Fashion's New Spider Sense - Life Lab, Pt. 4

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Tumble’s Life Lab Show at the Cambridge Science Festival

Spider silk? Mushroom leather? Discover what’s next in fashion: Clothes made from synthetic biology. We hear the story of how a synthetic biologist went from collecting spiders in his bedroom to working with some of the biggest names in fashion.

This episode features Dr. Dan Widmaier, CEO of Bolt Threads.

You can find a transcript and other educational materials about this episode on the blog on our website, sciencepodcastforkids.com.

Life Lab is supported by the Engineering Biology Research Consortium, a non-profit committed to educating the next-generation and building a community dedicated to solving big challenges with engineering biology. Funded by the National Science Foundation.

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0:00.0	Hey, tumble listeners!
0:01.8	We have two quick announcements for you.
0:04.0	First, we want to hear what you think about Kids Podcasts.
0:08.5	Parents, fill out a quick survey at kidslisten.org to help us learn more about you.
0:13.9	That's at kidslisten.org.
0:16.7	Second, we're doing a free live show in Boston this Sunday, October 9th.
0:23.3	We'll be at the Cambridge Science Festival with some special guests from LifeLab.
0:28.0	The details are in the episode description.
0:30.0	We'll love to see you there.
0:36.0	Hi, I'm Lindsay.
0:37.0	And I'm Marshall.
0:38.0	Welcome to tumble the show where we explore stories of science discovery.
0:42.0	This is part four of LifeLab, our five-part series about how tiny life can change the world.
0:48.0	In our last episode, we sat in on a conversation between a dad and his eight-year-old daughter.
0:53.0	As they figured out how to make good decisions about synthetic biology.
0:58.0	It gave us some ways to think through some tough questions.
1:01.0	You should listen to that episode if you haven't already.
1:03.0	Now, we're about to discover the most trend-setting, future-thinking, avant-garde,
1:09.0	next, next, next, next, next, season's fashion.
1:13.0	All made with synthetic biology.
1:25.0	Marshall, I can't believe it's already our fourth episode of LifeLab.
1:29.0	I know. It's really flown by.
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