media
the full content database across all formats: books, video, photo, GIF, sound, how-to, and the people of science who embody each domain. one page for all media — books are not separate from the rest
content by domain
satoshi/body
video: Cosmic Kids Yoga (youtube — yoga poses as animal stories), How the Body Works (StoryBots series), human body for kids documentaries
photo: anatomy posters (child-friendly, real art not cartoon), muscle diagrams, X-ray images of hands and feet — "this is what is inside you"
sound: heartbeat recording (stethoscope to phone), breathing rhythms, bone crack sounds (safe context), muscle contraction sounds
how-to: morning stretch routine video, barefoot walking technique, tree climbing safety, swimming basics, balance exercises on natural surfaces
people: Hippocrates — "let food be thy medicine." the first person who said the body heals itself if given the right conditions. story: he watched sick people and noticed the ones who ate well recovered faster
satoshi/nature
video: Our Planet (Netflix — David Attenborough), Planet Earth series, Fungi: The Web of Life, The Hidden Life of Trees (documentary), time-lapse plant growth videos, Bali bird identification videos
photo: species identification cards — print photos of each cyber valley species with name and one key fact. laminated, carried on walks. build the deck as species are encountered
GIF: seed germination time-lapse, flower opening, mushroom growing, caterpillar → butterfly metamorphosis, mycelium spreading
sound: bird call library (Bali species — xeno-canto.org for recordings), rain forest ambience, bee buzz frequencies, frog chorus at night, wind through bamboo
how-to: how to identify trees by leaf shape, how to press leaves, how to start a compost pile, how to collect seeds, how to transplant seedlings, how to observe insects without disturbing
people: Charles Darwin — traveled the world on a ship, looked at animals so carefully he discovered how all life is connected. story: the finches on each island had different beaks because they ate different food. Jane Goodall — sat with chimpanzees for years until they trusted her. patience is the method. Wangari Maathai — planted 30 million trees in Kenya. one person, one action, repeated
satoshi/energy
video: How Solar Panels Work (Kurzgesagt), The Sun for Kids, What Is Energy? (SciShow Kids), Rube Goldberg machine compilations (energy transformation chains), biogas production videos
photo: solar panel close-up showing silicon cells, fire at different stages (match → candle → campfire → forest fire), cross-section of a battery, dam and turbine, photosynthesis diagram (real, not cartoon)
GIF: energy chain animations (sun → leaf → fruit → body → movement), water wheel spinning, steam rising, solar panel tracking the sun
sound: fire crackling, water falling, wind turbine hum, electrical buzz, thunder (energy release)
how-to: build a simple solar circuit (panel + LED), build a water wheel from bamboo, make a compost thermometer, trace the energy path from solar panel to light switch at elona, build a simple battery from lemons
people: Nikola Tesla — imagined electricity flowing everywhere, built the machines to make it happen. story: he could visualize entire machines in his mind before building them. Michael Faraday — a bookbinder's apprentice who discovered electromagnetic induction. story: he had no formal education but asked better questions than anyone in the room. Max Planck — discovered that energy comes in tiny packets (quanta). story: he was told physics was finished, nothing left to discover. he discovered quantum mechanics
satoshi/earth
video: How Volcanoes Form (National Geographic), Water Cycle for Kids, Plate Tectonics Explained, seasons from space (satellite view), erosion time-lapse
photo: volcanic soil cross-section, rock types at cyber valley (basalt, pumice, obsidian), satellite view of Bali showing volcanoes, moon phases sequence (one photo per night for 29 nights), canyon wall layers
GIF: plate tectonics animation, water cycle loop, erosion progression, volcano eruption sequence, earth rotation showing day/night
sound: earthquake rumble recording, volcano recordings (low frequency), rain on different surfaces (leaf, metal, stone, water), wind at different elevations, ocean waves
how-to: make a rain gauge from a bottle, build a sundial, collect and identify 10 types of rocks, trace a stream from source to where it joins a larger flow, make a terrain model from clay
