Trends: How do they start?
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
American Public Media
4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Collecting Pokémon cards. Trading friendship bracelets. Painting your nails black. All these things have been trendy at some point, somewhere. But how did they become cool? And who made them popular?
Join Molly and co-host Harlynn as they explore the fussy and fabulous world of trends. Sanden will reveal how trends start and spread throughout a population—and why beige wallpaper it out and mocha mousse brown is IN! They’ll also learn about trends in animal populations like orca whales and chimpanzees. To top things off, Marc will start a fad by accident: fruit pants! (Yes, they’re literally pants with dried fruit stuck to them.) Plus, a super cool mystery sound.
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| 0:00.0 | Molly here. Imagine this. A friend comes over and you greet them in your slick new Brains-on |
| 0:06.2 | shirt. They check out your rad Brains-on wall poster, and when you go to draw together, |
| 0:11.6 | they pick a color from your cool new Brains-on pencil pouch. It could all come true if you win our |
| 0:16.6 | giveaway. Right now, when parents sign up for our newsletter, they'll be entered for a chance to win a Brainson shirt, poster, and pencil pouch. Go to brainson.org slash newsletter to sign up. And parents, we made this newsletter with you in mind. We cover topics like how to talk to kids about crushes or how to make friends as adults. Plus, we'll share parenting tips and cool facts. |
| 0:41.1 | Get on the list now by going to brainson.org slash newsletter. |
| 0:44.2 | That's brainson.org slash newsletter. |
| 0:48.7 | Everyone signed up for the newsletter will be in the drawing for the giveaway. |
| 0:51.8 | Again, that's brainson.org slash newsletter. |
| 0:59.6 | You're listening to Brains on where we're serious about being curious. |
| 1:05.7 | Brains on is supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. |
| 1:09.4 | Hey Molly. |
| 1:10.0 | Hey Harlan. |
| 1:18.4 | Hi, Mark. Want to try some dried guava? Oh, sure. That sounds... Whoa. Nice pants, Mark. |
| 1:30.6 | What? These? Oh, thanks. Um, as you know, I've been learning to dry fruit, and I think I finally got it down. Check it out. I made rubbery apples, chewy cherries, gnaworthy nectarines, plastic. Amazing. Is that papaya on your pants? |
| 1:39.0 | What? Oh, yeah, yeah. While I was tinkering in the kitchen, I accidentally tore a hole in the knee of my pants, so I hot-glute some dried fruit slices to fix it. |
| 1:49.3 | So, which leathery fruit snack do you want to try first? |
| 1:53.5 | Whoa, the strawberries on your shins are so iconic. |
| 1:57.9 | Oh, and are those blueberries on the butt? Turn around again and let me see. |
| 2:03.5 | Yeah, yeah, strawberries on the shins, blueberries on the butt, mangoes on the cuffs. Look, |
| 2:08.1 | I tore up my pants real good chopping and slicing and shredding all this fruit. I didn't have |
| 2:12.8 | time to put on new ones, so I just patched them with whatever was around, which happened to be |
| 2:17.0 | dried fruit. |
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