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The Brit pubcaster has picked up mixed-media educational series Don’t Blame Me, Blame My Brain (10 x 11 minutes) from Screen Glue. This live-action/animated comedy (pictured) answers unusual questions like what happens if you never sleep, or could you catapult to the moon. Hosts Ken Cheng and Leila Navabi chat with experts and celebrities in every episode, and animated sequences explore the science behind the answers they discover. Aimed at seven to 11s, Don’t Blame Me, Blame My Brain premieres April 28. Kids First The Paris-based distributor has inked a number of new deals with Chin...
TVKIDS PBS International Sends Elinor Wonders Why Around the World Elinor Wonders Why. The series has been licensed to Knowledge Network (Canada), Discovery Latin America, YLE (Finland), Hop! (Israel), SVT (Sweden) and e-junior (UAS). Elinor Wonders Why is created by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson and produced in partnership with Pipeline Studios. It was developed as part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the PBS Ready To Learn Initiative with funding from the U.S. Department of Education and additional support from CPB. Elinor Wonders Why inspires kids to follow their cu...
Muons aren't spinning the way the best physics model predicts. Why not? It may be due to completely unknown subatomic particles popping into and out of existence in the quantum foam. This isn't some sort of sci-fi technobabble. This is from quite real experimental results, and may very well be the Universe telling us we don't yet understand everything about it. These extremely interesting and possibly game-changing results come from Fermilab, a high-energy particle accelerator laboratory in Illinois. They do a lot of different types of experiments there, and one is called Muon g-2 (literally,...