BIG TALK: Don’t you just hate having to BEHAVE when you have company over?… Helen Keller had no sight or hearing; nor could she speak. But she DID have a brilliant and patient teacher named Anne Sullivan. On TURNING POINTS, Kelsey goes back in time to speak to this marvelous duo … Devin [...]
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Episode 33 Featuring Nikola Tesla and Globalization I
Big Talk: Does your Dad ever help you BEFORE you ask for (and need) it?… Nikola Tesla is not exactly a famous kind of guy. He should be though. On Turning Points Laura goes back in time to discover why… Now you can learn to count to 10 in Italian!!!… Boom Radio: [...]
Read more about this episode!Episode 32 Featuring Pablo Neruda and Immigration
Big Talk: Why do parents insist on finishing what they’re doing before they help?… Turning Points: Pablo Neruda was a poet who happened to get involved in international politics. Laura goes back in time to speak with this Chilean wordsmith… On Boom Radio, Clodagh is licking her chops about new software applications…. Dave Schmave tells [...]
Read more about this episode!Episode 28 Featuring Walt Whitman, Steroids and Ethics
Big Talk: Does your Mom sing in the car? … Turning Points: In the early 1800s the world had not yet discovered a truly American poet. Laura goes back in time to interview the first real candidate: Walt Whitman…. On Boom Radio Clodagh makes it clear she does NOT have a crack in her [...]
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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 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 06 Featuring Dr. Seuss and Tiananmen Square
Theodor Geisel saw the world differently than most people. And if you are a Cat in the Hat fan, you know we’re lucky he did. On this issue’s Turning Points, Kelsey goes back in time to speak with Dr Suess… A few of your letters about the funny things grown-ups do… Well, living [...]
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Episode 42 Featuring “Izzy” Stone and Living Small
Widget & Whack: Mass & Weight …
Bubba Kowalski, chanting monks, lazy objects… In their latest physics primer, Widget & Whack somehow relate all of these to the concept of mass.
The Count: Estonian …
How to count to ten in Estonian. because you just never know…
The Big Idea: Living Small …
Hayley & the King of Complicated Stuff [...]
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Episode 39 Featuring Admiral Byrd, Politics and The Olympics
Kelsey climbs into her cold weather gear to visit famed explorer, Admiral Byrd, in the Antarctic … Primary: Elena gives her stump speech as a candidate from the BOOMERANG! party… Boom Radio: Devin the Duff tries to imagine life with secret Service Agents hanging around… When TUCKER stumbles upon participants in a [...]
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