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Brains On! Science podcast for kids

The nerve! Electricity in our bodies

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Your body is making and using electricity all the time — but how do we do it? We’ll take a look at how bioelectricity helps our brain sends signals and our hearts pump blood. And we’ll learn about some amazing animals that use electricity in weird and wild ways.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi brains on listeners it's Molly and Sandin and Mark and as you know brains

0:05.4

on is powered by your questions ideas and mystery sounds but we're also powered

0:10.0

by your support. Brains on is listener driven meaning listeners you help us do

0:15.0

what we do and since you love the show we're asking you to help us keep it going

0:18.6

just go to brainson.org slash donate to find out how here are some fans who have

0:24.0

already helped out. My name is Gavin and I'm from Portland, Oregon and I'm Max

0:28.3

Gavin's brother. We donated brains on because we really enjoy listening to it.

0:33.4

If brainson is something you like to consider giving like we did. Thanks for a

0:38.8

great program. Yeah thanks brainson. We love making this show it's our favorite

0:46.8

job ever and when you support the show it totally makes our day and to thank you

0:51.8

we've got some really rad gifts like brains on headphones color changing

0:57.2

water bottles and a coloring book. Don't don't forget the cool new electric

1:01.7

blue shirt we just had made. Sandin I think it's more of a teal. It's kind of

1:05.1

more like blue raspberry. Anyway you can see it for yourself at brainson.org slash

1:10.1

donate thanks for the support and thank you. That weird. Okay well edit it.

1:28.2

You're listening to brainson or worst series about being curious.

1:33.1

brainson is supported on part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

1:39.4

This is the fourth episode of our series on electricity and that means it's

1:44.4

time for another stop at the electric games. Welcome back to this broadcast of the

1:53.3

Electric Games. We've seen feats of daring, leaps of knowledge and

1:58.6

bracing moments of insight but it's time to take a moment to meet one of the

2:04.1

games unsung heroes. Scrabonius Lorgas. Team doctor extraordinaire. Happy to be

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