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Moment Of Um

Are bananas radioactive?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Bananas are a delicious, nutritious fruit! You can pack them in a picnic lunch or bake them into a sweet nutty banana bread. But are bananas radioactive? We asked Dr. Robert Chin to help us find the answer. Got a really a-PEEL-ing question? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll find bunches of answers for you! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.

0:07.4

Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm nervous Nelly.

0:15.5

Um.

0:24.6

You've caught me at a really bad time.

0:30.6

You see, I'm supposed to go over to my friend's house for the first time ever, and I'm feeling pretty nervous.

0:35.4

What if I have to go to the bathroom, and I'm too shy to ask where it is?

0:39.6

Or what if we have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch?

0:43.3

But she only has orange marmalade.

0:46.4

All those little chunks of orange peel in there.

0:55.6

Or, what if I accidentally bump into her fish tank and her goldfish jumps, and I try to catch it, but it's too slippery.

1:05.2

The world can be a scary, stressful place, and there's even stuff out there that I'm not sure if I should be nervous about.

1:11.5

Like the other day, I heard that bananas are radioactive. Is that true?

1:14.1

And if so, what does it even mean?

1:17.9

My friend Zoe and Allie were wondering the same thing.

1:23.8

Hi, I'm Zoe.

1:24.6

And I'm Allie. And we live in Northern Washington.

1:26.6

And we recently heard that bananas are radioactive.

1:29.7

Is this true?

1:35.0

Bananas are indeed radioactive.

1:40.9

I'm Robert Chin.

1:42.0

I'm a radiation oncologist at UCLA.

1:45.2

So we treat cancer patients with high-energy radiation beams as that tumors out of people.

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