Where Does The Sky End?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

Vermont Public

Nature, Language, Kids & Family, Science

4.4 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Where is the border between sky and space? That's what 5-year-old Matthias of Durham, New Hampshire wants to know. Allesandra, 3 of Bella Vista, Arkansas wants to know why we can't hold air. We're going to get scientific, but also philosophical and imaginative with anthropologist Hugh Raffles, astronomer John O'Meara, and, a special treat, cellist Zoë Keating, who scored the episode for us to help us really feel it!

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0:00.0	This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio.
0:26.6	I'm the host of this show, Jane Lindholm.
0:29.4	We take questions from curious kids all over the world and find interesting ways and people
0:34.8	to answer them.
0:36.6	Today we're going to get scientific, but also a little philosophical and imaginative.
0:43.0	And we're going to do it with the help of a friend of mine named Zoe Keating.
0:46.6	Zoe is a cellist.
0:48.2	You might remember in one episode a long time ago, we learned a little bit about how stringed
0:52.8	instruments like the cello make sound.
0:55.6	So you might want to go back and listen to that episode after this.
0:59.0	It's called Why Do People Like Different Types of Music?
1:02.9	In this episode, Zoe is going to use her cello and her songwriting ability to help us
1:08.1	feel our way through the episode as we listen.
1:15.6	I want you to look up wherever you are right now.
1:18.8	Maybe you're in a car, maybe you're in your bedroom, or maybe you're outside or near
1:23.6	a window, and you can look up, up, up as far as the sky will go until your eyesight
1:30.3	bumps into the clouds or just a barrier of blue.
1:34.5	And if you don't have sight, or maybe it's dark where you are right now, I want you to
1:39.0	just imagine what you think the sky might look like and see if you can kind of feel the
1:44.1	air all around you.
1:46.7	Hi, my name is Mathias.
1:51.3	I'm five years old.
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