Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Center-for-Disease-Controls-Cards-for-Kids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/10/2004 CDC’s Playing Cards for Kids Transcript Emails from listeners have brought us very interesting ideas for stories over the years that we’ve been on the air, but none quite as unexpected as this. We recently received a link to the Center for Disease […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-License-for-the-Month-of-the-Dinosaur.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 10/1/2004 A License for The Month of the Dinosaur Transcript Recently, while going through my old childhood books, I found my brother’s dinosaur hunting license. It reads: Dinosaur Hunting License Special Permit No. 737-8686 Issued to: Colin Issued by Authority U.S. Reptile Control Commission […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Up-On-the-Moon.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/20/2004 Up on the Moon Transcript I have always felt lucky to remember the first moon landing. At the time, I was only three and a half. I suppose that if I had been born just a few months later, I could have missed […]
That’s the theme song, sung by Taj Mahal, for Peep and the Big Wide World, a new animated television show for preschoolers that is meant to introduce them to some basic scientific ideas and practices.
You’re hearing a familiar tune, set to some new words by the group Tickle Tune Typhoon on their new CD, “Singing Science.”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jacques-Cousteau-1.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/11/2002 Jacques Cousteau Transcript Jacques Cousteau once said, “When one person, for whatever reasons, has had a chance to lead an exceptional life, he has no right to keep it to himself.” And how lucky we were that this underwater explorer, inventor, photographer, environmentalist […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-New-Science-of-Grossology.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 4/18/2002 Grossology and Other Scientific Phenomena Transcript Sylvia Branzei is one of a new generation of science authors and educators who are trying to connect with kids, and get them really interested in the world of science. Branzei has a method she calls “Grossology […]
It’s Inventor’s Day, in honor of the birthday of Thomas Edison. Here’s Rita Smith with a Found Again essay.
Tomorrow is Edwin Hubble’s birthday, and John Cech has some reflections on his life and scientific contributions.
You are hearing a little of “What is the Smallest Part” from a recent CD about chemistry produced by Kim Mitzo Thompson and Karen Mitzo Hilderbrand, the sisters of Twin Sisters Productions.