people: Alexander von Humboldt — climbed every mountain he could find, measured everything, drew the first connections between climate, altitude, and life. the original systems thinker. Alfred Wegener — noticed that South America and Africa fit together like puzzle pieces. everyone laughed. he was right — continents move. story: sometimes the whole world is wrong and one person with good eyes is right
satoshi/numbers
video: Numberblocks (CBeebies — numbers as characters with mathematical relationships), Vi Hart youtube (math in nature — spirals, patterns), 3Blue1Brown (older kids, 6+ with parent — visual math)
photo: fibonacci spirals in real plants (pineapple, sunflower, pinecone — photographed at cyber valley), geometric shapes in nature (hexagonal honeycomb, triangular spider web sections, circular spider web), fractal fern close-up
GIF: counting animations, pattern completion sequences, geometric transformations (rotation, reflection)
sound: rhythmic patterns (clapping in 2, 3, 4, 5 — mathematical rhythm), frequency relationships (octave, fifth — music is math)
how-to: build a counting board from natural objects, make fibonacci spirals from seeds on paper, measure a tree's height using shadow ratio, build a balance scale from a stick and string
people: Srinivasa Ramanujan — a poor boy in India who saw patterns in numbers that nobody else could see. sent letters to the best mathematicians in England. they were shocked. story: genius is not taught — it sees what is already there. Leonhard Euler — solved the problem of walking across seven bridges and invented graph theory (the math that cybergraph uses). story: the most productive mathematician in history — blind in one eye, later both eyes, kept working
satoshi/math
video: Mathologer (youtube — visual proofs), Numberphile (youtube — math stories), Flatland animated film (geometry of dimensions)
photo: Escher tessellations, Islamic geometric patterns, fractal photographs in nature, the Mandelbrot set, architectural geometry
GIF: proof animations, geometric construction sequences, fractal zoom
how-to: build geometric shapes from bamboo sticks and string, create tessellations from cut paper, prove the Pythagorean theorem with physical squares, make a Mobius strip
people: Euclid — wrote the most successful textbook in history. his geometry held for 2000 years. story: when a student asked "what is the use of geometry?" Euclid gave him a coin and told him to leave — learning is not about use. Emmy Noether — discovered that every symmetry in physics corresponds to a conservation law. story: she was not allowed to teach because she was a woman. she taught anyway. Einstein called her a genius. Alan Turing — asked "can a machine think?" and invented the computer to find out. story: broke the Nazi code in WWII, saved millions of lives
satoshi/language
video: bilingual children's shows (en/id), Signing Time (sign language for babies), story time read-alouds in Russian (youtube), Indonesian folk tale animations
photo: alphabets comparison (Latin, Cyrillic, Balinese script), children's handwriting samples showing progression, species labels in three languages
sound: pronunciation guides for all three languages, children's songs in English/Bahasa/Russian, poetry recordings, bird name pronunciation (scientific Latin + common in all three languages)
how-to: make alphabet cards in three scripts, record the child telling a story (her own particle), create a personal picture dictionary, write observation journals
people: Noam Chomsky — discovered that all human languages share a deep structure. every child is born with the grammar machine already installed. story: language is not learned from scratch — it is activated. the child already knows how to learn language. Sequoyah — could not read or write, yet invented an entire writing system for the Cherokee language. alone. story: one person can give literacy to an entire nation
satoshi/making
video: Primitive Technology (youtube — building from nothing), How It's Made (factory processes), Bali bamboo building techniques, cooking from garden videos, blacksmithing basics
photo: tool progression (stone → bronze → iron → steel → composite), bamboo joinery techniques, fermentation stages, biochar process documentation, step-by-step cooking photo sequences
GIF: pottery wheel spinning, bamboo splitting technique, fire starting sequence, seed-to-plate time-lapse
sound: hammer on anvil, saw through wood, water boiling, fermentation bubbling, bamboo cracking
