character of each museum. Ages 8+.

Buy at: Bookshop.org (support small businesses) • Amazon

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