Thursday, March 13, 2025

Your daily kids news podcast.

What’s a tariff and why should you care?; Dino-prints in Aussie playground; Marvel’s Black Widow gets cranky; and Saturn has all the moons.

America is slapping a 25% extra charge (a “tariff”) on Aussie steel and aluminium. That means it’s more expensive for American companies to buy from us, which could affect jobs in Australia. Economics in action!

Turns out Saturn has way more moons than we thought—128 more, to be exact! That brings its total to 274, leaving Jupiter’s 95 moons in the dust.

Imagine finding dinosaur footprints in your school’s playground! That’s what happened in Queensland, where a rock sitting in a school office for 20 years turned out to have 66 dinosaur tracks on it!

Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson is fed up with fake videos using her face and voice without permission! These deepfakes can trick people into believing things that aren’t true. She’s calling for new laws to stop them

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