Ask Tai Why: Freckles, video games, and climate-changing farts

Tai Asks Why

CBC

Kids & Family

4.2 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In bonus segment Ask Tai Why, Tai answers some questions for a change. This week, he takes questions from: Grace, Hamilton: Why do I have freckles Henry: Why are Video Games so violent? Alex, Halifax: Are farts changing the climate?

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0:00.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:04.0	Hi there, it's me, Ty. You got questions? I've got answers.
0:09.0	Ask why.
0:10.0	Hi, Ty, why?
0:12.0	Hi, Ty. Hi, Thai, Thai, Hi, Thai.
0:13.0	Hi, I'm, Hi, I have a high,
0:15.0	I have a question.
0:18.0	Ask Thai. To ask Thai Why? To play the message press 2.
0:25.0	Hi Tast, my name is Grace. I'm from Hamilton. I show my circles. How did I get them? Thanks, Tast. I saw
0:33.7	How did you get your freckles?
0:34.7	How did you get your freckles?
0:36.7	That's a good one.
0:38.1	So our skin has this stuff called melanin and basically freckles are just little dots of melanin
0:46.0	Melinin is this light absorbing pigment and helps us protect the skin
0:50.4	from the sun's harmful UV rays by either reflecting or absorbing and just
0:55.4	dealing with this radiation. So when you have a tan that's just the melanin
1:00.5	acting up doing its thing to protect you from the sun.
1:03.6	Some people have more, some people have less, and that's just how the body works.
1:08.6	People who are pale have less melanin and that's why they tend to burn instead of tan.
1:13.0	We have these skin cells called melanocytes,
1:16.0	which is where melanin is made.
1:18.0	Freckles happen when these melanocytes,
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