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

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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

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You're listening to brains on where we're serious about being curious

Hello, hello, hello. I'm your host Molly Bloom and today our producer Mark Sanchez is joining me. Hello. Hello

Molly

Today we're going to tackle a question about sneezing. Why does the heat of the sun provokes sneezing and not the heat of the fire?

Interesting question, right? Right, but that wasn't from one of our listeners. Nope. This question was asked over

2300 years ago by Greek philosopher and scientist

Aristotle which leads us to Caitlin and Megan from Portland, Oregon

Hi, I'm Caitlin and I'm nine years old. Hi, I'm Megan and I'm seven years old

Our question is why does the sun make you sneeze whenever I come out from the store from school and out to recess?

If it's a sunny day and I happen to glance up at the sky, I sneeze. We don't know why we sneeze when we look up at the sun

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