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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Nov 10, 2021 • 19min
Kid News This Week: Global eco summit, India’s floating power station, bad winners, blue bananas
Will COP26 help save the planet? We unpack the global eco summit, plus hear about India’s floating solar power station, a California high school football team’s bad win and enter: the blue banana!
Nov 3, 2021 • 21min
Kid News This Week: Diwali around the world, AI and Beethoven’s 10th, Ireland’s microplastic sucker
This week hear why India celebrates its "Festival of Lights," plus how Hindus celebrate Diwali around the world. Also in the episode, artificial intelligence lends Beethoven a helping hand and a microplastic sucking device developed by a young Irish scientist.
Oct 27, 2021 • 22min
Kid News This Week: Honeybees scare, Spain's cursed village, shadow scientists, Mexico's doll island
Kid News This Week: Hear what honeybees have to do with Oct 31 (it's scary candy news!), Halloween’s history, Spain’s witchy village, shadow scientists in deep space and Mexico’s doll island on this special spooky episode!
Oct 20, 2021 • 19min
Kid News This Week: Flying microchips, Kerala exodus, California “snake-mare,” airport pig patrol
Kid News This Week: Microchip smaller than an ant can fly! Kerala's floods cause exodus, California's under-house snake pit, “ pig patrol” foil airport geese threat in Netherlands
Oct 13, 2021 • 20min
Kid News This Week: Battle against mosquitoes, beavers are back, clean cling-film, cow-poo zapper
Kid News This Week: In humanity's battle against mosquitoes – should we swat or swap them? Also, Britain’s beavers are back, cleaner cling-film is being developed and how to make cow poo less toxic for the environment? A poo zapper, naturally. All that and more on this week’s news pool for curious kids and adults!
Oct 6, 2021 • 21min
Kid News This Week: Mega comet coming, Hollywood ups and downs, UK petrol crisis, taxi-top gardens
A mega comet is heading for the sun in the next 10 years, Hollywood's box office highs but threat of workers strike looms low, UK's petrol crisis and Thailand’s taxi-top gardens - all this week in the Newsy Pooloozi news pool for kids!
Sep 29, 2021 • 21min
Newsy gets a new name! Plus “batsman” is out and new spider app
Goodbye Newsy Jacuzzi, hello Newsy Pooloozi! We tell you why, plus the game of cricket also gets a name change, the UK spends millions on carbon suckers and a new spider app helps arachnophobia.
Sep 22, 2021 • 20min
Kid News This Week: Everyday astronauts, A.I. helps art, Spain’s volcano, Germany’s moo-loo
Hear about the everyday astronauts - private citizens who spent three days in space, plus how artificial intelligence lends a helping hand in art, Spain’s spewing volcano and Germany’s Moo-Loo!
Sep 15, 2021 • 21min
Kid News This Week: India’s festive season, “fan-plastic” food wrap, tennis wonder, Ig Nobel prizes
India’s four-month festival season begins with Ganpati, new “fan-plastic” biodegradable food wrap, Emma Raducanu wows the world and Ig Nobel prizes make us laugh!
Sep 8, 2021 • 21min
Kid News This Week: Flash floods, tuna is back, Asian Marvel, “out of the box” art
News Update: Hear how and why US flash floods cause havoc, that tuna is back from the brink of extinction, Marvel's first Asian superhero “marvels” the box office and the Japanese artist who's literally “out of the box!”. Artwork this week is courtesy of Edie Cizeika Bower
