Tales of Discovery

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Science stories for young people. Each of these 5-10 minute podcasts presents discoveries and the people who made them in a fun, entertaining and light-hearted fashion. At least, that’s the intention. Transcripts are uploaded to scitales.wordpress.com, so if you'd like to read stories aloud yourse…

Tales of Discovery


    • Sep 28, 2015 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 7m AVG DURATION
    • 4 EPISODES


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    Latest episodes from Tales of Discovery

    Keeping It Fresh

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2015 10:39


    How did we end up storing food in cans?

    Donald And The Bats

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2015 9:05


    Donald Griffin figured out that bats hunt using sound - but how? Listen in to find out! Transcript available at https://scitales.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/episode-3-donald-and-the-bats/ if you'd prefer to read it aloud yourself.

    Duria Antiquior

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2015 4:36


    An immersive exploration of the prehistoric world. Imagine if you went for a swim in the time of the dinosaurs. What might you see? The print 'Duria Antiquior' (the image accompanying this podcast)was painted in 1830 and is the first picture anyone created of a prehistoric scene, using evidence from fossils. The picture is based on fossils found by Mary Anning - the subject of the previous episode.

    Mary And The Dinosaurs

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2015 6:22


    Tales of discovery - science stories for young people. Episode one explores how we know so much about dinosaurs!

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