Hi friends, it's me Mark. I'm just dropping in to tell you about a virtual party brains on is having Saturday, July 29th

It's free and you're invited

Not only are we celebrating our 10th birthday, we're also super excited to share our newest book with you

It's called meet my micro pets. The book is a fact-filled

hilarious journey through the weird and wonderful world of microbes. I know I know you're thinking

But Mark, will there be cool games at this virtual party on July 29th?

I mean, yeah, only the coolest and before you ask

There will absolutely be epic stories and yes

Molly Sandin and I will be there answering as many questions as we can during the whole event

This is a one-time only live virtual party. You do not want to miss again. It's on Saturday, July 29th

11 a.m. Pacific one p.m. Central and two p.m. Eastern had to brains on dot org slash events for a link to sign up

That's brains on dot org slash events. See you on July 29th

You're listening to brains on from American public media. We're serious about being curious and we've been hearing a lot of

Curiosity from our listeners about this

I'm amazing. I'm five years old and my question is what makes thunder?

Hello, my name is King Cade and I'm seven years old. How does lightning form in a cloud?

Thunder and lightning are linked like smoke and fire chickens and eggs cause and effect

So we need to start with King Cade's question. How does lightning form in a cloud?

We may call these kinds of storms thunder storms, but it's really lightning that is the star of the show

So how do these storms get started?

That cute fluffy white cloud out your window isn't going to turn into a thunder cloud just like that

There are some basic ingredients that are needed first. You need warm moist air near the ground

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