The Children's Hour

This week on The Children’s Hour, we celebrate Pi Day with Einstein: the Nobel Prize winning scientist joins us "immm-person" in our studio. It's his birthday on March 14!

This episode of The Children's Hour was recorded live at Outpost Performance Space in Albuquerque. On the show, we met kids who have mastered the Rubik’s Cube and learn their secrets. Sisters Julia and Lilliana are teaching other kids how to solve the Cube in under 30 seconds. Plus we feature three talented young performers: Chloe Nixon, Julia Megofna & Rowan McJimsey as our musical guests.

This week on The Children’s Hour we’ll explore resilience and adaptation in the face of climate change with the folks from Climate Advocates Voces Unidas, CAVU. Humans and other animals have remarkable adaptations to change, and are demonstrating resilience. How do we teach that to kids? Plus we’ll hear from child prodigy Kayden Kelly about young musicians whose talents far exceed expectations.

This week on The Children’s Hour, we’ll poke around brain science with neuroscientists from The Mind Research Network at the University of New Mexico. Find out how our brains work, develop and are studied. Plus the kids review the new Sonic The Hedgehog movie, and we have a history lesson about Harriet Tubman.

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Morning Is ComingSting & Shaggy44/876 (Deluxe)A&M/Interscope Records; 2018 A&M Records

I Sit and Think (Bilbo's Song)Daniel the BraveForest Frolic2010 Daniel the Brave

Think About Your TroublesAsylum Street SpankersMommy Says No!2007 Yellow Dog Records

Everything's Controlled By the Brain (feat. Liz Phair)Doc DauerThe Body Rocks2010 Marc 'Doc' Dauer under exclusive license to Rounder Records. Manufactured and distributed by Concord Music Group Inc.

Where You Think a ThoughtTom ChapinThe Incredible Flexible You2013 Sundance Music, Inc. & Kazzoom Music, Inc.

Mind on MnemonicJohn SimmonsSingleSimmons

There's a Band in My HeadDog On FleasInvisible Friends2012 Dog On Fleas

Let's Go to the MoviesOzomatli & OzokidzOzomatli Presents Ozokidz2012 Hornblow Recordings

Freedom TrainToots & The Maytals20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Toots & The MaytalsThis Compilation 2001 The Island Def Jam Music Group

If I Only Had a BrainPaul SanchezFunky Kidz2008 ASAP Productions Inc.

This week on The Children's Hour, we explore architecture with the legendary New Mexican architect and University of New Mexico professor emerita Edie Cherry in a live broadcast from the Special Collections branch library. With musical guests, the Squash Blossom Boys, and featuring The Children's Hour Kids Crew, and librarians. Learn a lot more about New Mexican architecture inside Dr. Cherry's New Mexico Architecture Guide.

This week on The Children's Hour, meet kids who are pollinator protectors with Wild Friends of New Mexico. These students from the Albuquerque Sign Language Academy successfully lobbied the state legislature for a license plate, in order to raise funds to build pollinator friendly medians and roadways. We also find out more about their school, where classes are taught in sign language. And we meet Cecil Williams, a photographer who helped capture Civil Rights History with his lens.

This week on The Children’s Hour, how do you play? We sent kid reporters knee-deep into a living video game to find out what that’s like, and we meet toy and history maker, Dr. Lisa, who’s creating multicultural dolls to represent kids of all shapes and colors.  The Fresh Dolls help kids see themselves in their toys. Play along with us! We've got great music and so much more!

Kids love to dance, and it turns out dance loves kids of all ages. The social, psychological, academic and health benefits of dancing are enormous. We explore the history, styles and benefits of dance, with historians and instructors from Keshet Arts. Featuring Felix y Los Gatos!

The Keshet Arts mural “Momentous Momentum Moments” by Mick Burson

What is a mentor, and how does having a mentor make a difference in a kid’s life? Learn what mentors do with the time they spend with kids. Big Brothers Big Sisters bring mentors and kids to our studio for a conversation with the Kids Crew. Plus, we learn why kids think Albuquerque is cool. With great music, jokes, a Bill Harley story, and so much more.

What is Anthropology, and how does understanding human evolutionary history help us understand people today? The Children’s Hour celebrates a year on the road exploring what makes us human at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. We learn about human evolutionary history, and how we're related to our ancient ape ancestors.