For the Week of January 17th, 2027

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

1. Dinara Kasko uses several techniques to create these pieces of geometric art, which just happen to be cakes.
2. Check Benoît Leva's stop-motion animation, made with leaves!
3. Fans of The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland will be familiar with this hollow mask optical illusion. Why does our brain interpret the face as popping out when it’s really pushed in? Rachel goes on to make the illusion with her kids.
4. What if you make popsicles out of… polluted water 🤢.
5. To cleanse your palate, watch a seed grow into a plant over this 36-day time-lapse from Boxlapse.