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How do squirrels climb trees?
Episode 166
Squirrels are everywhere. Three hundred or so species of these often adorable rodents live on every continent except Antarctica. No matter w…
4 years, 4 months ago
Why is it a shot? Kids’ questions about COVID vaccines
Episode 165
The FDA recently gave emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for kids age 5 to 11. With all the news and conversation ab…
4 years, 4 months ago
How Do Apples Grow?
Episode 164
Why do apples have stems? Why do fruits start out as flowers? How did the first apple grow when no one was there to plant its seed? Why can …
4 years, 5 months ago
How Deep Is The Ocean?
Episode 163
We’re exploring a part of the world that not much is known about—in fact, you could be one of the people who help us understand and learn mo…
4 years, 5 months ago
Why Do Americans Use The Word ‘Soccer?’
Episode 162
Kala wants to know why we say soccer in the United States, when the rest of the world calls the game "football." In this episode we hear fro…
4 years, 6 months ago
Who Invented Money?
Episode 161
In this episode of But Why we visit a credit union to learn what money is all about. And Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski and Jordan Weissman fr…
4 years, 6 months ago
What If You’re Scared To Start School?
Episode 160
Five-year-old Odin in Wyoming is about to start school and he sent us this question: If I’m terrified about kindergarten do I have to go? Wh…
4 years, 7 months ago
Why Do We Wear Clothes?
Episode 159
Have you ever been threading one leg through a pair of pants in the morning and wondered…why do we wear pants anyway? Or wondered why pocket…
4 years, 7 months ago
What's the Cleverest Thing A Hippo Can Do?
Episode 158
What is the cleverest thing hippos can do? This week we’re answering seven quirky questions about animals! Why do elephants like peanuts? Wh…
4 years, 8 months ago
Why Are Fireworks Bright?
Episode 157
What are fireworks made of, why are they bright and loud, and how do people make them? And, why do Americans celebrate the 4th of July with …
4 years, 8 months ago