Have you ever wondered which month of the year is the most fun? Is it December with all its holiday magic and break from school? Or maybe it’s July, full of sunshine, pool parties, and fireworks. But then again, October has Halloween, and who doesn’t love dressing up and collecting candy? Each month seems to bring its own kind of awesome – from spring blooms to summer adventures, fall festivals, and winter snow days. In this episode, we’re breaking it all down: the laughs, the memories, and even the “meh” months (looking at you, February). I’ll share my personal favorites, and you can decide if I’m totally right… or totally wrong. Spoiler: there will be debates about pumpkin spice. Let’s dive in and figure out which month really wins the “fun crown!” 🎉

Can you solve global warming? Hunger? Disease? Can one person make a dent in the world’s big problems? And if you can’t solve a problem, should you try to or just give up? Is it worth working in a problem area if the solution would take multiple lifetimes to achieve?

Fireworks! How they are fun and exciting! Who invented them? Where? When? And how do they work?

Why do we love them? Of course they are lots of fun but is there a downside? Can we make them safer, more fun, less problematic for the environment?

In this episode we talk about all aspects of fireworks we we celebrate July 4th.

Happy 4th to everyone!

In this episode we talk about lying. We try to answer what is a lie, what is a big lie, what's a small or white lie. We also talk about what makes kids (or others) lie and what we can do to prevent that or deal with it. This is a short conversation about this topic. We may have to do another show on this as the discussion was quite interesting.

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What is snow? What is rain? How are they different? How is snow formed? What is fog? All of this and more is answered in this episode as we take a nice walk on a snowy field.

We also talk about how clouds form. Clouds are made from water vapor that cools down as it climbs higher. When the vapor cools it the water precipitates out of the air. The same thing happens on land when warmer moist air cools at night and then we get fog :)

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Traffic lights are pretty similar in most places, but not always everywhere. We talk about roads signs and driving conventions and standards. This is a good episode to learn how things could be different in places we haven't yet visited.

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Why do we throw up and what is puke? This episode is fun and we talk about something that is not pleasant for kids. But we learn that it's ok and you feel better after puking.

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In this episode we talk about how moisture in the air turns into frost in the morning as the temperature of air drops overnight. We also talk about the freezing point and melting point of water and other material. To melt ice and frost we can add a little bit of alcohol to the the ice. That lowers its freezing point and makes it melt. This is how the anti-frost spray works.

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The skin can feel different things like sharpness of things, or pain, or touch or itching. But the brain interprets what the skin is feeling. The nerves take the information about what the skin is feeling all the way to the brain. Then the brain uses that information to figure out if it’s pain or itching we are feeling.

Some materials like wool make us itch. It depends how sensitive we are to wool. Itching is very helpful for our bodies to deal with things it doesn’t like. We itch so our brain can tell our body to do something about it, like move our arms to scare a mosquito on our arm.

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In this episode we talk about how the skin feels coldness and hotness. We also talk about how the air outside is cold at night and warmer in the day and colder in winter and warmer in summer.

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