Want to get your kids away from “screen staring” for a while? NPR’s very successful podcast Wow in the World just might be the answer — and 40 new episodes are being rolled out starting November 6. The show was launched in May of 2017, and has topped the kids and family podcast charts, reaching over five million downloads and averaging around 200,000-300,000 downloads per week. Through comedy and conversation, hosts Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas guide curious kids and their grown-ups “away from their screens, inside their brains, out into space, and deep into the coolest new stories in science and technology.”
Co-host Guy Raz said, “Kids and parents are looking for an alternative to screens — a fun, exciting, silly (and educational) way to spend time in the car, at the breakfast table, or even hanging out at home. That’s what Wow in the World is. We think of it as a cartoon for the ear but a cartoon that takes kids and grown-ups deep into some of the most amazing scientific discoveries of our time. Mindy and I pore through peer-reviewed academic journals to figure out how to translate the amazing work of scientists into a kid-friendly adventures through space and time.”
