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The spatial information content of the honey bee waggle dance

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I was just talking with my wife about this super cool communication. I learned about it from the Magic School Bus show many years ago - to this day I still have all sorts of interesting science facts I can attribute directly to that show.

Is there anything of that quality and wholesomeness produced for kids today, or am I just going to have to show those old episodes to my kids when they're old enough?

Not that I’m aware of. I’ve searched a bit, but ultimately haven’t found much and MSB is one of the few shows I let my kids watch. They love it as much as I did. I still enjoy it quite a bit in my 30s, it’s quality television.

My kids love it. And it's been translated into Dutch (on the Dutch Netflix), so it's one of those shows I can use to expose them to Dutch.

For French speaking families (or Americans that want to expose their kids to French) there is an amazing show, called "C'est pas sorcier". They've produced 559 episiodes of 25 minutes since 1994. Each episode having 50% "on location" and 50% "in the class". And through jokes and play they manage to make something that is fun and (relatively) demanding, and that both my kids (5 and 8) and even myself love.

I believe pretty much everything is available on YouTube

  https://www.youtube.com/user/cestpassorcierftv

EDIT: Reddit seems to think that the US equivalent is Bill Nye.

It did have a continuation that seems to have retained the quality: The Magic School Bus Rides Again¹.

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¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_School_Bus_Rides_Aga...

Several YouTubers have channels with similar goals in mind.

Not exactly the same but the production value and cartoon visuals makes the complicated information easier to understand.

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q

Crash Course World History https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 (check out all the Crash Course playlists, there's more than history)

SciShow https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow/videos

etc.

My kids alternate between episodes of the 90's Magic School Bus and the 2020 reboot, both on Netflix.

This article features very little images for something so visual (a dance).

I strongly recommend giving this video from Georgia Tech College of Computing a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFDGPgXtK-U

(Note: This is a video from many years ago and the explanation is not as accurate as it once was thought to be. However, this is still a great visual explanation of this "dance".)

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