Podcast Episodes

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 8 months, 1 week 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 8 months, 3 weeks 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 9 months, 1 week 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 9 months, 3 weeks 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 10 months 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 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Who decides what robots look like?

Episode 250

Who decides what robots look like? How do robots work and move? How are they controlled? And are robots alive? We tackle all your robot questions in this episode, and we’re taking a field tr…

Published on 11 months ago

Why can’t animals talk to us?

Episode 249

Why can’t animals talk to us? Are humans the only animals that can talk? Can different species of animals communicate with each other? We learn about animal communication with Arik Kershenba…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

How does food turn into poop?

Episode 248

Why do we have to poop? Why does fiber make you poop? Why is poop brown? Why does it smell so bad? Why do farts smell bad, too? Yup, we’re going there! In this episode, Mary Roach, author of…

Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago

Why do we have anxiety?

Episode 247

Why do we worry and how can we deal with it? Why do we get anxious? Where does anxiety come from? Anxiety or worry is a hard feeling to overcome, but it’s a universal human emotion. In this …

Published on 1 year ago