Mom gets all excited about going shopping. But when she gets there, she freaks out… Caroline goes back to 1928 to speak to Native American athlete Jim Thorpe. How good was he? Well, All-American in football, decathlon gold medal winner in the 1912 Olympics, and then he also played major league baseball… In this episode’s [...]
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Episode 43 Featuring Jim Thorpe and Wild Places
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Episode 41 Featuring Richard Feynman and The Money Mess
Richard Feynman won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965. But it was his teaching style that made him famous. You’ll hear his trademark humor and storytelling in this Turning Points interview with Laura… Big Talk: What about the ketchup on the shirt?… Tucker Jones works with an old nemesis to find [...]
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Episode 29 Featuring George Washington and Is Our History True?
Big Talk: Why does Mom eat out of the pan in the kitchen?… Turning Points: Laura goes back to speak with Founding Father, Commander in Chief of the first US Military, and first American President, George Washington…. On Boom Radio Clodagh tells of a startling new technical development… Tucker Jones tries to figure out who [...]
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Episode 24 Featuring John Kennedy, Harry Potter, Science and Magic
Big Talk: Just how bad is Mom’s memory going to get? Turning Points: A sickly boy who went on to become a war hero and president of the United States, Laura talks to John Kennedy… Boom Radio: Ben Jammin’ doesn’t like the idea of these new cell phones… Someone is framing the snowman [...]
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Episode 21 Featuring Ansel Adams, Shock and Awe
Big Talk: Do you TELL your dad his pants look funny?… Ansel Adams was a famous photographer known for capturing stuff in the natural world. On Turning Points, Kelsey goes back in time to Yosemite to speak with his… On Boom Radio Ben Jammin sees some real possibilities with digital implants… When three local [...]
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Episode 18 Featuring Ernest Shackleton and The Middle East
Big Talk: Dad won’t let her run the dryer because it’s too expensive… There are adventures — and then there are ADVENTURES. As Kelsey discovers in Turning Points, the Shackleton expedition to the South Pole on the Endurance was definitely one with capital letters…. Ben Jammin is being defamed on Boom Radio… [...]
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Episode 11 Featuring Vincent Van Gogh, Use and Abuse of Power
On Turning Points, Kelsey goes back in time to interview one of history’s most colorful painters: Vincent Van Gogh… Big Talk: Does your Mom come right away when you call?… Sometimes it’s helpful, sometimes it isn’t. Widget and Whack explain how friction plays a role in our lives… Tucker Jones tries to figure out [...]
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Big Talk: So who gets served dinner first in your house?… Samuel Clemens once described a night that was “darker than the inside of a cow.” You have to think pretty hard to come up with a better descriptive phrase than that. But that was the genius of the man known as Mark Twain. [...]
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Episode 03 Featuring Thomas Jefferson and Greed
We take ideas like freedom and liberty for granted. Kelsey goes back in time to speak with one of the people who brought them over to America: Thomas Jefferson… Big Talk: Ever feel like the FBI is monitoring your phone calls?.. Master mechanics Widget and Whack explain the workings of the vacuum cleaner… There [...]
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Episode 02 Featuring Sophie Scholl and Robotics
Kelsey goes back in time to meet Sophie Scholl, a young German who worked against Hitler during World War II… Big Talk: Do grown-ups leave YOU behind?… Widget and Whack look into the world of levers (all 3 classes even!)… Tucker Jones is hired to tail a girl suspected of ditching piano lessons… Devin the [...]
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