Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast

Cutting an onion breaks open its cells and starts chemical reactions that produce an irritating vapor called syn-propanethial S-oxide. When that vapor reaches your eyes, your tear glands produce tears to help wash it away! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids l...

How does an electric bike know when to help you pedal? Learn how batteries, motors, and sensors work together to give riders an extra boost. Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the Curious Kids Club! SupportCuriousKids.com Your...

Sign up for the Curious Kids Club: SupportCuriousKids.com Can you actually make your own water? Today, we're diving into what water is made of, how dangerous it is to try making it from scratch, and where bottled water companies really get their water! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show...

Why are armpits so ticklish? Learn how touch signals travel to the brain, why it is difficult to tickle yourself, and what researchers still don’t know about our most ticklish spots. Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the Curi...

How does a huge airplane lift off and soar through the sky? In today's episode of Curious Kids Every Day, we explore the science of flight... from the engines that push to the wings that lift. Learn how airplanes take off, fly, and carry us across the clouds! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a sh...

In today's episode, we explore why cacti are so sharp and how those prickly spines help them survive in hot, dry deserts. Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the Curious Kids Club! SupportCuriousKids.com Your curious kids...

More Captain Curious Adventures: CuriousKidsEveryDay.com/CaptainCurious Did you know a single day on Mercury lasts longer than its whole year? In this episode, Captain Curious takes listeners on an unforgettable journey to the closest planet to the Sun! Along the way, we explore why the temperatures are so extreme, what the surface is like, and we celebrate two birthdays using a time machine....

A trip from Earth to Mars usually takes about six to nine months using an efficient route. This episode explains Mars launch windows and how NASA is preparing for future human missions! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the C...

Why can birds sit on power lines without getting shocked? Today, we learn how voltage differences and electric current explain why a bird can usually perch safely on the wire. Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the Curious Kid...

Time dilation causes clocks to measure slightly different amounts of elapsed time depending on motion and gravity. Today, we learn how this effect has been measured with atomic clocks and even has to be accounted for by GPS satellites! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to h...

Human blood is always red, even when veins look blue through the skin. Today we learn how light interacts with skin and blood to create the blue or greenish color we sometimes see. Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the Curiou...

Why do our muscles sometimes hurt after exercise? Today we learn how unfamiliar or intense activity can cause tiny amounts of damage in muscle tissue, leading to inflammation and soreness as the muscles recover. Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. S...

Why do we sneeze? Learn how sneezing is a reflex that helps clear irritants from your nose and airways. Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the Curious Kids Club! SupportCuriousKids.com Your curious kids get a shout out on thei...

More Captain Curious Adventures: CuriousKidsEveryDay.com/CaptainCurious What would happen if you tried to fly a rocket ship through the sun? In this space-packed episode, Captain Curious explores the incredible layers of the sun (from the blazing photosphere to the sizzling core). Along the way, listeners will help solve problems using items from the Curious Container and discover why you can't la...

Flowers get many of their colors from pigments in their petals, including carotenoids and anthocyanins. We learn how a plant’s genes help control which pigments it makes, while light (and sometimes environmental conditions!) affect the colors we see. Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I woul...

The horned dung beetle Onthophagus taurus can pull more than 1,100 times its own body weight! Today we learn how researchers measure relative strength and why tiny insects can be so strong for their size. Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Re...

Sign up for the Curious Kids Club: SupportCuriousKids.com In today's episode, we explore why some apples are green and some are red and why they taste differently! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the Curious Kids Club!...

Learn how road capacity, bottlenecks, and braking waves can turn cars into stop-and-go traffic. We also explain why some traffic jams seem to appear even when there is no crash or blocked road! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to jo...

In this episode, we learn that an animal's whiskers help sense touch, nearby objects, tiny air movements, and the space around their faces! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the Curious Kids Club! SupportCuriousKids.com...

In this episode, we learn about the biggest fish on Earth... THE WHALE SHARK! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the Curious Kids Club! SupportCuriousKids.com Your curious kids get a shout out on their birthdays! Ad-Free...

How does a car know when to deploy an airbag? Today we learn how crash sensors detect serious impacts and how an inflator fills a hidden airbag with gas in a fraction of a second! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the Curious...

Learn what a laser is and how its unusually organized light can form a narrow, concentrated beam! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the Curious Kids Club! SupportCuriousKids.com Your curious kids get a shout out on their birt...

Cats use a righting reflex to turn their bodies while falling so they can often land on their feet. Their inner-ear balance system and flexible spine help them figure out which way is down and move into position for landing. Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids...

Helicopters fly using spinning rotor blades that create lift by moving air downward. Today, we learn how pilots change the blades to climb, hover, move in different directions, and keep the helicopter pointed where they want it to go! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to ha...

Who is the fastest human, and how fast can a person actually run? This episode looks at Usain Bolt’s 100-meter world record and why a short sprint is so different from a marathon! Curious Kids Every Day is a daily, interactive podcast that respects your child’s intelligence and curiosity. I created this to be a show I would be happy to have my kids listen to. Seven Reasons to join the Curious...