“Flush with cash” might need to turn into “flush that cash” if fake money keeps popping up! Counterfeit cash used to be a problem for mostly shops and retailers, but there’s been a recent rise in fake cash popping up in the home! That doesn’t mean that more of your neighborhood pals have decided to print their own money, or that fake bills are appearing out of thin air, but enough of it is in circulation that everyday people are going to make a purchase or deposit money with counterfeit cash, very possibly by accident.
In 2024, there were 99,000 fake notes in circulation. Last year, that doubled to 200,000, partly because of a rise in organized crime. While the fake bills make their way between hands and households and businesses, people become increasingly reliant on electronic methods of payment (like cards and Venmo), so they fall a bit out of practice of knowing what physical, paper money looks and feels like.
Unfortunately, it’s not always the people making counterfeit bills that are punished. Shops and retailers are hurting, and customers go into banks and post offices to deposit money that can’t be accepted because it ends up being fake.
Shhh! We're going inside Amazon's super-secret chip design lab! But not the kind where they invent new potato chips. Amazon gave the BBC a rare look inside Annapurna Labs, where engineers design custom computer chips that power artificial intelligence.
Their teams oversee the entire process, from testing newly built silicon chips to making sure they're ready to be installed in massive data centers. These chips are the brains behind AI tools that millions of people use every day — from chatbots and translation apps to online shopping recommendations and voice assistants. Each chip can perform more than 1,000 trillion calculations every second. If you solved just one calculation every second without ever stopping, it would take about 80 million years to do the same amount of work!
There are companies that specialize in making chips, but Amazon designs its own to help make AI systems faster, more energy-efficient, and less expensive to operate. As AI becomes more powerful and more common, Amazon is competing with companies like Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia to build the chips that will power the next generation of AI.
In Preparing Flowers for Chinese New Year, a farm in Kunming, China’s Spring City, prepares flowers for the busy Chinese New Year season. Flowers travel from farm to auction, where buyers purchase them for shops. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Chinese New Year: The Biggest Celebration on Earth, a documentary series detailing the world's largest annual human migration (Chunyun), where over 1.5 billion people celebrate the Lunar New Year.
For the winter season, we've pulled together some of our favorite Bluey printables just for you and yours! And we've got you covered all the way through the winter holidays. We picked out some great shopping- and dining-themed activities to kick off the season plus Santa letters for later on. Here's some of what's included:
- Shopkeeper: First customer to the finish with all their bits 'n' bobs is the winner!
- Restaurant: Everything you need to recreate a fancy meal out!
- My Christmas: Tell Bluey and Bingo how your family celebrates
Want more? We have tons on the site. Just search "Bluey"!
Two is shopping for dancing shoes. Let's meet a magical new friend. Two Times Table likes things that come in twos! Color to make pairs. When you count up in pairs, use the Two Times Table!
1 x 2 = 2
2 x 2 = 4
2 x 3 = 6
2 x 4 = 8
2 x 6 = 10
2 x 6 = 12
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Ever dreamed of having your very own toy shop? YOU HAVE? Excellent. Start by giving it a name (use your fave color and age). Next, do a stock check. Look at the toy patterns below and circle what comes next. Finally, stack the shelves! Draw some brand-new toys in the spaces. How about some unicorns? Or cool cars? Or furry monsters? Don't forget to draw your own favorite toy on one of the shelves. And add some customers!
It’s a giant dream house ON WHEELS! Aaaaand... what else? You decide! What’s in each room of the dream house? These were Bluey and Bingo’s ideas: 11 burger shops, 20 bedrooms, 40 toilets, and a spa on the balcony.
Inspired by Season 2 Episode 21 "Escape": The kids are going to Nana’s so Mum and Dad can get alone time. They plan a blissful day, but Bluey and Bingo think of imaginative ways to ruin it — Mum and Dad will have to escape!
Right, chooks, let’s play shops! First customer to the finish with all their bits & bobs, wins. Here's how to play:
- With a friend (or two), decide who will be the shopkeeper and customers.
- Ask a grown-up to snip everything out. The bits and bobs go to the shopkeeper, then share the dollarbucks between the customers.
- Customers take turns to roll a die and move around the board. If you land on something you like, buy it... but if you don’t have enough money, you gotta put something back!
Quick! Color in the trolley dash before Bluey catches Dad and Bingo.
Inspired by Season 1, Episode 45 "Kids": A quick trip to the shops proves tricky for Dad, when Bingo and Bluey want to play a game of Kids. Now Bluey is Mum, Bingo’s her baby and Dad is a very naughty boy!
Crumbled steak! Mum's left the shopping list at home! Have a long look at her list, then fold it back and see how much you remember:
- What color balloon did Mum want? Red or green
- How many avocados did Mum need? 6 or 2
- Do you remember what sport equipment? Cricket bat or hockey stick.
Turn the shopping list back over and count up how many you got right. How did you do?
A clothing line launches for disabled adults and people who need adjustments to their clothes. Magnetic zips, easier loops, and pants with zippers are just some of the adaptations of the clothes that focus on providing dignity and modesty for the consumers who wear them. This video is excerpted from BBC News.
In Challenging Preconceptions of Iran, host Joanna Lumley visits a shopping mall in Tehran. As she explores the mall, her guide explains how the use of social media by young people in Iran is helping to connect individuals and shift some attitudes about life in the country. Through this experience, Joanna gains a deeper understanding of the evolving social landscape of Iran, highlighting how modern technology and cultural traditions intersect in the lives of its people. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure, a documentary series uncovering the rich history and cultural treasures of the Silk Road.
