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Ear Snacks Podcast for Kids

Tissues: How to Sneeze and Cellular Lego Kits

Ear Snacks Podcast for Kids

Andrew & Polly

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Kids & Family:education For Kids

3.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Andrew & Polly investigate the science of sneezing, how tissues are made, how the amazing human body protects itself, and how we can all protect each other when we...ah...ah...achoo! Thanks to Wow in the World’s Mindy Thomas for playing “Should I Pick It?” and communicating so much gooey science from her New York Times best-selling book The How and The Wow of the Human Body. And thanks to pediatric surgeon Dr. Willie Moses from UCSF for using his imaginary laparoscope to reveal the secrets of the cellular LEGO kit inside all of us. Thanks to the families who support our work at patreon.com/earsnacks! And thanks to the four fantastic kids -- Emily from Scotland, Mila from Wyoming, Valentino from Italy, and Izzy from California -- who helped us think about tissues inside and outside our bodies!  Thanks to this episode’s sponsors! Thanks to MIT Kids Press. Get Ada and the Galaxies wherever books are sold Thanks iD Tech Pro. To save $150 on weekly, small-group semesters, go to idtech.com/EARSNACKS and use promo code EARSNACKS. You can also get started with a 1-on-1 tutoring lesson for just $49.

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0:00.0

They catch your sneeze so you can throw it in the trash.

0:07.0

Your snacks.

0:13.0

Hello Andrew and Polly's.

0:23.5

Hmm, I wonder what we should do an episode of your snacks about today.

0:28.0

Let's see, I'm going to look at my files over here.

0:29.6

Ooh, ooh, look, I just got a new email from a friend in Scotland.

0:34.8

Emily is wondering how we make...

0:38.8

Andrew, my allergies are really acting out again.

0:42.2

It's probably all these plants I have in here or like...

0:44.8

There's a bunch of dust, too.

0:46.4

Polly.

0:47.0

Vosentite, Polly.

0:49.7

Here you go.

0:51.0

What are those things?

0:53.4

These things?

0:56.6

Uh, there are pieces of paper.

0:58.4

They look like a piece of paper.

1:00.1

White paper.

1:01.7

It can be any color.

1:03.4

Sometimes they have a bit of art on the sides.

1:06.6

A square.

1:07.4

Not triangles.

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