Good Morning

Aline-Luise Kamps

Good Morning - the school run podcast. Ten minutes of curious news, brain-teasing riddles, quick maths, a new word every day and a joke to finish. Fresh every school morning, made to wake up sleepy brains before the first bell.

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#18
Yesterday · 9 min
The step in the sand & scared of spiders, still a nature fan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! On this day in 1922, one stone step in the sand led to the greatest treasure tomb ever found. Plus: why being scared of spiders does not stop you loving nature, two new words (hoe, substitute), and Day 3 of the five-times-table mission with a new missing-numbers game.
#17
Tuesday · 10 min
Dinosaur blood & the two-planet spacecraft
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Traces of red blood cells found in a 115-million-year-old dinosaur bone, the clever spacecraft that visited two planets on this day in 1973, two new words (commence, mineral), and Day 2 of the five-times-table mission.
#16
Monday · 9 min
DNA: the secret instruction book & the day TV was born
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Inside every living thing sits a tiny instruction book written in just four letters - today we open it. Plus: 90 years since the very first television broadcast, two new words (genetic, heredity), and Day 1 of the five-times-table mission.
#15
Sunday · 9 min
The boy who never gave up: a Rafa special
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A special Sunday episode about the greatest fighter in tennis: the new Rafa documentary, two powerful words (rivalry, resilience), a tennis riddle and a joke.
#14
Saturday · 7 min
A Halloween special for three best friends
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! https://rss.com/podcasts/good-morning-pod2/voicemail A special Halloween episode for three best friends off to a sleepover: the true 2,000-year-old story of Halloween, from the Celtic fire festival of Samhain to souling, guising and apple bobbing; two spooky new words - eerie and apparition (with a little Harry Potter magic); a tiny quiz for huge book fans; a candle riddle; a skeleton joke; and the official sleepover survival kit. No Number Ninja today.
#13
Friday · 11 min
A brand-new wild cat & the radio play that fooled America
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! https://rss.com/podcasts/good-morning-pod2/voicemail Today's topics: the tilcayo - a brand-new species of wild cat from Bolivia, found thanks to a "weird" kitten and years of DNA detective work, hiding in plain sight; on this day in 1938 the War of the Worlds radio play that accidentally convinced some listeners the Martians had landed, and the superpower of checking whether something is real; the big Friday recap of all this week's words and riddles; an easy Number Ninja and news of next week's five-times-table mission; and a joke about a sleeping bull.
#12
October 29 · 11 min
Owls changing colour & the internet's first two letters
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! https://rss.com/podcasts/good-morning-pod2/voicemail Today's topics: barn owls are slowly changing colour, and DNA from more than three thousand of them proves it is evolution happening right now in the wild - one of the clearest views scientists have ever had; on this day in 1969 the internet was born with a message just two letters long, because the computer crashed - the story of LO, packet switching and lo and behold; Word Power: evolution and transmit; Number Ninja adding and taking away; and a riddle that gets wetter the more it dries.
#11
October 28 · 10 min
A comet from another star & the Statue of Liberty's secret
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! https://rss.com/podcasts/good-morning-pod2/voicemail Today's topics: the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and what the James Webb Space Telescope discovered in its ice - clues that planets around other stars may be built from the same recipe as ours; on this day in 1886 the Statue of Liberty was dedicated - a gift from France, Gustave Eiffel's iron skeleton, more than two hundred packing cases, broken chains at her feet, and why she was not always green; Word Power: interstellar and dedicated; Number Ninja times tables; and a riddle about something you leave behind.
#10
October 27 · 10 min
Dreaming spiders, the first subway & Teddy's bear
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! https://rss.com/podcasts/good-morning-pod2/voicemail Today's topics: the jumping spiders filmed sleeping upside down, with twitching legs and flickering eyes that look just like dream sleep; on this day in 1904 the New York subway opened - the mayor who would not stop driving, and why London's Underground is the oldest in the world; Theodore Roosevelt's birthday and the true story of how the teddy bear got its name; Word Power: diurnal and inaugural; Number Ninja adding and taking away; and a riddle with a head and a tail.
#9
October 26 · 10 min
The students who won & the Hunter's Moon
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! https://rss.com/podcasts/good-morning-pod2/voicemail Today's topics: the students in Serbia who formed their own list of candidates and won the election, and what it means to concede; the Hunter's Moon, why low moons look enormous, and the mirrors Apollo astronauts left behind; on this day in 1825 the Erie Canal opened - how locks lift boats uphill and the mules that pulled them; Word Power: concede and lunar; Number Ninja times tables; a prickly riddle; and a joke that is out of this world.
#8
October 25 · 10 min
The extra hour, falling leaves & hockey heroes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Today's topics: a special Sunday half-term episode - why the clocks went back (William Willett and The Waste of Daylight), spring forward fall back and Double Summer Time; Word Power: deciduous and hibernation; hockey facts from ancient Egypt to the Olympics and the D rule; why leaves change colour; squirrels, conkers and the mushroom rule; Number Ninja adding and taking away; a clock riddle; and a dribbly hockey joke.
#7
October 24 · 12 min
Shooting stars, tennis butterflies & clever axolotls
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Today's topics: a special Saturday half-term episode - Word Power: meteor and sportsmanship; handling first-tournament butterflies, fair play and the reset routine; the Orionid meteor shower from Halley's Comet and how to spot a shooting star this week; SpaceX's plan to catch both halves of the biggest rocket ever built; United Nations Day, 24 October 1945; the axolotl that can judge sizes in complete darkness; Number Ninja times-tables special; Riddle Time; and a fishy tennis joke.
#6
October 23 · 9 min
Jack-o'-lanterns & bat mums
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Morning run to school - the last one before half term. Today's topics: why we carve pumpkins at Halloween - the Irish tale of Stingy Jack and his turnip lantern, and how pumpkins took over in America; surprising pumpkin facts; brand-new science news about bat mothers who know their baby's voice among thousands; Word Power (superstition and harvest); a mixed Number Ninja round; a mushroom riddle; our big Friday recap and a pumpkin joke.
#5
October 22 · 9 min
Democracy, the King & a piano riddle
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Today: What is democracy? - The King vs the Prime Minister - Word Power: laureate & curiosity - Number Ninja: times tables - Riddle Time - False autumn: why trees shed their leaves early
October 21 · 10 min
Nobel Prizes & pond algae
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Morning Run to school. Today's topics: The Nobel Prizes - what a Nobel Prize is and how dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel started them; this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay; the Nobel Medicine Prize and the tiny pond algae behind optogenetics (switching brain cells on and off with light); and why a rare kind of river, found almost only in England, had a hard summer. Plus two riddles, takeaway maths, Word Power (laureate and curiosity) and a dinosaur joke.

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