In association with Burt’s Bees, Isabella Rossellini has made three educational shorts, the first on the behaviours of worker bees.

The second on the nympho queen bee.

And finally the lowly male drone who makes up only 1% of the colony.

If you’re already familiar Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno, then this won’t seem too odd; but if you’re not, well, welcome aboard to the bizarre and awesome world of Rossellini’s educational short film series.

Green Porno is a series of short films written and directed by Rossellini, where she reenacts the mating rituals of various animals and insects in a format that’s both visually entertaining, educational and often enough disturbing (example: whales).

Whilst the music is somewhat of a pretty over-dramatic Inception knock-off (which consequently detracts from the overall message), this video just released from NASA demonstrates the complex multitude of stages that their 890 kilograms Curiosity rover will have to go through in order to land on Mars surface in August. Even ignoring the at times jarring music, this shit looks to be one awesome (and nail-biting) feat of engineering.

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And here’s a brief clip from some interview with Marcia whatshername, but the real star here is a plucky audience member who knows just how to work the camera:

Awesome.

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Also, making Easter Island moai heads “walk”.

From an upcoming PBS programme America Revealed, this visualisation of just how that one pizza (and its ingredients) make it’s way to your doorstep.