how-to: build a bamboo shelf, make soap from sapindus, start a fire with a bow drill, cook rice from harvest to plate, build a simple water filter, make rope from natural fiber, build a chicken coop door
people: Archimedes — "give me a lever long enough and I will move the earth." discovered buoyancy in the bathtub and ran naked through the streets shouting "Eureka!" story: the greatest discoveries happen during play, not during work. Ada Lovelace — wrote the first computer program a century before computers existed. daughter of a poet, she saw that machines could do more than calculate — they could create. story: imagination + engineering = everything
satoshi/cooperation
video: March of the Penguins (cooperation for survival), ant colony documentaries, wolf pack coordination, human cooperation examples (barn raising, community building)
photo: mycelium network photographs, ant bridges (ants linking bodies to form a bridge), bee waggle dance diagram, human chain rescue photos, cyber valley community building photos
GIF: murmuration (starling flocks), fish schooling, ant colony self-organization, slime mold solving mazes
sound: wolf howl (pack coordination), bee hive buzz (collective activity), choir singing (voices combining), drum circle (rhythm synchronization)
how-to: organize a group cooking project, design a garden together (each child has a role), build something requiring 2+ people, play cooperative games (not competitive), teach a younger child something you know
people: Elinor Ostrom — proved that communities can manage shared resources without government or privatization. won the Nobel Prize. story: everyone said "the tragedy of the commons is inevitable." she traveled the world and found thousands of communities that proved them wrong. Lynn Margulis — discovered that the cells in our body are ancient cooperations. mitochondria were once separate organisms. story: competition is not the engine of evolution. cooperation is
satoshi/mind
video: Inside Out (Pixar — emotions and memory), BrainPOP (brain science for kids), meditation guided videos for children, optical illusion compilations, growth mindset videos
photo: neuron under microscope (real image), brain scan images, optical illusions, "before and after" learning progression photos
GIF: neuron firing animation, optical illusions that shift, attention experiments (gorilla in basketball game)
sound: meditation bells, binaural focus tones, silence recordings (the sound of nothing), nature sounds for concentration
how-to: keep an observation journal, play the "noticing game" (what is different today?), practice 2-minute meditation, build a memory palace with familiar locations, practice "what do you think?" conversations
people: Maria Montessori — watched children so carefully she discovered that they teach themselves when the environment is right. story: she was the first female doctor in Italy. everyone thought children needed to be controlled. she proved they needed to be free. Karl Friston — discovered that the brain is a prediction machine. it does not passively receive — it actively predicts and corrects. story: every surprise is a lesson. the brain learns by being wrong
satoshi/emotions
video: Inside Out (Pixar — best emotional literacy film), Sesame Street emotion segments, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (emotional regulation strategies), guided breathing for kids
photo: emotion face cards (real children's faces, not cartoon — 7 emotions × diverse faces), color-emotion spectrum poster (prysm system), body sensation maps showing where emotions are felt physically
GIF: breathing animations (inhale/exhale rhythm), calm-down sequences, emotion wheel spinning
sound: calm-down music playlists, nature sounds for regulation, heartbeat slowing recording, laughing compilations (joy is contagious)
how-to: make emotion color cards, practice "name it to tame it" (say the emotion out loud), breathing exercises (smell the flower, blow the candle), create a calm-down corner with tools (squeeze ball, soft blanket, water bottle with glitter)
people: Paul Ekman — traveled the world photographing faces. discovered that all humans express the same basic emotions. story: a tribesman in Papua New Guinea who had never seen a photograph could read every emotion on every face. feelings are universal
satoshi/chemistry
video: NileRed (youtube — chemical reactions, visually stunning), chemistry experiments for kids compilations, How Fermentation Works, flame test videos (element colors in fire)
