Fungus Among Us

Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS On this episode of The Children’s Hour we explore mushrooms with mycology educator and author, Peter McCoy. We’ll learn about how the fruits of fungi are the smallest parts of these incredible organisms, which...

Earthquakes & Volcanoes

Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreThis time on The Children’s Hour, we’re learning all about earthquakes and volcanoes with Dr. Mousumi Roy, a University of New Mexico professor of Physics and Astronomy with a specialty in...

Porcupines

Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreThis week on The Children’s Hour we learn about porcupines from the leading researchers in New Mexico, kids in the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Project. Photos from BEMP Find out about these elusive giant...

Under-Appreciated Animals

Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Does an animal have to be adorable to be appreciated? This week on The Children’s Hour, we’re covering under-appreciated animals.  How do common animals like snakes, ants, cockroaches and others...

Kids Online

Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreKids are online so much of their lives these days, so we wanted to learn more about internet safety and security. With us on this episode of The Children’s Hour is award winning novelist and...

The Brain

Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS This week on The Children’s Hour, we’ll poke around brain science with neuroscientists Nick Aase and Ingrid Lane from The Mind Research Network at the University of New Mexico. Find out how our brains work,...

Drying Out

Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreThis week on The Children’s Hour, we are joined by Laura Paskus, a climate change and drought author, and environmental journalist with New Mexico PBS. She released a book, At the Precipice: New...

Frogs & Toads

Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreThis time on The Children’s Hour, we learn about frogs and toads, with Senior Zoologist of the ABQ Biopark Zoo’s Amphibians and Reptiles, Josh Butler. Josh showed us the Colorado River Toad...

Growing With Kids

Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | MoreThis time on The Children’s Hour we’re growing with kids, in a visit with farmer Joseph Brophy Toledo from the Flower Hill Institute in Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico. We learn about their farming...