From the cosmos to cosplay and pizza to our very planet itself, it's time to feed your feed with the most curious and compelling stories being told. This is Great Big Story.
When a rocket lands in your backyard, you get in. Great Big Story, launching October 20 on Facebook, November 3 on YouTube. Great Big Story is video network dedicated to the untold, overlooked & flat-out amazing. Humans are capable of incredible things & we're here to tell their stories.
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Ever since he could remember, 10-year-old Pecos Tatum wanted to be a professional rodeo cowboy. Coming from a long line of cowboys, Pecos has it in his blood. But talent alone isn't enough. This is a three-part Great Big Short Film about what it takes to rope and ride like a champion.
As far as he can remember, 10-year-old Pecos Tatum wanted to be a cowboy. His parents, who come from a long line of rodeo cowboys and cowgirls, are guiding him every step of the way. But it's a way...
In the second installment of our three-part Great Big Short Film, "Pecos Tatum," our young hero grapples with the dangers of being a rodeo cowboy. Steers are liable to throw riders in the air, tram...
The odds of winning a rodeo are slim. In addition to competing against others, there are many variables outside of a cowboy's control. And if you fall short, it makes you want to work even harder. ...
As far as he can remember, 10-year-old Pecos Tatum wanted to be a cowboy. His parents, who come from a long line of rodeo cowboys and cowgirls, are guiding him every step of the way. But it's a way...
Conservationists at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica are getting help from the animals themselves in documenting the rainforest’s incredible variety of species. Park managers set up motion...
Although the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina is the largest in the state, they can’t feed everyone. Enter researchers Dr. Julie Simmons Ivy and Dr. Lauren Davis. They’re engineers who...
What if you could use weather patterns as a muse for art? Sculptor Nathalie Miebach has found a way to parse through troves of storm data to create massive swirling sculptures that are as beautiful...
Every two years or so for the past 50 years, our technology has gotten smarter, smaller and more powerful. This, in a nutshell, is Moore's Law. But this improvement isn't inevitable. Our devices ha...
What if you could write a formula so smart, that you could wade through millions of yearbook photos and find a pattern among all of the faces? Researchers at the University of California-Berkeley d...
Gary Hug turned his fascination with asteroids into more than just a hobby. He built an observatory behind his house, and courtesy of his homemade reflector telescope, the "amateur" asteroid tracke...
There’s a telescope deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert that takes pictures so massive that it requires a supercomputer as powerful as 16 million PCs to decipher the images. This is the Atacama Large Mi...
Tracking oceanic data is really hard. So why not turn surfboards into data-soaking sponges? That's the idea behind Smartfin. Its a surfboard fin that tracks temperature, location and other wave cha...
The New York Botanical Garden and other institutions have taken on a massive project — to accumulate online descriptions and illustrations of every known plant species. The World Flora Online proje...