photo: crystal structures under microscope, periodic table poster (element photos, not just symbols), chemical reaction before/after photos, molecular model photographs
GIF: chemical reaction animations (combustion, oxidation, pH change), crystal growing time-lapse, pH color change sequence
sound: fizzing (baking soda + vinegar), boiling, sizzling (frying), bubbling (fermentation)
how-to: make pH indicator from butterfly pea flower, grow crystals from salt/sugar/alum, extract plant pigments for dye, make a lemon battery, observe rust formation over days, make biochar (supervised), soap from sapindus
people: Marie Curie — discovered two elements (polonium, radium) and was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. story: she carried radioactive samples in her pockets. she glowed in the dark (literally). her notebooks are still radioactive 100 years later. pure dedication to discovery. Dmitri Mendeleev — arranged all known elements into a table and predicted elements that had not been discovered yet. story: he saw the pattern that nobody else saw, and left gaps for elements that did not exist yet. they were all found later
satoshi/nutrition
video: food growing time-lapses, How Your Body Digests Food (StoryBots), cooking with kids videos, farm-to-table documentaries, soil food web documentaries
photo: nutrient-rich foods from cyber valley garden (real photos, not stock), compound microscopy (vitamin crystals, mineral structures), gut microbiome illustrations
how-to: make a smoothie tracking different species (count how many species in one glass), grow sprouts in a jar (see nutrition emerge), make fermented vegetables, create a weekly species diversity chart for meals
people: Weston A. Price — a dentist who traveled the world studying what indigenous people ate. discovered that traditional diets produced strong teeth, bones, and bodies. modern processed food destroyed them. story: the answer to health was in the kitchen of every grandmother. we just stopped cooking
satoshi/physics
video: Kurzgesagt (youtube — animated physics), Veritasium (youtube — physics experiments), SmarterEveryDay (slow motion physics), Mythbusters clips (physics through demolition), pendulum wave videos
photo: slow-motion photography (water drop, bullet through apple), lightning freeze-frame, rainbow physics diagram, Newton's cradle, Rube Goldberg machines
GIF: pendulum wave, wave interference patterns, magnetic field visualization (iron filings), gyroscope precession, double slit experiment animation
sound: tuning fork resonance, Doppler effect (ambulance siren), sound speed delay (clap in canyon, hear echo), frequency sweep (low to high Hz)
how-to: build a pendulum, build Newton's cradle from marbles and string, make a wave machine from tape and skewers, build a trebuchet from sticks, create a Rube Goldberg chain, measure gravity with a stopwatch and a bridge
people: Isaac Newton — saw an apple fall and asked "why down and not sideways?" invented physics to answer. story: he was a terrible student who spent his time alone thinking. when plague closed his university, he went home and discovered gravity, calculus, and the nature of light — all in 18 months. Richard Feynman — explained quantum physics to anyone who would listen, played bongo drums, painted, and picked locks for fun. story: "what I cannot create, I do not understand." the playful genius. Galileo Galilei — dropped balls from a tower to prove that heavy and light objects fall at the same speed. everyone said he was wrong. the balls proved he was right. story: experiment beats authority
satoshi/atoms
video: Kurzgesagt: What Is an Atom? (youtube), The Periodic Table Song (AsapSCIENCE), Powers of Ten (Eames — zoom from galaxy to atom), nuclear fusion explained for kids
photo: scanning tunneling microscope images (actual atoms visible), periodic table of real element samples, nuclear reactor interior, crystal lattice models, spectral line photographs
GIF: atomic orbital animations, nuclear fission/fusion diagrams, electron cloud probability, Bohr model vs quantum model
sound: geiger counter clicks (natural radiation at hot springs), particle accelerator recordings, spectral frequency conversions (element emission lines converted to audio)
how-to: build atomic models from clay balls and sticks, do flame tests with different salts, make a spectroscope from a CD and cardboard, test conductivity of different materials, magnetize a needle
