- 1 minute 7 secondsSome Stories Are Too Big for One Night 📚
These are longer stories told one chapter at a time, in order, so you can follow along from the first night to the last. I introduce each chapter, and Clark’s music plays underneath my voice to keep you company.
Here’s what’s on the shelf so far:
Anne of Green GablesThe Secret GardenThe Boxcar ChildrenThe Bobbsey TwinsBunny Brown and His Sister SueThe Curlytops on Star IslandSix Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell’sThe Tale of Grandfather MoleThe Story of a Woolly DogThe Story of a Candy RabbitThe Story of a Plush BearDon, The Runaway DogThe Adventures of Libby and MargheritaThe Rat King (for older kids)
Coming soon: Mappo the Monkey, The Ruins, and Cat City.
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22 October 2026, 12:00 pm - 21 minutes 24 secondsFun Facts: Snake-Headed Caterpillars & Sand Made by Fish 🐛🪸
In this episode, we’ll trade the big questions for a handful of small fun facts. We’ll meet a caterpillar that bluffs like a snake, then swim to a coral reef to find out how a fish helps make the sand on the beach. Lots of great facts to explore as you drift off to sleep .
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21 October 2026, 12:00 pm - 28 minutes 31 secondsDo you know about ghosts? 👻🎃 | Encore spook
We are bringing back this one from a few years ago. In this episode, we discover why you might have thought you saw a ghost. We found out that many cultures, even if they are far apart, have tales about ghosts or spirits. We looked at ghosts from a science perspective and learned that sometimes our eyes and brains play tricks on us, like seeing things that aren't really there. We also talked about how you could design an experiment to find out if the ghost your friend saw was real. Plus, we dived into the magical world of rainbows, the buzz of mosquitoes, and the mysteries of our noses. Did you know mosquitoes really like Type O blood and are drawn to carbon dioxide and sweat?
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16 October 2026, 12:00 pm - 24 minutes 49 secondsWhy Is Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Red? 🪐
Éabha, who is six, and Fionn, who is eight, both wrote to us about the same thing: what is the red spot on Jupiter made of, and why is it red?
In this episode, we'll find out that the Great Red Spot is a storm so big that Earth could fit inside it, and that a spacecraft called Juno has measured how far down it reaches. We'll visit a laboratory where scientists turned a frozen chemical reddish orange, and we'll learn why nobody can say for certain yet what colours the storm.
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14 October 2026, 12:00 pm - 23 minutes 48 secondsWhy Do a Butterfly's Wings Match? 🦋
Luna and Elodie both noticed that the pattern on one side of a butterfly looks copied onto the other. In this episode, we'll find out that butterfly wings actually grow separately, following the same genetic instructions. Along the way, we'll meet two genes that scientists found by switching them off, and see why the match isn't always perfect.
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7 October 2026, 12:00 pm - 22 minutes 12 secondsWhy do cats rub against us? 🐈⬛
This episode’s question comes from Gabe, who lives in Des Moines, Iowa. Gabe wanted to know why cats rub against us. We will explore what a cat's scent glands are doing, why cats rub against each other, and what all of that might tell us about why your cat does the same thing to you.
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30 September 2026, 12:00 pm - 24 minutes 2 secondsHow Does a Bee Choose a Flower? 🌼🐝
Ava, age 5, wants to know how bumblebees land on flowers. It turns out bees can sense something invisible in the air before they even touch down, and it took scientists years of clever experimenting to figure out what. We'll uncover the surprise hiding in our garden, then drift off to sleep as the bees head home for the night.
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23 September 2026, 12:00 pm - 24 minutes 13 secondsDo Crows Really Hold a Grudge? 🐦⬛
Did you know a crow can remember your face? If it decides you're trouble, it can recognize you years later, and it might tell its friends. Even ones that never met you.
Tonight's question comes from Anthony in Okemos, Michigan, who'd heard that crows hold grudges passed down through generations. We find out what a group of scientists in Seattle discovered when they tested it with rubber masks, and why "grudge" turns out not to be quite the right word.Have a question of your own? We'd love for you to send it to us.
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Notes:
Lasting Recognition of Threatening People by Wild American Crows
Marzluff, Walls, Cornell, Withey & Craig, Animal Behaviour (2010)
The original mask study. Crows continued scolding a mask associated
with trapping for at least 2.7 years.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347209004339
Social Learning Spreads Knowledge About Dangerous Humans Among
American Crows
Cornell, Marzluff & Pecoraro, Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2012)
The follow-up study. Traces how scolding spread to crows that were
never trapped, and to young crows that learned from their parents.
Scolding doubled in frequency and spread at least 1.2 km from the
original site over five years.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3234554/
Cooperative Breeding in American Crows
McGowan, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, long-term study, Tompkins
County, NY (1988–1997)
560 nests observed. 80% had helpers. Young crows stayed with their
parents one to six years and helped raise the next brood.
https://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/hatchrep.html
American Crow, Overview and Identification
All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Size, appearance, range, and communal winter roosting.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Crow/overview16 September 2026, 12:00 pm - 25 minutes 5 secondsNocturnal Animals: How Can Anything See in the Dark? 🌙👀
Did you know the night is never really pitch dark, even with no moon out? There's always a little light, and some animals have eyes built to catch every bit of it.
Tonight's question comes from Sage in Rochester, Minnesota, who wanted to know how nocturnal animals see in the dark. We'll find out why an animal's eyes sometimes seem to glow in a flashlight beam, and why an owl has to turn its whole head just to look at you.
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9 September 2026, 12:00 pm - 27 minutes 58 secondsSeason 5 Finale: Everything Connects 🦏🦭🪲🧠🌌✨
What does a rhinoceros have in common with a flamingo, a hedgehog, and an eagle? Why does the same logic that put your brain in your head also explain how a crocodile lies in a river? And what does a dung beetle rolling dung across an African savanna have to do with a black hole? In this episode we 5 finale follow five threads that ran through all of season 5.
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2 September 2026, 12:00 pm - 24 minutes 32 secondsDo You Know About the Dung Beetle? 🪲
In this episode, before you drift off to sleep, we are going to learn all about the dung beetle. The dung beetle does a job nobody else wants. It eats dung, rolls dung, and raises its young inside dung. And while we think this is kind of stinky, we think it's a pretty extraordinary creature. You might too.
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