Radiolab for Kids

Today we’re bringing you a live episode we taped in Boston. It’s about clam chowder. We’re sharing it now because we’re doing ANOTHER LIVE SHOW at Little Island [https://littleisland.org/]in NYC on August 6th + 7th - and that one’s about PIZZA! The show’s free. There will be pizza. Join if you’re in NYC (or make this the reason you visit). Check out all of our other performances here [https://littleisland.org/series/radiolab/]. Lulu is a Bostonian who has never had clam chowder. Read that again. For some reason it always felt gross to her. So as an extreme challenge, we’re taking a closer look at clam chowder to see if it can become wondrous. Ana and Alan break down each ingredient - milk, potatoes, and finally clams - with a concoction of stories and guests. Then, if she’s convinced of clam chowder’s magic, Lulu will try clam chowder for the first time in her life.  You can watch a full video taping of this episode here. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzTDcwPZp4] Listen if you love clam chowder, but especially if you’re a chowda doubta.  Special thanks to scientist Rachel Hutchison from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Sea Grant for all of her clam knowledge and WBUR’s CitySpace for hosting this event. Hope to see you in New York City!   HEY GROWN-UPS! Love the show? Leave us a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating and review on your podcast app—it helps curious listeners find us! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts about Terrestrials with us [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfQ5fJWDQY6VxpY3UZ2JfUR_wWefhAB_iDGZBCF7ltfZQJAw/viewform]. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter [https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab-kids] for bite-sized essays, activities, and ways to connect with the show. Follow us on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaum_fMDGgFQCmKHUBPq_xg], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/terrestrialspodcast/], and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@terrestrialspodcast] for behind-the-scenes extras and more. Listen to original music from Terrestrials on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/album/2dJoTi6y22d3Mb7laxaCXj], Apple Music [https://music.apple.com/us/album/terrestrials-just-the-music-season-1/1769054305?uo=4&app=music&at=1001lry3&ct=dashboard], or our music page [https://wnycstudios.bandcamp.com/album/terrestrials-just-the-songs]. Got a badgering question for the team? Email us at terrestrialspodcast@wnyc.org or submit a voice memo with your name, age, and your question using this form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF9rrN-64E-wKGAnxjdCWyIi2JMA4AThp5y1BgB4X5tSZk1Q/viewform?usp=send_form]! Terrestrials is made possible in part by listeners like you. Support the show [http://terrestrialspodcast.org/join] by joining Radiolab’s membership program, The Lab—and we’ll send you a special thank-you gift from our team!

The Greenland shark is ugly. Its eyes look cloudy and dead. Its snout and fins are stubby. Its meat is poisonous. And that may be part of why most people have overlooked these sharks for so long. But there was a rumor circulating among Greenland villagers that this deepsea dweller could survive for centuries. Scientist John Steffensen went on a hunt to see if this was true and discovered that the Greenland shark can live for more than 500 years, making it the longest living vertebrate on the planet. Biologist Steve Austad explains how the shark avoids death for so long and discovers that its secret to longevity comes at a cost. It seems that to live a longer life, it opts out of some of the best stuff life has to offer: adventure, friends and companionship. Terrestrials was created by Lulu Miller with WNYC Studios. This episode was produced by Brenna Farrel, and Mira Burt-Wintonick, with help from Alan Goffinski, Ana González, Tanya Chawla, Sarah Sandbach, Valentina Powers, and Joe Plourde. Fact-checking by Natalie Middleton.  Our advisors are Ana Luz Porzecanski, Andy J. Pizza, Anil Lewis, Dominique Shabazz, Liza Demby, Princess Daazhraii Johnson and Tara Welty. Learn more about storytellers, listen to music, and dig deeper into the stories you hear on Terrestrials with activities you can do at home or in the classroom on our website, Terrestrialspodcast.org. [http://terrestrialspodcast.org]Badger us on social media: @radiolab    [https://www.instagram.com/radiolab/?hl=en]and #TerrestrialsPodcast or by emailing us at terrestrials@wnyc.org [terrestrials@wnyc.org]. HEY GROWN-UPS! Love the show? Leave us a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating and review on your podcast app—it helps curious listeners find us! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts about Terrestrials with us [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfQ5fJWDQY6VxpY3UZ2JfUR_wWefhAB_iDGZBCF7ltfZQJAw/viewform]. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter [https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab-kids] for bite-sized essays, activities, and ways to connect with the show. Follow us on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaum_fMDGgFQCmKHUBPq_xg], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/terrestrialspodcast/], and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@terrestrialspodcast] for behind-the-scenes extras and more. Listen to original music from Terrestrials on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/album/2dJoTi6y22d3Mb7laxaCXj], Apple Music [https://music.apple.com/us/album/terrestrials-just-the-music-season-1/1769054305?uo=4&app=music&at=1001lry3&ct=dashboard], or our music page [https://wnycstudios.bandcamp.com/album/terrestrials-just-the-songs]. Got a badgering question for the team? Email us at terrestrialspodcast@wnyc.org or submit a voice memo with your name, age, and your question using this form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF9rrN-64E-wKGAnxjdCWyIi2JMA4AThp5y1BgB4X5tSZk1Q/viewform?usp=send_form]! Terrestrials is made possible in part by listeners like you. Support the show [http://terrestrialspodcast.org/join] by joining Radiolab’s membership program, The Lab—and we’ll send you a special thank-you gift from our team!