people: Marie Curie (also in chemistry — she bridges both). Ernest Rutherford — fired particles at gold foil and discovered that atoms are mostly empty space with a tiny dense nucleus. story: "it was as if you fired a cannonball at tissue paper and it bounced back." Niels Bohr — imagined electrons orbiting the nucleus like planets orbiting the sun. wrong in detail, right in spirit. story: he kept a horseshoe over his door. when asked if he believed in luck, he said: "no, but I am told it works whether you believe in it or not"
satoshi/light
video: The Story of Light (documentary), Kurzgesagt: What Is Light?, slow-motion light experiments, prism rainbow videos, bioluminescence deep-sea footage, aurora borealis time-lapse
photo: electromagnetic spectrum poster, prism rainbow high-resolution, spectral lines of elements, solar panel cell close-up, bioluminescent organisms, microscopy with different light sources, lightning freeze-frame
GIF: wave-particle duality animation, prism dispersion, total internal reflection (fiber optics), photoelectric effect diagram, color mixing (additive vs subtractive)
sound: light-to-sound conversions (sonification of starlight spectra), laser hum, camera shutter (capturing light)
how-to: make a rainbow with a garden hose, build a pinhole camera from a box, build a spectroscope from a CD, split light through a water glass, make a sundial, UV bead experiments (beads change color in sunlight), build a periscope from mirrors
people: Albert Einstein — explained that light is both wave and particle. won the Nobel Prize not for relativity but for the photoelectric effect (how solar panels work). story: at 16 he imagined riding on a beam of light. that thought experiment led to everything. Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen, 965-1040) — invented the scientific method by studying light. built the first camera obscura. proved that vision works by light entering the eye, not beams leaving it. story: he pretended to be mad to escape a ruler, then did his best work under house arrest
satoshi/space
video: Cosmos (Carl Sagan original, Tyson reboot), Apollo 11 footage, ISS live feed, SpaceX rocket landing compilations, How Far Away Is It? (youtube — scale of universe), Kurzgesagt space videos
photo: Hubble deep field (every point of light is a galaxy), earth from space (overview effect), moon surface close-up, Mars surface (Curiosity rover), Saturn's rings, nebulae, astronaut spacewalk
GIF: earth rotation from space, ISS orbit track, solar system scale animation, stellar lifecycle animation, rocket launch sequence
sound: NASA mission audio (Apollo 11 landing), space ambience recordings (electromagnetic emissions converted to audio — Jupiter, Saturn, pulsars), rocket launch sound, ISS comm audio
how-to: build and launch a water rocket, build a simple telescope from lenses, track moon phases for a full cycle (29 nights), identify 5 constellations, track ISS passes with an app, build a scale model solar system in the garden (sun = basketball, earth = peppercorn at 26m)
people: Carl Sagan — "we are made of star stuff." told the story of the cosmos so beautifully that millions looked up. story: he sent a golden record into space with the sounds of earth — greetings in 55 languages, music, whale songs. a message in a bottle thrown into the cosmic ocean. Valentina Tereshkova — the first woman in space. a factory worker who parachuted as a hobby. story: you do not need to come from privilege to reach the stars. Wernher von Braun — built the rockets that went to the moon. complex legacy but the engineering is real. Yuri Gagarin — the first human in space. his first words: "I see Earth. It is beautiful." story: he was a carpenter's son from a small village
satoshi/computing
video: Code.org Hour of Code videos, Scratch tutorial series, How Computers Work (Code.org), The Imitation Game (Turing, for parents to retell), robot building videos for kids
photo: inside a computer (motherboard, CPU, RAM — real hardware), first computers (room-sized), microcontroller boards (micro:bit, Arduino), robot prototypes, punch cards (historical)
GIF: sorting algorithm visualizations, binary counting, CPU clock cycle animation, robot navigation
sound: modem dial-up sound (historical), keyboard typing, hard drive spin, robot servo motors
how-to: unplugged coding (give instructions to "human robot"), Scratch Jr first program, build a micro:bit sensor project, make a Caesar cipher wheel, count in binary on fingers, build a line-following robot, design an automated garden watering system
