Mission CO2 to Mars: Engineering Design Challenge! | Tumble Episode
EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: ESS In this episode, our listener Ilan shares his brilliant plan to stop climate change in its tracks, and make Mars a place we can live. He wants to filter Earth's excess carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, and then ship our carbon dioxide to Mars to thicken its atmosphere. But will it work? What does it take to get a scientific idea off the ground? Fortunately, there's a road map to blasting off to Mars with a payload of CO2! It's called
What's Play Doh Made Of?
If you listened to my Mailbag episode, you probably came away knowing that play-doh has a lot of salt, but maybe not certain what the other ingredients are there for. In my exhaustive research, I found two versions of the Play-Doh recipe. The first is from the original patent, US 3,167,400, which lists the ingredients as follows: Grain Flour (hard winter wheat flour, first clears) Tap water Common Salt Borax Light hydrocrabon distillate such deodorized kerosene Another pat
We Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts! | Tumble Episode
50 percent of all Americans believe in ghosts or that the buildings can be haunted, which is equal to the number of people who believe that global warming is caused by human activity. - Dennis Waskul When we hear a scary sound outside our window, or notice something go bump in the night, we can’t help but wonder if it might actually be a ghost. We all know people who swear up and down that they’ve seen something, and it’s fun to tell scary stories about supernatural events.
Why Words?! How We Learn Language | Tumble Episode
"The best language learners are children, and that's really remarkable, because children come into the world without any knowledge of what a language should be like." - Evan Kidd It's common knowledge that kids have adults beat in one category (besides fitting into small spaces): Language. While adults have the advantage in most other subjects, kids are just naturally BETTER at learning languages. But why? And how? Come to think of it, how do we even learn our first language?
The Electric Detectives with Mike Legatt | Tumble Episode
In this episode, we delve into darkness to discover where electricity comes from - by learning what happens when it disappears. EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: PS The electric grid is a system of power plants, power lines, and power companies that all work together to bring electricity to your home - and any other place that needs electricity! There are THREE electric grids in the United States - one in the east, one in the west, and one in Texas. During the episode, we