Newsy Pooloozi - The News Pod for Kids
Leela Sivasankar Prickitt, Lyndee Prickitt
Newsy Pooloozi is a weekly, world news podcast for smart kids and curious adults, covering science, animals, space, tech, culture, entertainment, sports… and even politics! The family friendly podcast is presented by a British-Indian-American mother-and-daughter duo, covering the world in a fun and engaging way. Newsy Pooloozi also has kid correspondents from all over the world — Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. The New York Times calls us a "news variety show." We're also on the NYT's Top 30 Podcast For Kids list (under our former name, Newsy Jacuzzi)! We are a proud Kids Listen member too. @newsypooloozi www.newsypooloozi.com
Episodes
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Jun 9, 2021 • 22min
Mega space news, Sri Lanka plastic spill, EV batteries, “Hero Rat” retires
Mega space news from new missions to Venus, fly-by of Jupiter moon, worms head space and kites on Mars, plus a cargo ship fire leads to plastic pollution for Sri Lanka, EV battery recycling break-through and Megawa, the mine-sniffing "Hero Rat," retires .
Jun 2, 2021 • 22min
Floating island city, TV space race, cicadas stink, slimy soap
Hear how the Maldives will create a "floating city" in hopes of combating rising seas that could wipe the archipelago out, how Russia and the US race to get dramatic in space, the latest on the swarms of stinky and tasty (oh, really?!) cicadas in the eastern part of America and one Frenchman's secret, snotty ingredient for soap!
May 26, 2021 • 24min
UFOs are official, burger day for earthlings, dramarama craze, crazy word dispute
The US finally - openly - investigates UFOs, international burger day for earthlings (but maybe aliens too?!), dramarama online theatre workshops are all the rage and the quaint English take to croquet to battle out a word dispute.
May 19, 2021 • 22min
Taiwan drought, gas hack, UK hugs, Oz mice plague, "centibutt" sea worm
Hear how Taiwan lives through its worst drought in 56 years, plus we explain the US gas ransom hack, how Brits trade their stiff-upper-lip for hugs, how Australia's overrun by mice and the discovery of the many-butted marine worm we like to call the "cetibutt!"
May 12, 2021 • 22min
Happy Eid, COVID kindness, biggest plane, butterfly back, sheep-V-lawnmowers
A quarter of humanity celebrates Eid, COVID is making us kinder, biggest plane on path to rocket launch, Duke of Burgundy butterfly flutters back from brink of extinction and which is better for urban lawns? It's sheep versus lawnmowers. All that and more on this week's episode! Thanks to Eestends for the music: Travis Scott RODEO X Kanye Type Beat used in the Sheep V Lawnmower story.
May 5, 2021 • 24min
Swarming cicadas, germ warrior, cookie meltdown, book club craze, ugly fish
Get ready - the cicadas are coming to the US! Also, bacteria fights microplastic, Girl Scout cookie meltdown, bookworms get crazy for book clubs, lamprey bloodsucker fish fights extinction in Australia. (This week's art is courtesy of Yule Liu!)
Apr 28, 2021 • 27min
India’s COVID crisis, world dance day, virtual Olympics, Asian dog holiday
As India buckles under a COVID crisis, we hear from our kid correspondent who’s recovered from the virus, plus an episode full of distraction hacks from dancing, to Olympic "gaming" (yes, gaming), a civics lesson in US trials plus pet love in Central Asia
Apr 21, 2021 • 21min
Epic US verdict, NASA makes history, soccer Super League, spider talk
Hear why Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict is important for America, how NASA makes space history with the first-ever flight on another planet, soccer's Super League skirmish and MIT researchers translate spider "talk." All that and more on this week's episode! And a huge thank you to Yule Liu for her delightful artwork rendition of NASA's Ingenuity.Courtroom sketch is Reuters/Jane Rosenberg.
Apr 14, 2021 • 26min
Ancient city found, Georgia voting, baguette love, Lego thieves, Candy Land
Hear about the discovery of Egypt’s lost “golden city," Georgia’s debate over a new voting law, the French love for French-bread, Lego larceny (stop thief!) and the real (ish) Candy Land in California and more this week!
Apr 7, 2021 • 22min
Shipping chaos, portable space center, Mississippi mud and mummy march
Hear about the cargo ship chaos, space center on-the-go, how The Mississippi River got clean, Nat’l Poetry Month and Cairo's march of the mummies
