This time on The Children’s Hour, we explore the skin we are in. We are joined by Dr. Holly McGee and Dr. Nina Jablonski, who have written a book to explain the cultural and social history of skin color called It’s Just Skin, Silly. Then we meet Dr. Adnan Mir, a...
Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More Why do we spend so much of our lives sleeping? Is anything happening in our brains while we sleep? Do animals sleep the same way we do? On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we explore the...
Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More The Kids Crew and Katie Stone meet mycologist Peter McCoy to uncover the hidden world of fungi. Listeners learn how mushrooms recycle nutrients, clean pollution, and help plants grow. From underground...
Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More How does your brain control everything you do? The Kids Crew and Katie Stone talk with scientists Ingrid Lane and Nick Aase from the Mind Research Network to uncover the secrets of how our brains work....
Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More Lemurs are extraordinary primates found only in Madagascar, and they’re also some of the most endangered animals on Earth. On this episode of The Children’s Hour, the Kids Crew and Katie Stone talk with...
Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More In this episode of The Children’s Hour, we explore how scientists study tree rings to uncover the secrets of the past. The Kids Crew talks with Dr. Peter M. Brown, a dendrochronologist, about how trees...
Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More The Kids Crew discover the animals living right outside our doors. From prairie dogs, coyotes, and roadrunners in New Mexico to monkeys in Thailand, stray dogs in India, koalas in Australia, and...
Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More In this episode of The Children’s Hour, we lift into the skies to explore balloons. From the first hot air balloon flight in France to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the Kids Crew learns...
Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More In this episode of The Children’s Hour, we explore renewable energy with experts in solar, wind, geothermal, and hydro power. The Kids Crew ask big questions about how renewable energy works, why it’s...
