Squiz Kids

Your daily kids news podcast.

Nepal’s glacier landslide explained; Roger the working seagull; Media literacy in the spotlight; and Fat Marmot Week crowns a winner.

Rescuers are working around the clock after catastrophic flooding devastated communities in Nepal and Tibet.

All hail Dawn, the newly crowned champion of Fat Marmot Week!

More Aussie kids are turning to AI for their news, but research shows plenty are also accidentally sharing fake stories.

Meet Roger, possibly Britain’s first seagull security guard.

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Donate to help victims of Nepal-Tibet tragedy: https://emergencyaction.org.au/nepal-flood-appeal/

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Researched and hosted by Bryce Corbett

To celebrate World Lake Day, we went searching through the Squiz Kids Vault for an episode all about water. Which was lucky, really, because we’d sprung a leak and were well on the way to creating an underground lake of our own.

Thankfully, we found this Shortcut sitting safe and dry on a high shelf.

Join us as we discover where Earth’s water came from, why it’s essential to life and how the same water has been travelling around our planet for billions of years.

Look up on a clear night and you might see hundreds, or even thousands, of stars. But where did they all come from, and what makes a new star begin to shine?

This week, Isabella from Cammeray asks: How are stars formed? Christie travels into a stellar nursery to discover how gravity
gathers enormous clouds of gas and dust, why a growing protostar becomes incredibly hot, and how nuclear fusion turns it into a shining star.

Plus, if stars aren’t really on fire, what produces all that heat and light?

If you have an excellent science question you’d like Christie to investigate, send it to squizkids@thesquiz.com.au. You might hear your answer in a future Squiz Kids Science Short!

A fun kids vs adults news quiz to test who’s been paying the most attention to the week in news.

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Your daily kids news podcast.

The world remembers Dolly; Spain’s food fight festival; Sniffing out voice clones online; and Game of Thrones meets Harry Potter.

The world is remembering country music superstar Dolly Parton, not just for thousands of songs, but for her enormous generosity.

More than 20,000 people have turned a Spanish town into the world’s messiest salad, hurling squishy tomatoes at each other for La Tomatina.

From battling dragons to teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts! Game of Thrones star Kit Harington is reportedly swapping Westeros for Hogwarts.

Hear a celebrity say something outrageous online? Your ears might be fooling you. AI can now clone famous voices and make people appear to say things they never did. Squiz-E’s advice has never sounded better: STOP, THINK and CHECK!

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Researched and hosted by Bryce Corbett

Trop Jr: Short Film Competition for kids

https://www.tropfest.com/tropjr

Macfarlane Bros: When you give a kid unrestricted internet access

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4OjoWAiFqY