people: Alan Turing — asked "can a machine think?" and built the theory of computation to answer. broke the Nazi Enigma code. story: the most important computer scientist was punished for who he loved. the lesson: civilization sometimes destroys its own geniuses. protect them. Ada Lovelace — wrote the first computer program. daughter of Lord Byron the poet. story: poetry and engineering are the same skill — seeing patterns that others miss. Grace Hopper — found an actual bug (moth) stuck in a computer. coined the term "debugging." invented the compiler. story: "the most dangerous phrase in the language is 'we've always done it this way'"
cross-domain multimedia
time-lapse collection
essential for showing processes too slow for a child to observe directly:
| subject | duration | what it shows | domains |
|---|---|---|---|
| seed → plant → fruit | weeks compressed to minutes | full growth cycle | nature, energy, earth |
| compost pile decomposition | months compressed to minutes | matter transformation | chemistry, earth, energy |
| moon phases (29 nights) | one photo per night stitched | lunar orbit cycle | space, earth, numbers |
| shadow movement (one day) | one photo per hour stitched | earth rotation proof | earth, physics, light |
| cloud formation → rain | hours compressed to seconds | water cycle in action | earth, energy, physics |
| crystal growing | days compressed to seconds | molecular self-organization | atoms, chemistry |
| bamboo growth | weeks compressed to minutes | fastest growth in plant kingdom | nature, numbers |
| rust formation | weeks compressed to seconds | oxidation — chemistry in slow motion | chemistry, atoms |
cyber valley media to create
content Satoshi should actively request from caretakers:
| content | how | what it becomes |
|---|---|---|
| daily species photo | phone, one species per day | growing species identification deck |
| child's voice recordings | phone, naming discoveries | personal vocabulary tracking + future particles |
| time-lapse garden | fixed phone position, 1 photo/hour | growth visualization |
| moon phase photos | nightly, same framing | 29-night moon journal |
| experiment documentation | before/during/after photos | scientific method evidence |
| weather observations | daily photo of sky + temperature | data science foundation |
| cooking process videos | phone on stand during cooking | chemistry documentation |
| building projects | step-by-step photos | engineering documentation |
all media created at cyber valley becomes potential particles for the cybergraph — the child's content enters the shared knowledge graph when she is ready
books
for children (by age)
from birth (0+)
| title | author | age | domain | link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Press Here | Herve Tullet | 1+ | satoshi/link | google books |
| Yummy | Leslie Patricelli | 1+ | satoshi/nutrition | amazon |
| Hands Are Not for Hitting | Martine Agassi | 1+ | satoshi/emotions | amazon |
| My Body | DK First Reference | 1+ | satoshi/body | amazon |
| From Head to Toe | Eric Carle | 1+ | satoshi/body | google books |
| The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle | 1+ | satoshi/numbers, satoshi/language | google books |
| Eating the Alphabet | Lois Ehlert | 1+ | satoshi/nutrition | amazon |
| Baby Signs | Linda Acredolo, Susan Goodwyn | 0+ | satoshi/signing | amazon |
| My First Signs | Annie Kubler | 0+ | satoshi/signing | amazon |
from 2 years
| title | author | age | domain | link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Tiny Seed | Eric Carle | 2+ | satoshi/earth | google books |
| Oscar and the Bird | Geoff Waring | 2+ | satoshi/physics, satoshi/atoms | amazon |
| Beautiful Oops | Barney Saltzberg | 2+ | satoshi/mind | amazon |
| Swimmy | Leo Lionni | 2+ | satoshi/cooperation | google books |
| Botanicum | Katie Willis, Kathy Scott | 2+ | satoshi/nature | amazon |
| The Big Book of Bugs | Yuval Zommer | 2+ | satoshi/nature | amazon |
| In My Heart | Jo Witek | 2+ | satoshi/emotions | amazon |
| When Sophie Gets Angry | Molly Bang | 2+ | satoshi/emotions | amazon |
| Pattern Fish | Trudy Harris | 2+ | satoshi/numbers | amazon |
| Anno's Counting Book | Mitsumasa Anno | 2+ | satoshi/numbers | amazon |
| The Sun Is My Favorite Star | Frank Asch | 2+ | satoshi/energy | amazon |
| If You Give a Mouse a Cookie | Laura Numeroff | 2+ | satoshi/making, satoshi/link | google books |
| There's No Place Like Space | Tish Rabe | 2+ | satoshi/space | amazon |
from 3 years
| title | author | age | domain | link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Color Monster | Anna Llenas | 2+ | satoshi/emotions | amazon |
