Newsy Pooloozi - The News Pod for Kids

Water and solar powered planes, instruments made from ice, Afghan girls singing ban lifted, raccoon friend, lost walrus and the snail that severs its own head! All that and more on this week's dip in the whirlpool of news and information!   Some links of items covered on our show... The Dodo - Raccoon Brings Her Baby To Meet Her Human Best Friend | Facebook Minor Swing Django Reinhardt by Ice Musi...

Newsy Pooloozi is a weekly world news podcast for smart kids and curious adults - a splashy pool of news and information! Or as the New York Times put it, " a news variety show " for kids by kids - one of their "30 best" podcasts for kids , in fact. It's great family entertainment (and, shhhhh, it's educational too!). New podcasts out every Wednesday. Subscribe, rate and review!

How did International Women’s Day begin and where’s it going, Amazon shakes up shopping with cachier-free shops, oranges spark electricity and a “purr”fect rescue of four cats at sea in Thailand. All that and more in this week's episode!   The art for this week's episode is thanks once again to Edie Cizeika Bower. 

From bricks to clothes – clever plastic waste solutions, a slug dangles like a spider, a new Van Gogh painting surfaces, world's most expensive video and the snoring Imam - all that and more!

Stunning videos show Perseverance landing on Mars, an endangered ferret is cloned, flying cars ready for take-off, second-hand Stonehenge, rowing teacher triumph and foul fatberg clogs London sewer!  

What the Year of the Ox means and how it’s celebrated, winter storms grip US, Finnish artist makes humungous snowflake (out of snow?!), teenager gives away car and a 17,000-year-old conch is played - all that and more! This week's art is courtesy of Edie Cizeika Bower.

Tourism to the cosmos takes off, Spain’s sea-grass balls eat plastic, South Korea paints an island purple and New Zealand’s cactus smuggler is caught - all that and more in this week's Newsy Jacuzzi whirlpool!

How dogs went from predators to pets, app translates dog-talk, Flaming Lips bubble gig, wombat poo mystery solved, Prince Charles' terra carter plan and more! Special thanks this week to artist Edie Cizeika Bower for the fab cover art!

Electric vehicles, driverless cars, solar motorbikes are here, plus warty pig cave drawing and wheelchair man climbs skyscraper!

India's cricket team makes sporting history, microplastics pollute the Arctic, Adidas fungi footwear and mealworms for dinner, anyone?

This week hear how the storming of the US Capitol tests democracy, about the ancient café uncovered in Pompeii, how millions of chopsticks are reused and an Indian man's rice ATM.   SHOW NOTES:  Do check out the BEST KIDS PODCAST 2021 list we made it onto - thank you, Feedspot! Also, here is a link to the super cool Pompeii discovery and the chopstick recycler .   

Hello and happy new year! We are temporarily reporting from London for the next few weeks - yep, lockdown central. Help us usher in the new year by hitting subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and also joining the Newsy Jacuzzi Facebook community here .   Watch and hear NASA's space 'sounds' here . Plus for two really great articles on the vaccines and the virus check out: https://www.bbc.co....

Did you know there’s a new way to track dog years? Or how to make your cat smile? And what are your pets really thinking? How about the rat who saves lives, the mice that aren't mice, or coronavirus sniffing dogs? Have a listen to the best animal stories of the year!

It’s Christmas! Find out what that means for our reporters around the world. Plus, it’s that time of the year when we take stock of the last twelve months and as a special Xmas treat we give you our wackiest and weirdest Newsy Jacuzzi Oddball stories of 2020!

From 3D dinosaurs (in your living room!), Japan’s Norimaki synthesizer “taste pop,” the super squid bot, the revolutionary Hyperloop, H&M’s magic loom and the tech power of the… pencil!

Digital facial reconstruction of Saint Nicholas courtesy of Image Foundry. 

It’s beginning to look like… an alien left something in the Utah desert? Hear about the mysterious monolith, White House pets, big holiday for Sikhs, Oz girl’s kick-start and an Indian tale of perseverance.

Gratitude for COVID-19 vaccines, but what’s it really mean? Plus hear about the violin thank you, the virus survivor who got bit by a cobra, the super robot squid, Thanksgiving in America and the strange advice to eat more sugar!

Hear how future travel will swoosh thanks to Virgin’s Hyperloop, how brooms go “vroom” in Brazil, Japan’s monster wolf robot, India’s leopards and baseball’s first female general manager.

Festival season is underway in India – Happy Diwali! – while England’s bonfire night marks a big explosion that never happened. In science news clothing giant H&M turn old clothes into new yard and in Finland they prove dirty daycares are good for kids!

Hear reports across the US as voters show up in record numbers, about dirty cars creating clean energy, the city of angels becoming the city of champions and an odd animal election that’s barking mad!

Big thanks to some special contributions this week from fellow podcasters at the Kids Listen network: The Past and the Curious and Curious Kid Podcast.   https://www.kidslisten.org/ https://thepastandthecurious.com/ https://curiouskidpodcast.buzzsprout.com/  

Special thanks again to Amaira and Anaira Mirza for their joint work on this week's fabulous artwork!

Do lakes on Mars mean there’s Martian life? Also, find out why NASA sends an expensive titanium toilet to space, why India built the longest and highest highway tunnel in the world, who the Solely Sunshine girl is and how canines are sniffing out the coronavirus in Finland.