For the Week of August 9th, 2026

Curiosity-provoking links to get your students (and you) wondering!

1. A super-powered magnet pulls in everything nearby. Stick around for the vacuum cleaner around the two-minute mark.
2. Time-lapse cameras followed a desert monsoon season — walls of dust, rain, and lightning rolling across the horizon.
3. A wheelchair that moves in any direction, hands-free, lets its rider dance.
4. A group of typewriter fans discovered the percussive qualities of their machines and started performing on them live.
5. What if airports had circular runways? One engineer makes the case for why planes should land on a loop.