Today is Thursday, March 16, 2023, the 82nd day of the year with 283 days remaining until the end of the year. Here is everything you need to know about today’s programs on KNCT, but first…
National Geographic Kids serves up tons of incredible facts and mind-boggling tidbits to wow your friends and family!
Did you know that a giraffe’s eye is as big as a Ping-Pong ball? Or that about 19 million hot dogs are sold at major league baseball games every year? Or that there is only one bone in your body that’s not connected to another one? There’s a lot to know, and National Geographic Kids is here to help.
Based on favorites from the National Geographic Kids magazine, this book is chock-full of fascinating facts, silly stats, and catchy little knowledge nuggets in all kinds of awesome categories, from amphibians to black holes to the gold rush. Special features include Extreme Weirdness, Strange Places, What’s the Difference, and more. Bold, colorful photographs in a supersize format and spectacular information create a winning combination for curious kids who can’t wait to learn more about the world.
YOU CAN LEARN MORE MIND-BLOWING FACTS LIKE THESE:
- The Amazon is so dense with vegetation it can take 10 minutes for rain to reach the ground.
- Basketball was first played using soccer balls.
- You can taste garlic with your feet.
- It takes 90 people to fly the biggest balloons in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
- Alpaca’s spit at one another when angry.
Emily Fego, assistant editor for the National Geographic Kids Books team, stopped by to share fun and off-beat facts about our world and answered questions like:
- This book is filled with so many delightful, odd facts. For instance, I just learned that there is only one bone in your body that’s not connected to another one and that your funny bone isn’t a bone at all! These two quirky bits of information make our world all the more interesting. Where does your team find these things?
- Can you share some of the most unusual facts that you discovered for this book?
- What do you really like about working on books for kids?
- Your mom is an elementary school teacher, did you grow up learning all sorts of weird facts about the world?
- Were you interested in science and nature as a kid?
- How can parents foster an appreciation for the wonders of our world including some of the strange and unusual things?
The Moon creeps up on the brightest point of light in the night sky tonight: Venus, the “evening star.” Venus stands above the Moon as they come into view. The gap between them will shrink as they set, a couple of hours later.
StarDate airs every weekday at 5:57 am, 4:57 pm, and on weekends at 8:20 am.
The Sound of Texas – Grita Yells in Ft. Davis
The Sound of Texas airs every weekday at 6:30 am and 12:30 pm.
Fjords are deep valleys with steep sides, formed by glaciers. They’re usually on the coasts of continents and filled with water.
Over the past five million years, glaciers have migrated over continents then melted back, nearly 50 times.
Modern fjords formed during the last glacial advance, from around 100,000 to 20,000 years ago, when glaciers covered a quarter of all land on Earth.
Since so much water was locked up in glaciers, sea level was 400 feet lower than today.
Credit: Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory, using data provided courtesy of the NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan Aster Science Team, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
EarthDate airs every weekday at 9:30 am, 3:30 pm, and weekends at 10:30 am.
Science and the Sea – Nautical Nomenclature
If you stand with outstretched arms, it likely means you’re about to give somebody a hug. But it could also mean that you’re showing them the length of a fathom — a unit that’s been used to measure the depth of the sea for centuries. It’s one of several measurements developed for maritime use that are still around today.
Science and the Sea airs every weekday at 10:30 am, 2:30 pm, and weekends at 11:30 am.
The National Film Board of Canada honored Oscar Peterson with a short film, “Begone Dull Care”, in 1949. It was directed by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Using drawn-on-film animation, McLaren and Lambart paint and scratch directly onto film stock to create a visual representation of Oscar Peterson’s jazz music.
SoundBeat airs every weekday at 11:30 am and 1:30pm.
Dan Hull joins us every Thursday at 6:15 pm for the i14 Sports Report. This show provides commentary & coverage of local high school sports up and down the i14 corridor in Central Texas. Dan has been a local high school sports broadcaster since 1991 and was KNCT’s Program Director for over 20 years.
Beginning at 7 pm, KNCT presents part two of “The Emergence of Emmylou Harris.” The remarkable musical journey of Emmylou Harris is explored in this two-hour version of a special from music documentarian Paul Ingles. Guests include musicians Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, Sara Watkins, Shawn Colvin, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Cooper and David Gans and writers and scholars Ann Powers, Anthony DeCurtis, Holly George-Warren, Mark Kemp and Beverly Keel. Also archival interviews with Emmylou Harris. 50 songs featuring Emmylou are sampled.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone that all of the amazing programs and beautiful music you enjoy on Simply Beautiful 91.3, KNCT-FM is made possible by donations from our listeners. You can donate anytime by visiting our website at KNCT.org.
And while any amount is appreciated, did you know that if you donate $10 or more today you could could receive The Very Best of Dan Fogelberg CD:
Track List:
1. Longer (Album Version)
2. Make Love Stay (Single Version)
3. Heart Hotels (Album Version)
4. Same Old Lang Syne (Album Version)
5. The Power of Gold
6. Hard to Say
7. Phoenix (Album Version)
8. Part of the Plan
9. Run for the Roses
10. Missing You (Single Version)
11. Rhythm of the Rain
12. The Language of Love
13. There’s a Place in the World for a Gambler
14. Leader of the Band / Washington Post March; Leader of the Band\ Washington Post March
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