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40. Did We Start the Fire? If Not, How Long HAS It Been Burning?40. Did We Start the Fire? If Not, How Long HAS It Been Burning?

July 26, 2017

Humans love fire, in the form of BBQ or combustion engines. A raging forest fire, however, can be devastating for our flimsy wooden human houses. Why then, is it so important that we let them burn? In this episode, the Science Ladies uncover:

How fire has been shaping ecosystems since long before any human ever lit a match
The forest-dwelling pyromaniacs that thrive in the flames, and why these species need fire to survive
What fire really is, and how it burns
The science behind putting out a fire (or, “How to not burn down your kitchen”)

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30. Octo-Knowledge30. Octo-Knowledge

April 12, 2017

What’s going on inside a nautilus’s shell? Is it true that cephalopods can edit their own genes? An octopus has how many brains?

Oh hey.

Join Keera & Kira, plus coordinators of the Portland branch of the March for Science and test your Octo-knowledge in today’s quiz, “Science Fact or Science Fiction: Cephalopod Edition.”

We hope to see you at the Portland March for Science, taking place on Saturday, April 22nd, 2017! Kira & Keera will be there, with their nonprofit educational organization, Science Project. From 10am until 3pm, the Science Project’s exhibit, “Oceans: Dive Deeper!” will provide lots of exciting hands-on experiments that will give you a better understanding of the many layers of our oceans. Plus we’ll be unveiling our very first edition Everything Is Interesting t-shirt!! Come by and visit us, and get your very own!

4/12/2017

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21. Snowflakes21. Snowflakes

January 18, 2017

A raging ice storm has had most everyone in Portland trapped indoors, with nothing to do but listen to old episodes of Everything Is Interesting. Visions of snowflakes dancing in their heads, K+K the science questions they dreamed up about cold weather, and the way snow forms.

They also asked listeners what snow questions they had been pondering, and got some pretty good ones! So here’s the answers!

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