What makes dolphins so smart?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Dolphins are super cool sea creatures that can swim fast, jump high, and make all kinds of nifty noises. But did you know that they also have big complicated brains like humans do? How did they get those big brains, and what do they use them for? We asked science writer Vicky Stein to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | Chances are pretty good that you're hearing my voice right now in the car. |
| 0:05.1 | Well, you're not alone. |
| 0:07.1 | It turns out that the car is an ideal place for learning, and that is science fact. |
| 0:12.7 | Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, |
| 0:15.0 | we teamed up with the Science Museum of Minnesota to study how parents and kids interact |
| 0:19.9 | as they listen in the car. |
| 0:21.8 | And we're going to do a live webinar on Thursday, May 8th to talk about what we learn from the study. |
| 0:27.8 | We'll give you tips on sparking more curiosity, developing scientific inquiry skills, and more. |
| 0:34.1 | All while driving to school or soccer. |
| 0:36.5 | So, join us live on YouTube on Thursday, May 8th at 3 p.m. Eastern. |
| 0:41.5 | You can find all the info at brainson.org or head to our YouTube channel at Brains On Show. |
| 0:51.7 | From the brains behind Brains On, this is Moment of Um. |
| 0:58.6 | Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Captain Smartypans. |
| 1:09.0 | Um. |
| 1:09.5 | Um. |
| 1:09.6 | Um. |
| 1:13.3 | My good day to you, my fellow smarties. |
| 1:16.1 | I'm pleased as punch to be pontificating on this prodigiously popular podcast. |
| 1:21.1 | I spend at least 38.6 minutes each day celebrating my enormous human brain. |
| 1:27.3 | That's after I've done an ultra-difical crossword puzzle, |
| 1:30.6 | three brain teasers and two thought experiments. Gotta keep the old thinker machine in tippy top |
| 1:35.8 | condition. We humans have incredible intelligence thanks to that elegant electric meatball, |
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