Little News Ears

It's September 3rd, 2022. BoxerBlu and Bram are back. We learn that Bram will seek a behaviorist for a compulsion that he has and about the family's summer...

It's October 11, 2022. Paxton is back with a podcast with 'world kidlines...

We were inspired by The Guardian's article about using sugar kelp to combat climate change so we are rerunning an episode of Boxerblu and Bram that teaches us about The Johnny Appleseed of Sugar Kelp!

https://www.theguardian...

It's October 1, 2022.  BoxerBlu and Bram teach us about Anela Analeigh, the youngest black person to go to medical school in the US; the amazing story of Frank Oz's father's Hitler puppet; the life of Adam Wade, America's first African American game show host; Putin's efforts to use propaganda in schools; and the effects of what scientists are calling The Anthropause.

It's November 4, 2022. BoxerBlu and Bram are back teaching news for kids about a dog lawyer, new studies on what helps bridge the gap between poor and rich people, an 8th grade class helping an accused witch from Salem lose her witch status, a chess-playing robot in Russia breaking a 7 year-olds finger, and the National Statuary Hall Collection showcasing Amelia Earhart.

It's December 2nd, 2022. BoxerBlu and Bram are back to teach kids about superstitions surrounding the death of important people (like Queen Elizabeth II) and their bees; the death of Rommy Hunt Revson (inventor of the scrunchie); The Space Force's new hymn (Semper Supra); a ten year-old painter who is rocking it (Andres Valencia); and Camp Indigo, a summer camp for trans youth.

It's January 13, 2023. BoxerBlu and Bram are back with news for kids a different way.  They focus on people who have surgery on their legs to be taller, a new video game called Trombone Champ, Bikers Against Child Abuse, bank robberies going down in popularity, and Virgin Australia offering $145,000 to people who choose the middle seat. 

It's February 3, 2023. Boxerblu and Bram are back.  They are teaching kids about mass produced furniture creating too much waste in landfills, teachers sneakily teaching their students about climate change, the life and death of the comedian known as Gallagher, a new set of blood groups, and a ten year-old who got a tattoo and caused her mom and the tattoo artist to get arrested. 

It's March 9, 2023. BoxerBlu and Bram teaches kids about Edgar Dworsky, who investigates how companies sneakily make their products smaller; evidence that Covid-19 can be transmitted from dead bodies; dogs smelling time; the world's oldest known pair of jeans being found in a shipwreck; and the death of Don Christopher, the garlic king.

It's April 2023. BoxerBlu and Bram are back to teach us about news for kids a different way. In this episode we learn about Daniel Larsen, a senior who proves a key theorem about carmichael numbers; the US cancer rate falling; the restaging of Robert Whitman's 'happening' called 'American Moon;' the streetcar boom and how Warren Buffet doesn't want it to happen in Omaha; and the death of Balkrishna Doshi, a modernist Indian architect.