We’re doing a bunch of LIVE SHOWS at Little Island in NYC on August 6th-7th. For free. Come join! Check out all of our performances here [https://littleisland.org/series/radiolab/]. Today we’re bringing you an episode we taped LIVE at The Greene Space at WNYC. In a room filled with all types of critters — scorpions, hissing cockroaches, a tarantula named Isabel and our main star… the jumping spider. Entomologist and bug lover Dr. Sebastian Echeverri [https://www.spiderdaynightlive.com/] tells us all about his love for the jumping spider’s dance moves. Lulu and the audience learn about the creepy crawlies, pet them and then EAT a bug-filled snack. Special thanks to Dr. Sebastian Echeverri for all of his insect knowledge, musician Aviva Jaye [https://www.instagram.com/avivajaye/?hl=en] for her beautiful harp composition, and Noor Shikari for preparing over 150 delicious grasshopper tacos for us.  You can watch the full video taping of this episode here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQD3qYSuzQ]! Check out Dr. Echeverri’s spider field guide Spiders of the United States and Canada [https://bookshop.org/p/books/spiders-of-the-united-states-a-guide-to-common-species-sebastian-echeverri/20267432]. If you ever find yourself in Brooklyn wanting to try some grasshopper tacos, check out Citrico [https://www.instagram.com/citricobk/?hl=en] on Washington Ave.  HEY GROWN-UPS! Love the show? Leave us a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating and review on your podcast app—it helps curious listeners find us! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts about Terrestrials with us [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfQ5fJWDQY6VxpY3UZ2JfUR_wWefhAB_iDGZBCF7ltfZQJAw/viewform]. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter [https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab-kids] for bite-sized essays, activities, and ways to connect with the show. Follow us on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaum_fMDGgFQCmKHUBPq_xg], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/terrestrialspodcast/], and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@terrestrialspodcast] for behind-the-scenes extras and more. Listen to original music from Terrestrials on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/album/2dJoTi6y22d3Mb7laxaCXj], Apple Music [https://music.apple.com/us/album/terrestrials-just-the-music-season-1/1769054305?uo=4&app=music&at=1001lry3&ct=dashboard], or our music page [https://wnycstudios.bandcamp.com/album/terrestrials-just-the-songs]. Got a badgering question for the team? Email us at terrestrialspodcast@wnyc.org or submit a voice memo with your name, age, and your question using this form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF9rrN-64E-wKGAnxjdCWyIi2JMA4AThp5y1BgB4X5tSZk1Q/viewform?usp=send_form]! Terrestrials is made possible in part by listeners like you. Support the show [http://terrestrialspodcast.org/join] by joining Radiolab’s membership program, The Lab—and we’ll send you a special thank-you gift from our team!

