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Children's Corner

Saturday 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Delightful stories and music for children of all ages: The Children’s Corner provides two hours of music, stories, and imaginative activities for kids from age 2 to 92.

Annie Garde and Sam Manno alternate in hosting this weekly program, produced by Montana Public Radio.

Tai Asks Why: How Does A Song Get Stuck In Your Head – Even When You Don’t Like Them

By • Apr 19, 2021
Tai Asks Why: How Does A Song Get Stuck In Your Head – Even When You Don’t Like Them

There is a Baby Shark or Little Potato or Hamster Dance stuck in your head on what seems like an endless loop.

An “Earworm” has buried in and set up home. One study shows 92 percent of people report having songs stuck in their heads at least once a week.

Tai Asks Why: The Science Behind Bullying – And How Can We Stop It

By • Apr 16, 2021
Tai explores the science of bullying during the Children’s Corner Saturday April 17 around 9 a.m.

Chickens do it, goats do it, people do it, even trees and bushes do it … bully.

Being aggressive to weaker individuals seems to be part of the evolutionary strategy, in general.

Tai Asks Why: Why Is The Night Sky So Dark – When It Is Full Of Stars?

By • Mar 29, 2021
Tai Asks Why: Why Is The Night Sky So Dark – When It Is Full Of Stars?

It’s been asked by Greek Monks in the 6th century, Johannes Kepler in the 17th century and Edgar Allen Poe in the 19th century.

In the year 1823, a doctor named Wilhelm Olbers looked at the night sky and wondered: if we’re surrounded by so many stars, why is the night sky so dark? Now, 300 hundred years later, Tai asks the same question and he’s searching the universe for answers.

Tai Asks Why: How Did Some Animals Survive The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Strike?

By • Mar 25, 2021

Tai has been thinking a lot about how it is all going to end … the earth becoming a rock in the middle of space.

Tai looks to the past to predict future. Three quarters of the plant and animals species couldn’t survive the last mass extinction but some did. Why?

Tai Asks Why: What Is Déjà Vu?

By • Mar 17, 2021

You’re just going through your day, doing your normal stuff then – WHOA! an overwhelming feeling; You’ve done this before, but you haven’t, but you feel like you have – but you haven’t … Déjà Vu!

What is Déjà Vu? Is it good? is it bad? Why does it happen? What’s going on in our brain?

Explore More Of Life's Mysteries With Season 2 Of 'Tai Asks Why'

By • Mar 11, 2021
Explore More Of Life’s Mysteries With Season 2 Of 'Tai Asks Why' on Montana Public Radio

To help launch season 2 of Tai Asks Why on MTPR, Tai Poole the host will be joining us live during the Children’s Corner this Saturday March 13 at 8:30 a.m. We will find out why his voice sounds different, how he has survived the COVID-19 pandemic and … ? Tune in to discover what follows.

Then at 9 a.m. it’s Tai’s first episode of season 2 of Tai Asks Why: “What are animals saying to each other?” we may learn to speak duck … or not! Quack!

Summer Camp's Still On With Storyline Online

By • Jul 10, 2020

Have “S’more” fun and join Storyline Online Summer Camp!

A resource for kids and parents, Storyline Online Summer Camp was created by Storyline Online to keep everyone in touch while staying engaged in reading. It’s also a way for kids to share their favorite stories during “a summer unlike any summer on record!”

'Tai Asks Why': What Happens After We Die?

By • Feb 21, 2020
'Tai Asks Why': What happens after we die.
CBC

“I want to talk about death. About two years ago my grandpa died, I miss him a lot," Tai says. "My grandmother tells me that In the Vietnamese tradition, after a person dies, their soul is kinda’ disoriented for exactly 49 days, but what happens after the 49 days, were does he go?"

In this week’s ‘Tai Asks Why’, Tai turns from science and turns to religion to explore this ultimate human question.

Explore Life's Mysteries With 'Tai Asks Why'

By • Feb 21, 2020
Tai Asks Why is an award-winning podcast from the CBC for kids and families.
CBC

Is there a brain in our gut? How do we fix climate change? Which is cooler, zero or infinity? What happens after we die? Why do we dream? What is love? There are so many good questions out there; the mysteries about life, the world ... about us. Tai Poole is trying to find answers to them.

Pea Green Boat is exploring six of these questions this with the award-winning CBC Podcast Tai Asks Why.

'Tai Asks Why': Ask Tai Why

By • Dec 5, 2019
Tai Asks Why is an award-winning podcast from the CBC for kids and families.
CBC

The tables are turned this week during Tai Asks Why. Tai answers listener questions, like: Is there such a thing as complete silence? Why is the sun hot? How do we really know we exist? Why are video games so violent? What is fear? Who invented the English language? What is time?

Listeners ask Tai why this week on Children’s Corner, Saturday Dec. 14 at 9 a.m., on the CBC podcast 'Tai Asks Why,' here on Montana Public Radio

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