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Three free Deep Dives
for their Yoto.
Each Deep Dive is about 25 minutes of nonfiction, split into short chapters and checked against its sources. Pick three and keep them.
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Where colors come from
Rocks, a bug, a snail, a cave and the first box of crayons: where our colors came from.
Your teeth, from first tooth to last wobble
Why baby teeth wobble, what is growing underneath, and how to keep the new ones strong.
Where pizza comes from
Wheat, tomatoes, milk and a very hot oven: how every part of a pizza gets to the plate.
Where your trash goes
Follow a bag of trash from the curb through trucks, sorting machines and the landfill.
Sea otters: the animal that saved a forest
How a furry animal that eats sea urchins keeps a whole underwater forest alive.
A year inside a beehive
Follow one colony through a whole year of working, growing and making honey.
Sue: the story of one T. rex
Found by chance, dug up, fought over, sold and rebuilt: the biggest T. rex ever found.
The piano and how it makes music
Hammers, strings and a tuner's ear: what happens inside a piano when you press a key.
A river's trip from a stream to the sea
Down the Mississippi with one drop of water, past the towns and the boats, to the Gulf.
Caves: how water carves a mountain
How rain hollows out a mountain, what grows drip by drip, and who lives in the dark.
How cats moved in with people
From wildcat to sofa cat: mice, farms, Egypt, whiskers and the purr.
The robots on Mars
Five rovers and one helicopter, and why nobody can drive them with a joystick.
The volcano that grew in a cornfield
A farmer watched a volcano be born in his field in 1943. It grew for nine years.
The Olympics, from ancient Greece to today
From a footrace in ancient Greece to the torch, the rings and the athletes of today.
How we learned to forecast the weather
Red skies, barometers, balloons, radar and satellites: how a forecast got good.
The first subway: trains under the city
London, 1863: the first trains under a city, how they dug it, and the map that followed.
When the lights came on
Candles and gaslight, the first power station, and the path from it to the switch on your wall.
The navigators who crossed the Pacific by the stars
Stars, swells, birds and a double-hulled canoe: finding islands across the biggest ocean.
The bicycle makers who learned to fly
Gliders, a homemade wind tunnel and the control problem nobody else had solved.
The ship in the ice: Shackleton's Endurance
Trapped, crushed, camped on the ice, an open-boat voyage, and every man home.