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Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

The Secret Life of Your Shower with Noah Fierer

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Something is living in your showerhead. Scientists need your help to figure out what it is, and why it’s there. Biologist Noah Fierer is enlisting people around the country to search out the tiny, microscopic life in showers. Find out what happens when Lindsay and Marshall sign up as citizen scientists, and turn their bathroom into a lab. To find out more about the Showerhead Microbiome Project, visit http://robdunnlab.com/projects/showerheads For more citizen science projects you can participate in, check out https://scistarter.com More information about this episode on our blog at tumblepodcast.com For educational materials, support us at patreon.com/tumblepodcast or email us at tumblepodcast@gmail.com We want your questions and drawings! What do you think lives in your showerhead? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review on iTunes or Stitcher. Thanks for listening!

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0:00.0

Over the past two years of making tumble, we've heard that a lot of our listeners are using it in the classroom.

0:06.0

We're so excited when we hear that.

0:09.0

And that's why this year, we're working to create educational resources that make it even easier to use tumble in the classroom and at home.

0:19.0

If you're a teacher or parent who uses tumble for education, please, please email us at tumblepodcast.gmail.com

0:27.0

and we will send you materials in exchange for your feedback, which we value very much.

0:33.0

Or if you contribute to our Patreon campaign at the $5 level or above, you already have access to our educational PDFs.

0:43.0

So we're adding on to those all the time and make sure you stop by and check it out.

0:48.0

Education is one of the reasons we make tumble.

0:50.0

The other one is that it's fun.

0:54.0

We also should mention we're just a few dollars short of our next Patreon milestone goal and when we hit it,

1:00.0

I'll have to write a song about a science topic of your choosing that has words.

1:05.0

I can't wait to hear the song.

1:07.0

So click support on the top of our website, tumblepodcast.com for the link to our Patreon page.

1:14.0

And now it's time for the show.

1:20.0

Hi, I'm Lindsay.

1:21.0

And I'm Marshall.

1:22.0

Today we're going to be talking about something kind of weird, what lives on our shower heads.

1:29.0

Wait, something is living on our shower head?

1:32.0

Yep, and we'll be turning our bathroom into a laboratory to help discover what it is.

1:38.0

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1:45.0

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1:57.0

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