The US finally - openly - investigates UFOs, international burger day for earthlings (but maybe aliens too?!), dramarama online theatre workshops are all the rage and the quaint English take to croquet to battle out a word dispute.
May 26, 2021•24 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Hear how Taiwan lives through its worst drought in 56 years, plus we explain the US gas ransom hack, how Brits trade their stiff-upper-lip for hugs, how Australia's overrun by mice and the discovery of the many-butted marine worm we like to call the "cetibutt!"
May 19, 2021•22 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast A quarter of humanity celebrates Eid, COVID is making us kinder, biggest plane on path to rocket launch, Duke of Burgundy butterfly flutters back from brink of extinction and which is better for urban lawns? It's sheep versus lawnmowers. All that and more on this week's episode! Thanks to Eestends for the music: Travis Scott RODEO X Kanye Type Beat used in the Sheep V Lawnmower story.
May 12, 2021•22 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast Get ready - the cicadas are coming to the US! Also, bacteria fights microplastic, Girl Scout cookie meltdown, bookworms get crazy for book clubs, lamprey bloodsucker fish fights extinction in Australia. (This week's art is courtesy of Yule Liu!)
May 05, 2021•24 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast As India buckles under a COVID crisis, we hear from our kid correspondent who’s recovered from the virus, plus an episode full of distraction hacks from dancing, to Olympic "gaming" (yes, gaming), a civics lesson in US trials plus pet love in Central Asia
Apr 28, 2021•27 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Hear why Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict is important for America, how NASA makes space history with the first-ever flight on another planet, soccer's Super League skirmish and MIT researchers translate spider "talk." All that and more on this week's episode! And a huge thank you to Yule Liu for her delightful artwork rendition of NASA's Ingenuity. Courtroom sketch is Reuters/Jane Rosenberg.
Apr 21, 2021•21 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast Hear about the discovery of Egypt’s lost “golden city," Georgia’s debate over a new voting law, the French love for French-bread, Lego larceny (stop thief!) and the real (ish) Candy Land in California and more this week!
Apr 14, 2021•26 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast Hear about the cargo ship chaos, space center on-the-go, how The Mississippi River got clean, Nat’l Poetry Month and Cairo's march of the mummies
Apr 07, 2021•22 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Holi, Happy Easter and April Fools'! Hear about Spring celebrations, Spain's 4-day week, the cotoneaster pollution-eating plant, NASA's breath box on Mars and crazy Easter candy! Five unbelievable stories - four are totally true, but one will April Fool you!
Mar 31, 2021•22 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast The craze for pets during the pandemic takes effect! Find out which country is happiest, what people will do for free sushi and stunning Rubik’s Cube moves in India - all that and more in this week's Newsy Jacuzzi! And for more of what you heard... See the list of the UK's most popular pandemic pet names here: UK’s most popular lockdown pet names revealed - CBBC Newsround Check out the Rubik's cube moves here: 8-year-old from Bengaluru solves 3 Rubik’s Cubes using his hands and feet. Watch | Hin...
Mar 24, 2021•23 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Music Sweden | Free Listening on SoundCloud https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/playing-it-c...
Mar 17, 2021•24 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast 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!...
Mar 11, 2021•41 sec•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Mar 10, 2021•18 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast 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!
Mar 03, 2021•22 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast 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!
Feb 24, 2021•20 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Feb 17, 2021•22 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast 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!
Feb 10, 2021•18 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast 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!
Feb 03, 2021•22 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast Electric vehicles, driverless cars, solar motorbikes are here, plus warty pig cave drawing and wheelchair man climbs skyscraper!
Jan 27, 2021•20 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast India's cricket team makes sporting history, microplastics pollute the Arctic, Adidas fungi footwear and mealworms for dinner, anyone?
Jan 20, 2021•19 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ....
Jan 13, 2021•17 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast 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.uk/news/health-51665497 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/well/live/life-after-covid.html...
Jan 06, 2021•17 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast 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!
Dec 30, 2020•22 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast 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!
Dec 23, 2020•28 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast 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!
Dec 16, 2020•21 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Digital facial reconstruction of Saint Nicholas courtesy of Image Foundry.
Dec 09, 2020•24 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Dec 02, 2020•21 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast 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!
Nov 25, 2020•22 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Nov 18, 2020•21 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast 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!
Nov 11, 2020•22 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast