I Slept Through Science

Seasonal allergies plague so many of us, but why aren't we usually allergic to our houseplants? And why don't houseplants usually produce much pollen? What even is pollen, anyway? This week Cheryl get...

10 Okt 202220min

It's healthy to have houseplants, right? But how healthy is it? What makes it healthy? Do houseplants produces more oxygen for us to breath or clean the air from "toxins?" Cheryl and Ryan talk about t...

3 Okt 202225min

Cheryl has a vine plant that has an interesting pattern of leaf size: when the vine grows horizontally, the leaves are relatively small, but when the vine grows vertically, the leaves are significantl...

26 Sep 202226min

Continuing to probe Cheryl's questions about her houseplants, this week she asks about root bound plants: what causes it and why is it bad for her houseplants. To answer the question Ryan will talk ab...

19 Sep 202226min

Building off of last week's lesson about overwatering, Cheryl asks about why leaves turn yellow when "bad" things happen to the plant and whether or not it's connected to why leaves change color in th...

12 Sep 202223min

Cheryl is into growing houseplants and realized that she has lots of questions about how they work, so we're going to do a whole unit just on houseplants! This week we learn about how overwatering and...

5 Sep 202223min

In the last lesson of the color unit, Cheryl asks about the dress the "broke the internet" where people couldn't agree about whether it was white and gold or blue and black. To answer the question, Ry...

29 Aug 202231min

Cheryl asks a deeper question about color: what actually makes an object the color it appears? She applies what she's learned about different wavelengths of light to answer the question and along the ...

22 Aug 202227min