Podcast Episodes

What’s a seal? What’s a sea lion?

Episode 260

What’s the difference between seals and sea lions? Do seals bark? Are they gray? Do harbor seals live in snowy regions? Why do sea lions eat fish? Why do sea lions fight each other? Seals an…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Do atoms never touch?

Episode 259

What are atoms made of? Why is everything made of atoms? Why are atoms so small? How many atoms are there in the world? How did scientists find atoms if we can’t see them? How do atoms get t…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

How are records made?

Episode 258

How are records made? How does a record player make sound? Why are we still listening to and buying records when there are so many digital ways to listen to music?! But Why visits Gold Rush …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Who invented tacos?

Episode 257

Do you love tacos? Then you’re not alone! Tacos originated in Mexico but they’re popular worldwide and they are ever evolving. Kids have a lot of questions about this favorite food so we vis…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

What are taxes and tariffs?

Episode 256

No matter how old you are, you’re part of the economy, but it can be tricky to understand what the economy actually is. Plus, what are taxes? What’s inflation? What are tariffs and why have …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Are tapeworms sticky?

Episode 255

Fleas, lice, tapeworms and ticks - these are all examples of parasites, living organisms that live on or in a host species and need this other organism to complete their complex life cycles.…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Why do trains run on tracks?

Episode 254

How do trains work? We went to Union Station in Washington, DC to answer a whole wagonload of questions with Amtrak's Patrick Kidd.

A few years ago, we left our studio in Vermont to hop on th…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

How do you whistle?

Episode 253

How do people whistle? How does whistling make a sound? Why does your tongue change a whistle higher or lower? Can you get a trophy for whistling? Can people with laryngitis whistle? Get rea…

Published on 7 months ago

Are wild cats afraid of water?

Episode 252

Are all cats afraid of water? Do wild cats bury their poop? How are the cats that live in your house related to lions and tigers roaming in the wild? We take a walk in the woods with wildlif…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

What would your superpower be?

Episode 251

If you could be a superhero, what would you want your superpower to be–and what would you call yourself? That’s what we asked kids for this special end-of-year episode, and we got some amazi…

Published on 8 months ago