My air came from where?! How oxygen gets around

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.5 • 14.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Oxygen is quite the savvy traveler. We explore how this gas travels all around the world and ends up pretty much everywhere for us to breathe. Plus we'll look at how plants and others make the stuff. And we learn how oxygen ended up on Earth in the first place (hint: it involves super space explosions!). We'll make friends with some molecules, hear about a tiny fart that changed the world and guess an all new mystery sound. Oh, and this week's Moment of Um asks: "if a poisonous snake bit itself, would it die?" This episode is sponsored by Visit Panama City Beach (VisitPanamaCityBeach.com), KiwiCo (kiwico.com/brainson), Quip (getquip.com/brainson) and Calm (calm.com/brainson). You can support the show at brainson.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Brainzon, where we're serious about being curious.
0:04.1	Brainzon is supported on part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
0:10.8	Alright Mark, deep breath in and deep breath out.
0:17.0	Deep breath in and a little deep breath out.
0:21.1	Awesome work.
0:22.4	Oh oh, hang on a second, Sanin. It's Molly. What's up, bloomers?
0:25.5	Hey, I'm with Libby. Hi.
0:27.2	Hey, hang on a second. I'm going to put you on speaker because Sanin's here and, you know,
0:30.4	we're on vacation.
0:31.5	How are things going in the desert?
0:32.9	Oh, so good. The desert is amazing and Sanin is teaching you how to meditate, so I'm totally in my Zen
0:40.4	zone.
0:41.2	Uh, more own, less phone mark. Total self-enlightenment and complete inner peace isn't going to find itself.
0:49.2	Alright, we'll let you get back to that.
0:51.0	Yeah, we've got a tapered episode and where oxygen comes from anyway.
0:55.2	Oh, that's easy. Oxygen comes from plants. Thank you next.
0:58.7	Well, I think actually all this fresh air, it comes from the plants around.
1:05.2	Wait, why are there so few plants around?
1:08.5	Because it's a desert.
1:09.7	Then where is the oxygen coming from?
1:12.6	Wait, no plants equals no oxygen.
1:16.2	We're running out of air.
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