Kids' Questions Answered

This episode is great for elementary school students and families!

Dr. Danger and guest Angie Isaacs discuss how the internet works—how do we get all those videos we want to watch?

Listeners will learn how the Internet works now, how it used to run over phone lines, and why the Internet is so much faster now! (Hint: which travels faster, sound or light?)

But what about airplanes? How do people access the Internet from an airplane? And what about astronauts? Do they have the Internet in space?

Listen to the episode to find out! It’s about 11 minutes long.

Find Angie’s website here.

In today’s episode, picture book author Theresa Dabney tells Dr. Danger what happened in second grade that scarred her so much she wrote a book about it, and how that influenced her teaching. She talks about her book, The Kid Who Was Afraid of Words, illustrated by Summer Morrison, and how the main character uses a special strategy to conquer his fear of big words. We learn some amazing things about the human brain and reading!

Theresa’s book is available here: https://a.co/d/24s09K9

Visit Theresa’s YouTube channel, full of story read-alouds and songs: http://www.youtube.com/@readaloudstorytime14

You can find Theresa on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/theresadabneyauthor/

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This episode is great for preschoolers!

Dr. Danger explains what type of animals snakes are and how many types of snakes there are in the world. Super Eddie chimes in with a fact that is not factual! Dr. Danger has to consult another source…snakes are meat-eaters. See how many types of snake food you can name as you listen! You might get a few that we didn’t mention.

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Go fly a kite! Or battle a kite and try to cut someone else's down from the sky? That's what happens in the new picture book Kai Po Che: Mini's Perfect Kite, written by Suhasini Gupta and illustrated by Devika Oza. Dr. Danger spoke with Suhasini to learn about flying kites and kite battles, in which one kite flyer cuts the tail of another kite. Suhasini spoke about flying kites with her family in India on rooftops and taking a more relaxed approach to kite flying in the US. She shares instructions for making kites with kids and teaches Dr. Danger about the important contributions of kites to science!

Find instructions for making a kite here: https://www.thesusankam.com/books/crafts

Find Suhasini's book Kai Po Che on bookshop.org, Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

Suhasini is on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesusankam/

Dr. Danger wants to know, "what are tar pits?" Super Eddie gives his interpretation of tar pits, and then Dr. Danger asks Joyce Uglow, author of the new picture book STUCK! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits. Joyce tells us all about La Brea tar pits and the plants and animals that were stuck there and fossilized thousands of years ago. We talk about smilodon, the saber tooth cat! Dire wolves! Camels! Super Eddie tells Dr. Danger what he doesn't like about tar pits. 

Find Joyce and her book at the links below:

https://linktr.ee/jpuglow

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jpuglow/?hl=en 

Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/jpuglow.bsky.social 

Substack https://substack.com/@jpuglow

Super Eddie asked Dr. Danger if teeth are made of bone...it kind of makes sense, right? Dr. Danger asked a dentist, and she found out the answer. Dr. Danger and Super Eddie discuss how many teeth kids and grownups have, how many teeth sharks have, and different types of teeth. Dr. Danger and Super Eddie takes turns describing what teeth are made of (enamel, dentin, cementin, and pulp), with Super Eddie's own personal spin on things. 

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Super Eddie asks, "Can komodo dragons kill you?" Dr. Danger explains about how komodo dragons kill their prey, and drops some knowledge about monitor lizards, where they live, and what they eat. Dr. Danger tells Super Eddie about komodo dragon attacks on humans. 

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Super Eddie wants to know which animal has the longest tongue. Dr. Danger starts to list animals with the longest tongue relative to their body size, and she and Super Eddie discuss. Super Eddie shares some Transformers knowledge. Then they remember the biggest animal in the world, which also has the biggest tongue of all animals. They discuss blue whale tongues--how long? How much does it weigh? As much as an elephant?! They also talk about how not everything on the Internet is true. 

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What are skinks? Are they lizards? Do they live in caves?

Super Eddie and Dr. Danger discuss skinks' legs, necks, and habitats. Super Eddie describes how skinks use their bodies, and Dr. Danger describes where they can live. They discuss yoga poses and how to move like a snake. 

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Super Eddie wants to know, can alligators climb? And can they climb on the ceiling? Dr. Danger describes what alligators have been seen climbing--fences, trees, and even stairs! She explains why they don't climb on the ceiling, and Super Eddie talks about how it could be done. 

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