National Geographic Kids WHY?: Genes
Disney Magic of Storytelling
Disney
3.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Disney's Magic of Storytelling podcast, brought to you by WakeMed Children's, |
| 0:08.1 | because inside every child is a story waiting to be told. |
| 0:12.7 | Our storyteller is ABC 11 news anchor John Clark. |
| 0:17.8 | Why? Over 1,111 answers to everything by Crispin Boyer. |
| 0:23.6 | Introduction. |
| 0:26.6 | Why is the sky blue? Why is your snot yellow? |
| 0:32.6 | Why do skunks smell like the worst thing ever? Why do we ask? Why? You have questions. This book has |
| 0:41.9 | answers. Over a thousand of them spread across hundreds of topics. Some are serious. Some |
| 0:48.2 | are silly. Some are strange. And some answer questions you never thought to ask. Many put to rest those nagging |
| 0:57.0 | questions that pop into your noggin at the strangest times and keep you awake at night. Reading |
| 1:03.0 | why will help your mind unwind. This book has so many answers, in fact, that we've |
| 1:09.1 | no time to waste. The sky is blue because air molecules in our atmosphere filter blue light out of the color spectrum. |
| 1:16.6 | Snott gets its yellow and eventually green color from a chemical in your white blood cells, |
| 1:23.6 | which your body unleashes to fight infection. |
| 1:26.6 | Skunks reek because they have glands in their butts loaded with an icky musk. |
| 1:32.9 | And why do we ask? Why? |
| 1:35.7 | Well, that question is a little complicated. |
| 1:38.2 | We'll get to it and many, many other mysteries soon enough. |
| 1:42.3 | Just keep in mind that discoveries are being made all the time |
| 1:46.0 | and that theories are constantly evolving. While this book packs in the most up-to-date answers |
| 1:52.0 | now, things might be different ten years from now. In the meantime, keep Y handy for when you |
| 1:59.0 | need instant answers, want to stump your parents, |
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