Back-To-School: Recess 101 (Encore - 1/28/19)

Wow in the World

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Education, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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How in the world does recess make us smarter? Where in the world do kids enjoy the most of it? Join Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas on an expedition to better understand the science of taking a break! It's the Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, and Wow in the World of RECESS! (Originally aired 8/24/17.) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members! You can listen to Wow in the World, Early and Add Free on Amazon Music.
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0:36.6	What are you doing?
0:50.8	Oh, hey, Nandy. I'm just bouncing this ball.
0:53.8	Yeah, I can see that. But what are you doing?
0:58.4	Oh, just bouncing this ball here.
1:00.4	Yeah, I get that. But would I ask you if you wanted to come over to pop water balloons
1:05.0	with our armpits? Oh, you said you had scientific research to do. And this does not look scientific
1:12.0	to me, Gairaz.
1:13.0	Oh, well, I am doing scientific research.
1:16.0	Really? So I guess you're going to tell me that you're doing a physics experiment on
1:20.8	acceleration and velocity by bouncing that ball?
1:24.8	Well, actually, no. I was just bouncing this ball.
1:29.0	And I guess you're going to tell me that you're measuring acceleration based on Earth's gravity
1:35.0	at 9.8 meters per second per second?
1:39.0	Well, yes, I guess I could plot this bouncing ball on a graph according to Earth's gravitational
1:45.4	forces, but really, I promise, Midea, I'm just bouncing this ball.
1:50.3	But Gairaz, you said you couldn't come over to crack water balloons with me because you
1:53.5	were too busy doing scientific research, something about brain cognition, and this does not look
1:59.4	like scientific research to me.
2:01.2	Oh, I am, Indy. That's why I'm taking a break.
2:04.5	A break. Gairaz earlier today, you said you couldn't hang out with me because you were
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