On the outskirts of the Nevada desert, a young dog named Hades jumped his fence and ran away from home. His family lost hope, until one night, they saw Hades on the news. For almost seven months, he had been sleeping, eating and howling with a pack of coyotes. We usually view coyotes as vicious, bloodthirsty beasts. But turns out, they can be pretty friendly. They form unlikely alliances with other animals all the time. They’re so flexible they can eat almost anything and live everywhere from open prairies to city streets, where they lurk unseen like urban ghosts.  Conservation scientist Christine Willkinson, or scrappy naturalist, [https://scrappynaturalist.com/] tells us why a coyote’s scrappiness is its greatest superpower. In a world that rewards specialists, coyotes make a case for generalists - the ones not spectacular at any one thing, but just okay at everything.  Plus, to find these ghosts in her own city, Lulu goes on an urban coyote hunt. Learn more about coyote friendships: Watch a video of a coyote eagerly waiting for its badger friend [https://youtube.com/shorts/uSGIKsi9DOA?si=Xd2YTuIpzSJMjnx4] under a busy highway in the Santa Cruz mountains. (2020) Watch this video of a raccoon and coyote becoming best friends [https://www.klkntv.com/a-raccoon-and-coyote-become-best-friends/]. Read about coyotes and ravens [https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/fauna4/fauna3a.htm#:~:text=They%20are%20interested%20in%20each,example%20of%20a%20loose%20symbiosis.] teaming up. Watch a coyote and bobcat befriending each other in Florida [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yJgEZwYD0]. (2015) Watch this unlikely friendship between a coyote and a cat [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2131483877086671]. (Australia, 2019) Terrestrials was created by Lulu Miller with WNYC Studios. This episode was produced by Ana González, Alan Goffinski, Mira Burt-Wintonick, Joe Plourde, Lulu Miller, and Sarah Sandbach, with help from Tanya Chawla and Natalia Ramirez. Fact checking was by Natalie Middleton.  Our advisors this season are Ana Luz Porzecanski, Anil Lewis, Dominique Shabazz, and Liza Demby. Support for Terrestrials also comes from the Simons Foundation, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and the John Templeton Foundation. HEY GROWN-UPS! Love the show? Leave us a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating and review on your podcast app—it helps curious listeners find us! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts about Terrestrials with us [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfQ5fJWDQY6VxpY3UZ2JfUR_wWefhAB_iDGZBCF7ltfZQJAw/viewform]. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter [https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab-kids] for bite-sized essays, activities, and ways to connect with the show. Follow us on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaum_fMDGgFQCmKHUBPq_xg], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/terrestrialspodcast/], and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@terrestrialspodcast] for behind-the-scenes extras and more. Listen to original music from Terrestrials on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/album/2dJoTi6y22d3Mb7laxaCXj], Apple Music [https://music.apple.com/us/album/terrestrials-just-the-music-season-1/1769054305?uo=4&app=music&at=1001lry3&ct=dashboard], or our music page [https://wnycstudios.bandcamp.com/album/terrestrials-just-the-songs]. Got a badgering question for the team? Email us at terrestrialspodcast@wnyc.org or submit a voice memo with your name, age, and your question using this form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF9rrN-64E-wKGAnxjdCWyIi2JMA4AThp5y1BgB4X5tSZk1Q/viewform?usp=send_form]! Terrestrials is made possible in part by listeners like you. Support the show [http://terrestrialspodcast.org/join] by joining Radiolab’s membership program, The Lab—and we’ll send you a special thank-you gift from our team!

Coquí frogs are synonymous with Puerto Rican identity. Residents of the island doze off to the high-pitched calls of coquís from dusk to dawn. There are even playlists of hours of coquí calls that lull listeners to sleep.  That’s why ProducerBud Ana, a proud Puerto Rican, was confused when she saw a poster calling for the eradication of coquí frogs at a Hawaiian airport. Turns out, residents of Hawaiʻi see coquís as a nuisance, disrupting not only their sleep but their precious ecosystems.  Listen as Ana explores how different islands can view these frogs so differently, and how, despite all of our human efforts, they won’t stop singing.  Special thanks to evolutionary biologist Ana Longo [https://thelongolab.com/people/] and professor Noelani Puniwai [https://manoa.hawaii.edu/hshk/people/kamakakuokalani/noelani-puniwai/] for telling us about coquí frogs. Watch a coquí frog perform its call [https://www.reddit.com/r/frogs/comments/1fxpxy2/there_is_no_sweeter_sound_out_there/]. Listen to Puerto Rican sleep sounds [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcvtMj6yc0o].  Terrestrials was created by Lulu Miller with WNYC Studios. This episode was produced by Ana González, Alan Goffinski, Mira Burt-Wintonick, Joe Plourde, Lulu Miller, and Sarah Sandbach, with help from Tanya Chawla and Natalia Ramirez. Fact checking was by Anna Pujol-Mazzini.  Our advisors this season are Ana Luz Porzecanski, Anil Lewis, Dominique Shabazz, and Liza Demby. Support for Terrestrials also comes from the Simons Foundation, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and the John Templeton Foundation. HEY GROWN-UPS! Love the show? Leave us a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating and review on your podcast app—it helps curious listeners find us! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts about Terrestrials with us [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfQ5fJWDQY6VxpY3UZ2JfUR_wWefhAB_iDGZBCF7ltfZQJAw/viewform]. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter [https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab-kids] for bite-sized essays, activities, and ways to connect with the show. Follow us on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaum_fMDGgFQCmKHUBPq_xg], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/terrestrialspodcast/], and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@terrestrialspodcast] for behind-the-scenes extras and more. Listen to original music from Terrestrials on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/album/2dJoTi6y22d3Mb7laxaCXj], Apple Music [https://music.apple.com/us/album/terrestrials-just-the-music-season-1/1769054305?uo=4&app=music&at=1001lry3&ct=dashboard], or our music page [https://wnycstudios.bandcamp.com/album/terrestrials-just-the-songs]. Got a badgering question for the team? Email us at terrestrialspodcast@wnyc.org or submit a voice memo with your name, age, and your question using this form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF9rrN-64E-wKGAnxjdCWyIi2JMA4AThp5y1BgB4X5tSZk1Q/viewform?usp=send_form]! Terrestrials is made possible in part by listeners like you. Support the show [http://terrestrialspodcast.org/join] by joining Radiolab’s membership program, The Lab—and we’ll send you a special thank-you gift from our team!