The wonderful weirdness of water

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

One of the weirdest substances in the universe is right under your nose. No, not boogers. Water! Water seems ordinary, almost boring, but take a closer look and you’ll find a wonderfully weird molecule that behaves like nothing else in the universe. It can move up against gravity. It can absorb lots of heat energy without getting super hot. It can dissolve almost anything. It carves canyons and quenches our thirst. Why is water so weird, and why does that matter? Listen to find out! Today’s episode is sponsored by: KiwiCo (kiwico.com/brainson); Children’s Cancer Research Fund (ccrf.org) and ModCloth (modcloth.com and offer code BRAINSON)

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0:00.0	You're listening to Brains On, where we're serious about being curious.
0:03.8	Brains On is supported on part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
0:11.1	There's a dimension just outside the reach of human knowledge,
0:15.3	a place of wonder and terror.
0:18.5	Things may appear normal, but the closer,
0:21.1	you'll find peculiarities beyond your wildest imagination.
0:25.8	It's a dimension we like to call the Hydrozone.
0:32.4	Imagine if you will a substance that defies nature,
0:37.4	a liquid that can crawl upwards against gravity.
0:41.4	It's both sticky and slippery, hard and soft.
0:45.2	It's able to cut through the hardest rock,
0:47.8	and yet still be moved by a gentle wind.
0:51.8	What is this alien substance?
0:54.2	A goo from a planet orbiting a distant star?
0:57.8	A thing created in some lab?
1:02.2	No, it's just water and speaking of...
1:09.4	Magic see-through juice.
1:11.6	I love you.
1:13.6	Oh, aren't we all so lucky to be living in the Hydrozone?
1:20.6	You're listening to Brains On from American Public Media.
1:26.6	I'm Molly Bloom, and here with me again is 12-year-old Katanjali Rao
1:30.2	from Lone Tree, Colorado.
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