Story Time
Short watercolor stories about how the world works and where it came from, for kids and the grown-ups they ask. Ms. Wave takes four siblings and Bitsy the bus on a field trip, sometimes inside something ordinary and sometimes far back in time, and every fact along the way is a true one.
Episodes
The Great Packet Trip
Why is the whale video stuck loading? Ride along as it's chopped into packets and sent through glass, copper, and air, and help find the crack that kept the internet out all night.
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Three Kingdoms and a Keyhole Tomb
Bitsy rewinds to around AD 300. Visit Korea's three kingdoms and the Seven-Branched Sword, cross the sea to the Yamato clan's rice villages, and see a giant keyhole tomb ringed with clay haniwa.
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The Fall of Rome
Rome splits in two, the Visigoths sack the city in 410 and the Vandals in 455, and Augustine writes that God's city lasts forever.
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India's Golden Age
Meet King Skandagupta, who held off the Huns, watch stars with Aryabhata, and find out where our ten digits came from.
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Augustine Sails to England
Pope Gregory sends Augustine and forty monks to Kent, and King Ethelbert meets them under the open sky.
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A Journey to Medina
See Mecca's caravans and markets, the Hijra of 622 that starts the Islamic calendar, and how far Islam had spread by 711.
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The Hammer at Tours
Charles Martel's Franks stand behind their shield wall all day at the Battle of Tours in 732.
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Charlemagne's School
Visit the eight-sided chapel at Aachen, watch a king practice his letters at night, and see where lowercase letters came from.
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Longships!
Viking longships, the raid on Lindisfarne in 793, and the farmers, traders, and explorers of the North.
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Voyagers of the Pacific
Sail a double canoe across the Pacific, find your way by stars, swells, and birds, and meet the moa of Aotearoa.
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A Walk Through Solomon's Temple
Ride Bitsy back to 957 BC and walk through Solomon's temple: the bronze altar and the great sea, the twin pillars Jachin and Boaz, the golden hall of lampstands, and the veil before the Most Holy Place.
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Sources
Each episode ends with the books, specifications, and pages its facts come from, and the Scripture it quotes. The pictures are drawn in code on an HTML canvas, the voices are ElevenLabs premade voices, and the music is played live by your browser.