Charged up! The science of batteries

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Batteries are everywhere — they’re in our phones, our computers, our cars, our toys. But how do they work? To find out, we talk to a scientist who’s making really big batteries to store renewable energy, another who’s working on really small ones to power our phones, and we play in a park with a dog.

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0:00.0	Oh, my pie is ready.
0:03.0	Hey, Brainson!
0:04.0	Two of the world's most rad celebrity chefs here.
0:06.0	Me, Griff Jenkins.
0:10.0	Yeah.
0:11.0	And Kathy from Cooking with Kathy.
0:15.0	You might be asking yourself,
0:17.0	why are there so many chefs on a science podcast?
0:20.0	Well, Brainson is a no-ordinary show.
0:23.0	We find science everywhere in baking bread.
0:26.0	Oh, look, my bread is ready.
0:29.0	Or in elevators.
0:31.0	Or slime.
0:33.0	Or in molecular bonds.
0:36.0	Actually, that one's kind of already science.
0:39.0	Yeah, I probably should have.
0:41.0	Maybe another example.
0:42.0	Right.
0:43.0	Oh, we find science in farts.
0:48.0	Check it.
0:50.0	Oh, excuse me.
0:52.0	My bean and broccoli casserole is ready.
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