Curious Kids Every Day: A Daily Educational Podcast

A baby's lower esophageal sphincter is still learning to keep milk inside the stomach.

This segment explores how dogs produce their distinctive barking sound, focusing on the role of air and breathing in creating the bark.

Physics explains force, inertia, speed, and friction through doors, cars, balls, and everyday motion.

Josh answers Eloise's question about what people pay at restaurants and shops by comparing direct trade, like eggs for bananas, with money.

Josh answers five-year-old Veronica’s question about what different booger colors mean on Curious Kids Every Day.

Josh explains that bloody noses, medically called epistaxis, usually begin when tiny blood vessels near the front of the nose become dry, scratched, irritated, or bumped.

This episode explains how electric eels generate electricity using special cells called electrocytes.

Josh explains why bugs bite and sting, answering a child's question in a slow-paced, family-friendly format.

Josh explains what a blister is and how it forms due to friction, answering a curious kid's question.

Josh explains how hot air balloons fly by using the principle that warm air rises, engaging kids with relatable examples.

A daily educational podcast for kids that answers a curious question about the smallest animal in the world.

An interactive episode where kids help answer questions about frogs and toads, share stories and jokes.

A daily educational podcast for kids that answers a child's question about how far sea turtles can swim, with interactive segments.

Host Josh explains the science and process behind making cotton candy, from ordinary sugar crystals to fluffy candy threads, using personal childhood memories of his family's cotton candy machine.

Host Josh explains what TNT is, breaking down the science behind explosions in an engaging way for children.

Host Josh explores why Antarctica is the coldest continent on Earth, explaining how its location at the South Pole, weak sunlight, reflective ice sheets, high elevation, and desert conditions combine to create extreme temperatures.

Host Josh explores the surprising history of Nintendo, revealing that the video game giant started in 1889 as a Japanese playing card company called Nintendo, which may translate to 'leave luck to heaven.' The episode traces Nintendo's evolution from traditional Hanafuda cards to Game & Watch devices, Donkey Kong arcade games, and eventually the Nintendo Entertainment System that introduced Mario to the world.

Host Josh explains what a galaxy is to young listeners, describing the Milky Way as a spiral galaxy containing hundreds of billions of stars held together by gravity, with a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A* at its center.

Host Josh explains the science behind why cakes rise in the oven, breaking down how leavening agents like baking powder create carbon dioxide bubbles that expand with heat, while proteins in flour and eggs form a stretchy network that traps the bubbles and sets into a sponge-like structure.

Host Josh answers a listener's question about why people talk in their sleep, explaining the scientific term somniloquy, how it relates to sleep stages like REM and non-REM, and what causes parts of the brain to activate during sleep.

Host Josh answers a question from curious kids about why soda explodes when shaken, explaining the science of carbon dioxide, pressure, and nucleation in a fun, engaging way for children.

Host Josh explains the science of coughing to young listeners, breaking down how the body's reflex system detects irritants in the airway and triggers a cough to clear them out.

Host Josh explains the physiological reasons behind the 'butterflies in your stomach' feeling when nervous, covering the fight-or-flight response, hormone release, digestive muscle changes, and the vagus nerve connection between brain and gut.

Host Josh explains the science behind why liquid stays in a straw when you cover the top with your finger, breaking down how air pressure and gravity interact to create this common phenomenon.

Host Josh explores the hypothetical scenario of the sun exploding or disappearing, explaining the scientific consequences for Earth including the eight-minute delay before we'd notice, the gradual loss of heat and light, the breakdown of timekeeping and orbits, and the collapse of plant life due to lack of photosynthesis.

Host Josh answers a question from a child named Leo about how long crocodiles live.

Host Josh explains how different types of printers work in a fun, educational episode for kids.

Host Josh explains the science behind why ice cubes crack when placed in drinks, covering thermal expansion, temperature differences, and how trapped air bubbles create weak spots in the ice.

Host Josh answers his nephew Noah's question about why donuts have holes, explaining the science of frying, heat conduction, and how the hole helps donuts cook evenly.

Host Josh explains the science behind ceiling fans to young listeners, breaking down how induction motors use magnetic fields created by electricity flowing through coils to make the fan blades spin.

Host Josh explains how refrigerators work by moving heat from inside to outside using refrigerant that changes between liquid and gas phases.

Host Josh demystifies how automatic doors work, explaining the sensors (radar and infrared), the controller 'brain', and the motor that make them open.

Host Josh answers a listener's question by explaining the science and process behind making ice cream, from basic ingredients and home churning to industrial-scale pasteurization, homogenization, and controlled air incorporation (overrun).

Host Josh explains how different types of thermometers work to measure body temperature, covering glass thermometers with expanding liquids, digital thermometers with thermistors that measure electrical resistance, and infrared forehead thermometers.

Josh explains why fingers go numb in cold weather, detailing how the body uses vasoconstriction to protect vital organs by reducing blood flow to extremities, and how cold slows nerve signals, leading to pain and numbness.

Josh explores why exercise makes you feel good, explaining how it increases oxygen flow to the brain, releases mood-boosting chemicals like endorphins and dopamine, regulates stress hormones, and builds confidence.

Josh explores the question of how we know when we fall asleep, explaining that sleep is a gradual process where awareness fades as the brain powers down.

Josh explores why glass is transparent, explaining how light passes through it without much absorption or scattering compared to other solids.

Josh answers a kid's question about how Legos are made, shares jokes, and highlights listener contributions in a daily educational podcast for children.

Josh explains the difference between asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites in a slow-paced, interactive style for kids and parents.

Josh explains how TVs work using pixels and light to create images, answering a common question from curious kids.