| Ada Twist Scientist | Andrea Beaty | 3+ | satoshi/mind, satoshi/chemistry | amazon |
| Rosie Revere Engineer | Andrea Beaty | 3+ | satoshi/making, satoshi/physics | amazon |
| Have You Filled a Bucket Today? | Carol McCloud | 3+ | satoshi/cooperation | amazon |
| Stone Soup | various (folk tale) | 3+ | satoshi/cooperation | amazon |
| The Lorax | Dr. Seuss | 3+ | satoshi/nature | google books |
| The Hidden Life of Trees | Peter Wohlleben | 3+ read-aloud | satoshi/nature | google books |
| Volcanoes! | National Geographic Kids | 3+ | satoshi/earth | amazon |
| Forces Make Things Move | Kimberly Bradley | 3+ | satoshi/physics | amazon |
| What Makes a Magnet? | Franklyn Branley | 3+ | satoshi/physics | amazon |
| Rainbows | Franklyn Branley | 3+ | satoshi/light | amazon |
| Basher Science: Chemistry | Simon Basher | 3+ | satoshi/atoms | amazon |
| Kitchen Science Lab for Kids | Liz Heinecke | 3+ | satoshi/chemistry | amazon |
| The Darkest Dark | Chris Hadfield | 3+ | satoshi/space | amazon |
from 4 years
| title | author | age | domain | link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Well: The Story of Water on Earth | Rochelle Strauss | 4+ | satoshi/earth | amazon |
| Energy Island | Allan Drummond | 4+ | satoshi/energy | amazon |
| On a Beam of Light | Jennifer Berne | 4+ | satoshi/energy, satoshi/light | amazon |
| Gravity | Jason Chin | 4+ | satoshi/physics | amazon |
| Hello Ruby | Linda Liukas | 4+ | satoshi/computing | amazon |
| See Inside Atoms and Molecules | Rosie Dickins (Usborne) | 4+ | satoshi/atoms | amazon |
from 5 years
| title | author | age | domain | link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Way Things Work | David Macaulay | 5+ | satoshi/physics, satoshi/link | amazon |
| The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | William Kamkwamba | 5+ | satoshi/energy | amazon |
| The Periodic Table: Elements with Style | Adrian Dingle | 5+ | satoshi/atoms | amazon |
| Blockhead: Life of Fibonacci | Joseph D'Agnese | 5+ | satoshi/math | amazon |
| Sir Cumference series | Cindy Neuschwander | 5+ | satoshi/math | amazon |
| Robotics! | Kathy Ceceri | 5+ | satoshi/computing | amazon |
| The Wild Robot | Peter Brown | 5+ | satoshi/computing | amazon |
| Hidden Figures (young readers) | Margot Lee Shetterly | 5+ | satoshi/space | amazon |
from 6-7 years
| title | author | age | domain | link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Number Devil | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | 6+ | satoshi/math | amazon |
| Stuff Matters | Mark Miodownik | 6+ read-aloud | satoshi/atoms | amazon |
| Secret Coders | Gene Luen Yang | 6+ | satoshi/computing | amazon |
| Lauren Ipsum | Carlos Bueno | 6+ | satoshi/computing | amazon |
| Flatland | Edwin Abbott | 7+ read-aloud | satoshi/math | project gutenberg |
| Cosmos | Carl Sagan | 7+ read-aloud | satoshi/space | amazon |
for parents
| title | author | topic | link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunt Gather Parent | Michaeleen Doucleff | indigenous competence-based parenting | amazon |
| Free to Learn | Peter Gray | play as the engine of learning | amazon |
| The Gardener and the Carpenter | Alison Gopnik | parents create conditions, not products | amazon |
| Montessori from the Start | Paula Polk Lillard | prepared environment philosophy | amazon |
| Einstein Never Used Flashcards | Kathy Hirsh-Pasek | play-based learning science | amazon |
| The Danish Way of Parenting | Jessica Joelle Alexander | trust and freedom | amazon |
| Free-Range Kids | Lenore Skenazy | letting kids be independent | amazon |
| Simplicity Parenting | Kim John Payne | reducing noise and clutter | amazon |
| The Self-Driven Child | William Stixrud | autonomy and motivation | amazon |
| Mindset | Carol Dweck | growth vs fixed mindset | amazon |
| Range | David Epstein | breadth vs specialization | amazon |
| Nurture Shock | Po Bronson | counterintuitive parenting research | amazon |
| The Whole-Brain Child | Daniel Siegel | brain development and integration | amazon |
| Cribsheet | Emily Oster | data-driven parenting decisions | amazon |
| Brain Rules for Baby | John Medina | neuroscience of early development | amazon |
linked domains
every domain above. this page is the unified media index
subgraphs
species — species photo database. cyber valley — the location where most media is created. cybergraph — where media becomes particles. prysm — the visual design system. cyber/crystal — the crystal vocabulary defines what content teaches toward
see satoshi/domains for the full domain set