Liam Mohajeri Norris, 18, builds with Lego, brick by brick and layer by layer. When he was 13, he founded a Lego Design Club for kids in his homeschooling community in Virginia. At age 15, he ran free weekly Lego workshops at the local Boys and Girls Club, using toy donations he solicited from the community. He also launched a YouTube channel, “Brixter,” where he posts video tutorials such as the “10 Bricks a Day” challenge. Every day for one year, Liam posted a new video demonstrating how to build something with only 10 Lego bricks. With quite a few more bricks—over 5,000—he built a “Spirit Lion” that’s roughly as tall as a golden retriever. It won the 2019 Best Sculpture prize at BrickFair Virginia, an annual Lego convention. When he’s not building MOCs, making video tutorials, or doing schoolwork, Liam teaches Lego engineering classes for kids, sharing his passion and skills with a new generation.
Liam’s Spirit Lion had dozens of tiny details, like smaller animals and people built into its body.
WHAT DO YOU ENJOY MOST ABOUT BUILDING WITH LEGO?
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Who's Your Cousin?
The great apes are among the most popular animals in most zoos. Their actions, facial expressions, and family life remind us so much of ourselves. Have you ever wondered, though, how we might look to them?
Is it possible to die of boredom?
To figure out if we can die of boredom, we first have to understand what boredom is. For help, we called James Danckert, a psychologist who studies boredom at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
THE PROBLEM WITH PALM OIL
Palm oil is all around you. It’s in sugary snacks like cookies and candy bars. It’s in lipstick and shampoo and pet food.
SERGE WICH
Serge Wich’s favorite days at work are spent out in the forest, studying orangutans in Sumatra and Borneo or chimpanzees in Tanzania.
ELODIE FREYMANN
When you’re feeling sick, it probably doesn’t occur to you to try eating tree bark.
Guardians of the Forest
EARLY, MAKESHIFT WILDLIFE DRONES HELPED TO DETECT AND PROTECT ORANGUTANS.
APE ANTICS
The Whirling World of primate play
Dr. Ape Will See You Now
HUMANS AREN’T THE ONLY PRIMATES THAT USE MEDICATION.
THE LEFT OVERS
A lot has happened for modern humans to get to this point. We lost most of our hair, learned how to make tools, established civilizations, sent a person to the Moon, and invented artificial intelligence. Whew! With all of these changes, our bodies have changed, too. It’s only taken us about six million years.
SO, WHAT IS A PRIMATE?
What do you have in common with the aye-aye, sifaka, siamang, and potto? If you said your collarbone, you re probably a primatologist—a person who studies primates. If you’re not, read on.