Ideas Worth Exploring

My favorite dinosaur is the chicken. What’s yours? Today we’re going to be talking about two of the most cutthroat paleontologists to ever live, and how fossils can tell us that the chicken is related to the T Rex. 

How does NASA organize a party? They planet. Today we’re talking about the solar system! You’ll learn about a planet that was almost named George, two planets that literally rain diamonds, and the answer to the most controversial issue of 2006: why isn’t Pluto a planet any more? 

Does compasses in the southern hemisphere point south? Why does a magnet stick to your refrigerator but not to your doorknob? How are magnets related to socks? Learn all the things you didn't know you wanted to know about magnetism in today's episode! 

Every child asks it at some point: where does lightning come from? The answer may shock you! Learn about the prankster Benjamin Franklin and his exploits with electricity! 

If you took all the DNA from your body and stretched it out in a line, it would be twice the diameter of the solar system! Learn all about DNA and what makes it is the key to inheritance, and also a little bit of how animal cloning works. 

What’s a chemistry? Today we’re talking about atoms! (Don’t trust them, they make up everything!) and uncovering the mystery of why the table is periodic. 

You're stuck floating in space, ten feet from your spaceship, with no way to move, except... a sack full of gumballs. What do you do?