‘What’s New Today’ is a kids and family podcast. In every episode, a child from anywhere in the world joins the host – Sangeetha – to explore one story from what’s happening around us. These are free-wheeling conversations with children which and are full of spontaneous reactions, curious quips and guaranteed laughs.
Episode One: Introducing ‘What’s new today’Created by: Sangeetha
Started: September 20th, 2021
Status: Active, 248 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
<a href="https://soundcarrot.com/shows/shows/whats-new-today/page/30/" title="SoundCarrot.com - Children's podcasts"><img src="https://soundcarrot.com/img/sc-sm.png" alt="Listen On SoundCarrot" style="width: 200px; height: auto" /></a>Our story for today begins more than 50 years ago. It was a pleasant night in summer in July 1969. Well past 10 pm EST, people in the US sat up wide awake in front of their TV sets to watch a grainy, black and white video of man landing on the moon for the first time in the history of mankind. Following this stellar achievement, the US sent over 10 missions with many more crew members who set foot on the moon, collected rock samples and came back to earth. This frenzy of sending manned lunar missions lost steam by 1972. The US decided to use the money for a bunch of other challenges facing the country, rather than send more and more people to the moon. The story cuts to 2021 after seeing no action since 1972. NASA recently announced that it would send a manned crew to the moon by 2024. This would include at least one woman and person of colour. In today's podcast we evaluate how valid the two most common reasons given for the renewed interest to going to the moon. First being that we can collect rare earth metals from the moon's surface (mining these on earth being polluting, and it's perhaps okay to pollute the moon). The second reason often stated is that living on the moon for a month will give us enough ideas on how to send a manned exploration to Mars next. Also, if we can find a way to harness the water on moon, we can use it as a fuel to send rockets off the moon's surface. Listen to today's podcast to understand how valid these reasons are. If you have story snippets of your own on any current event, please share your audio message on hello@wsnt.in
Today's story begins over 30 years ago when a rather large country called the Soviet Union broke off into smaller units. One of them is a unit we call today as Russia. Many Russians were sad that some land parts that were close to their heart were lost to them. One of them was Ukraine. An old Russian civilisation called the Ruriks had set up their rule from Kiev, which is today the capital of Ukraine. In today's episode, we cover fun facts about Ukraine (did you know that Ukraine is the biggest country in Europe ?) and about what happened to Ukraine as the story progressed over the next few years.Listen to the episode to understand why Russia took away a small part of Ukraine called Crimea in 2014 and what Russia is trying to do now, by assembling more than 170,000 troops along the Russia – Ukraine border.Are we about to have another war ? Or is this all a nice little game of bluff ?If you have an answer to our question that you would like to be played in our next episode, please email your audio message to hello@wsnt.in
China flew over 150 airplanes over the Taiwanese air defense zone in the past week or so. Taiwan retaliated with its aircrafts, alert to defend itself if a threat arose. So far, there hasn’t been an open war. But what does this mean for Taiwan’s independence and democracy ?Why does China want to attack Taiwan ?Taiwan is a tiny island near China. More than 70 years ago, two groups of people competed to win the right to rule China. A group called the Communist Party, led by Mao Zedong, won. The…
The Nobel Prize for Physiology 2021 goes to two scientists who have helped us identify which receptors in our bodies sense heat, touch, temperature and pressure.In this podcast, we explain what these 4 receptors (TRPV1, TRPM8, PIEZO1, PIEZO2) mean, in simple terms for kids to understand. We also answer questions raised by our young listeners –a) We always knew that we had sensors for touch and heat that sent information to our brain. What does this research tell us additionally ?b) Why are these receptors important for us ? What would happen to us, if we did not have these receptors ?c) All this information sounds interesting to be printed on encyclopedias and science textbooks. But where would we really be using this?
This festive season, grocery stores the world over may find fewer toys, furniture, clothes and other such items. After the pandemic, people started buying more things both on ecommerce portals and in person once the neighbourhood stores opened. As a result, factories in Asia – which is where most of the world gets its stuff, started producing more. But in the meanwhile, another little crisis had been brewing.
SpaceX, Amazon and many more internet satellite companies are planning to send over 60,000 satellites into the space over the next few years. While this can serve many under-served parts of the world with faster and cheaper internet connectivity, this can also have a harmful impact, by way of light pollution.Light pollution is caused by the fact that there can be more visible satellites than there are visible stars. This can impact the ability of astronomers to see the night sky clearly. Also, this can increase the risk of leaving too much space debris after the satellites stop being functional.Internet satellite companies and astronomers are working together to figure out the right brightness levels. Until this is still being sorted, we remain at risk of rising light pollution and crazy bright night skies.In case of thoughts and queries, please reach out to us via text or audio message to hello@wsnt.in
Thousands of Haitians are camping outside the US, near the Mexican border, seeking refuge. These Haitians have spent over a decade living and working outside Haiti, in various countries in S.America, mainly Brazil and Chile. Haiti was impacted by an earthquake over a decade ago, and more recently in August this year. Jobs and food are scarce to come by in Haiti. The US, however, is turning back these refugees and sending them back in planes.
People in UK face a shortage of fuel in fuel station and groceries in supermarkets, not due to shortage of food or fuel, but due to a shortage of truck drivers who can haul these items across the country. Between Brexit and the pandemic, the UK is faced with a grim winter. For the immediate future, the government plans to issue 10,000 more visas to combat the shortage. But it waits to be seen, how the government will sort this shortage out in the longer term.NASA’s LANDSAT 9 was recently laun…
Created by: Sangeetha
Started:
September 20th, 2021
Status: Active, 248 episodes
Kind: Episodic
Language: English
When Chloe is sent off to live with her mysterious and eccentric grandmother she learns an unbelievable secret. Grandma Ivy is none other than Mother Nature herself! And Chloe is next in line to assume to the power and responsibility of the job. Can a twelve-year old learn to balance the entire world’s ecosystem while just trying to fit in at her new school? Only Mother Nature knows.
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