“Flush with cash” might need to turn into “flush that cash” if fake money keeps popping up! Counterfeit cash used to be a problem for mostly shops and retailers, but there’s been a recent rise in fake cash popping up in the home! That doesn’t mean that more of your neighborhood pals have decided to print their own money, or that fake bills are appearing out of thin air, but enough of it is in circulation that everyday people are going to make a purchase or deposit money with counterfeit cash, very possibly by accident.
In 2024, there were 99,000 fake notes in circulation. Last year, that doubled to 200,000, partly because of a rise in organized crime. While the fake bills make their way between hands and households and businesses, people become increasingly reliant on electronic methods of payment (like cards and Venmo), so they fall a bit out of practice of knowing what physical, paper money looks and feels like.
Unfortunately, it’s not always the people making counterfeit bills that are punished. Shops and retailers are hurting, and customers go into banks and post offices to deposit money that can’t be accepted because it ends up being fake.
Shhh! We're going inside Amazon's super-secret chip design lab! But not the kind where they invent new potato chips. Amazon gave the BBC a rare look inside Annapurna Labs, where engineers design custom computer chips that power artificial intelligence.
Their teams oversee the entire process, from testing newly built silicon chips to making sure they're ready to be installed in massive data centers. These chips are the brains behind AI tools that millions of people use every day — from chatbots and translation apps to online shopping recommendations and voice assistants. Each chip can perform more than 1,000 trillion calculations every second. If you solved just one calculation every second without ever stopping, it would take about 80 million years to do the same amount of work!
There are companies that specialize in making chips, but Amazon designs its own to help make AI systems faster, more energy-efficient, and less expensive to operate. As AI becomes more powerful and more common, Amazon is competing with companies like Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia to build the chips that will power the next generation of AI.
In Preparing Flowers for Chinese New Year, a farm in Kunming, China’s Spring City, prepares flowers for the busy Chinese New Year season. Flowers travel from farm to auction, where buyers purchase them for shops. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Chinese New Year: The Biggest Celebration on Earth, a documentary series detailing the world's largest annual human migration (Chunyun), where over 1.5 billion people celebrate the Lunar New Year.
For the winter season, we've pulled together some of our favorite Bluey printables just for you and yours! And we've got you covered all the way through the winter holidays. We picked out some great shopping- and dining-themed activities to kick off the season plus Santa letters for later on. Here's some of what's included:
- Shopkeeper: First customer to the finish with all their bits 'n' bobs is the winner!
- Restaurant: Everything you need to recreate a fancy meal out!
- My Christmas: Tell Bluey and Bingo how your family celebrates
Want more? We have tons on the site. Just search "Bluey"!
Two is shopping for dancing shoes. Let's meet a magical new friend. Two Times Table likes things that come in twos! Color to make pairs. When you count up in pairs, use the Two Times Table!
1 x 2 = 2
2 x 2 = 4
2 x 3 = 6
2 x 4 = 8
2 x 6 = 10
2 x 6 = 12
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Ever dreamed of having your very own toy shop? YOU HAVE? Excellent. Start by giving it a name (use your fave color and age). Next, do a stock check. Look at the toy patterns below and circle what comes next. Finally, stack the shelves! Draw some brand-new toys in the spaces. How about some unicorns? Or cool cars? Or furry monsters? Don't forget to draw your own favorite toy on one of the shelves. And add some customers!
It’s a giant dream house ON WHEELS! Aaaaand... what else? You decide! What’s in each room of the dream house? These were Bluey and Bingo’s ideas: 11 burger shops, 20 bedrooms, 40 toilets, and a spa on the balcony.
Inspired by Season 2 Episode 21 "Escape": The kids are going to Nana’s so Mum and Dad can get alone time. They plan a blissful day, but Bluey and Bingo think of imaginative ways to ruin it — Mum and Dad will have to escape!
Right, chooks, let’s play shops! First customer to the finish with all their bits & bobs, wins. Here's how to play:
- With a friend (or two), decide who will be the shopkeeper and customers.
- Ask a grown-up to snip everything out. The bits and bobs go to the shopkeeper, then share the dollarbucks between the customers.
- Customers take turns to roll a die and move around the board. If you land on something you like, buy it... but if you don’t have enough money, you gotta put something back!
Quick! Color in the trolley dash before Bluey catches Dad and Bingo.
Inspired by Season 1, Episode 45 "Kids": A quick trip to the shops proves tricky for Dad, when Bingo and Bluey want to play a game of Kids. Now Bluey is Mum, Bingo’s her baby and Dad is a very naughty boy!
Crumbled steak! Mum's left the shopping list at home! Have a long look at her list, then fold it back and see how much you remember:
- What color balloon did Mum want? Red or green
- How many avocados did Mum need? 6 or 2
- Do you remember what sport equipment? Cricket bat or hockey stick.
Turn the shopping list back over and count up how many you got right. How did you do?
A clothing line launches for disabled adults and people who need adjustments to their clothes. Magnetic zips, easier loops, and pants with zippers are just some of the adaptations of the clothes that focus on providing dignity and modesty for the consumers who wear them. This video is excerpted from BBC News.
In Challenging Preconceptions of Iran, host Joanna Lumley visits a shopping mall in Tehran. As she explores the mall, her guide explains how the use of social media by young people in Iran is helping to connect individuals and shift some attitudes about life in the country. Through this experience, Joanna gains a deeper understanding of the evolving social landscape of Iran, highlighting how modern technology and cultural traditions intersect in the lives of its people. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure, a documentary series uncovering the rich history and cultural treasures of the Silk Road.