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Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

The Tale Of The Giant Toad with Sheril Kirshenbaum

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

When a tiny beetle starts destroying farmers' fields in Australia, scientists decide to bring in a giant toad to bite back. But they never predicted what would happen next. In this episode, science writer Sheril Kirshenbaum tells a story of science gone wild. Music in this episode is by Podington Bear.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tumble Podcast to show where we explore stories of science discovery.

0:10.6

I'm Marshall and I'm Lindsey.

0:13.0

This week we have an incredible story about what happens when science makes a big mistake

0:17.9

with a giant toad.

0:30.0

Tumble's brought to you with support from Spotify for podcasters.

0:37.8

If you're so inspired by me and Lindsey that you want to make a podcast of your own, Spotify

0:42.3

for podcasters has got everything you need all in one super easy place.

0:46.3

If you've got audio you've recorded that you want to upload, go ahead.

0:49.6

If you don't, you can record your show right on Spotify's platform and even edit and

0:53.9

add music there.

0:55.6

Then when you're done, Spotify will send everything to all the major podcasting platforms.

0:59.9

Be easy.

1:01.2

To get started, just go to spotify.com slash podcasters or download the Spotify for podcasters

1:05.9

app.

1:07.6

This story comes to us from our friend Cheryl Kirshenbaum.

1:12.5

My name is Cheryl Kirshenbaum.

1:14.3

I work at the University of Texas at Austin and I'm also a science writer.

1:19.6

Cheryl first found out about this story from an Australian documentary she watched when

1:23.9

she was a biology major in college.

1:26.8

It's something that apparently all biology majors everywhere had to watch in class.

1:32.7

And it's so strange that there's no way you can forget it once you've seen it.

1:37.8

So what's this documentary about?

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