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Smologies with Alie Ward

FUN with Catherine Price

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What exactly is “fun?” How will you know when you’re having it? What’s a fun magnet? Catherine Price is an award-winning journalist and author who spent years researching the science of fun for her book “The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again.” She let me lob many questions at her including: what’s the difference between happiness and laughter and fun, how can you have more…

© Alie Ward Length 24 min 24 July 2025 Age: 6-10 , 11plus Topics: Science , Educational , Nature , Animals Country: USA Type: Episodic

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© Alie Ward Length 24 min 24 July 2025 Age: 6-10 , 11plus Topics: Science , Educational , Nature , Animals Country: USA Type: Episodic

Introducing Smologies: The Shorter, Kid-Safe Ologies

Introducing Smologies: The Shorter, Kid-Safe Ologies

This is an episodic podcast, so you can listen to it in any order, but episode one is a great place to start.

Listen to episode one here

What exactly is “fun?” How will you know when you’re having it? What’s a fun magnet? Catherine Price is an award-winning journalist and author who spent years researching the science of fun for her book “The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again.” She let me lob many questions at her including: what’s the difference between happiness and laughter and fun, how can you have more of it, do animals have fun, and is it the same for everyone? It’s a fun one, I promise.

Visit Catherine’s website and follow her on Instagram

Read her book: The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again

Subscribe to her Substack newsletter, How to Feel Alive with Catherine Price

A donation went to Breakthrough T1D

Full-length (*not* G-rated) Funology episode + tons of science links

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Sound editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Jacob Chaffee

Made possible by work from Noel Dilworth, Susan Hale, Kelly R. Dwyer, Aveline Malek and Erin Talbert

Smologies theme song by Harold Malcolm

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© Alie Ward | 24 min

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