Stump the Librarian

Episode 4 - Body Surfing Hippos

Why is the 4th Episode of Stump the Librarian called “Body Surfing Hippos??” Well, you’ll have to listen to your friendly neighborhood librarians, Emily and Courtnei as well as the librarian behind the curtain Jill to find out! Join us this episode to hear the answers to three amazing questions. “Who is the person who has lived the longest?” “Do pigs go in ponds?” and “How long does it take lemons to go bad after being picked?”

In this episode, Emily explores animals who swim, Courtnei thinks about old age, and Jill shows why research helps with baking. And don’t forget to join us every other Wednesday as we try to answer your curious questions and see if it’s possible to stump a librarian! You can submit a question via http://kdl.org/stump. We would love to hear what questions are on your minds! Don’t forget to subscribe to our podcast wherever you prefer to listen so you never miss an episode. You can also reach us by email at Stumpthelibrarian@kdl.org.  

Interested in learning and exploring more about this episode's curious questions?  You can always use any of the databases KDL has to offer with your library card. Just go to https://kdl.org/online-resources/ to find the best database for more information on the answer to your question! And don’t forget the books! Our catalog is full of amazing books that are filled with fascinating information. Just visit https://kdl.bibliocommons.com/ to search for your next great nonfiction read! 

 

Concerning living... 

Eckart, Kim. (2021, July 1). How Long Can a Person Live? The 221st Century May See a Record Breaker. University of Washington. https://www.washington.edu/news/2021/07/01/how-long-can-a-person-live-the-21st-century-may-see-a-record-breaker/ 

Willingham, Emily. (2021, May 25). Humans Could Live Up to 150 Years, New research Suggests. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-could-live-up-to-150-years-new-research-suggests/ 

Concerning pigs... 

(n.d.). The Evolution of Whales. Understanding Evolution https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_03. 

Britt, Robert Roy. (2004, January 19). Unlikely Cousins Whales and Hippos. Live Science. 

https://www.livescience.com/102-cousins-whales-hippos.html 

University of Calgary. (2009, March 19). Is The Hippopotamus The Closest Living Relative To The  Whale?. ScienceDaily.  www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318153803.htm

Baron, David. (2012, February 7). Surfing Hippos, Lacking Tourists. BBC World News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-16686544?piano-modal 

Rom. (2017, August 24). Hippos and Whales, Unlikely Cousins. Royal Ontario Museum. https://www.rom.on.ca/en/blog/hippos-and-whales-unlikely-cousins 

Twowheelednomad. (2017, July 22). Are Whales Like Hippos? Juneau Whale Watch. https://www.juneauwhalewatch.com/whales-like-hippos/ 

Mukherjee, S., Appel, A., Duckworth, J.W., Sanderson, J., Dahal, S., Willcox, D.H.A., Herranz Muñoz, V., Malla, G., Ratnayaka, A., Kantimahanti, M., Thudugala, A., Thaung, R. & Rahman, H. 2016. Prionailurus viverrinus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T18150A50662615. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T18150A50662615.en. 

 

Concerning lemons... 

Encyclopædia Britannica. (n.d.). Lemon. Britannica School. Retrieved July 27, 2021, from https://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/lemon/47727 

 

Episode 3 - Don‘t Eat the Nuclear Pasta

Stump the Librarian Episode 3 – Do Not Eat the Nuclear Pasta 

The curious librarians of KDL’s Stump the Librarian Podcast are back with a third episode filled with quizzical questions and interesting information. In this episode, our librarians talk about all things related to that mystical peculiar place we like to call Outer Space. Join us as we ponder if life may exist outside of planet Earth and what that life may look like, how many planets there are in the entire universe, and what the hardest rock of all is (f it’s even a rock). Did these questions stump our librarians? Well, you’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out!  

You can find a new episode of Stump the Librarian every other Wednesday morning at https://stumpthelibrarian.podbean.com/ or wherever you listen to podcasts! Make sure you subscribe so you never miss an exciting episode. If you have a curious question that you would like us to answer you can submit it via at https://kdl.org/stump-the-librarian/. 

 

Concerning rocks... 

Daley, J. (2018, September 20). The universe's strongest material is a cosmic lasagna. Smithsonian.com. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/universes-strongest-material-cosmic-lasagna-180970358/#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20suggests%20that,billion%20times%20stronger%20than%20steel&text=Humans%20have%20looked%20for%20harder,steel%2C%20composites%20and%20now%20graphene.&text=Just%20like%20campfires%20and%20goldfish%2C%20stars%20eventually%20die. 

King, H. M. (n.d.). Mohs hardness scale. Geology and Earth Science News and Information. https://geology.com/minerals/mohs-hardness-scale.shtml. 

Nuclear pasta, the hardest known substance in the universe. Newsroom. (2018, September 28). https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/nuclear-pasta-hardest-known-substance-universe-289729. 

 

Concerning life in space... 

Howells, K. (n.d.). Life on Mars: Your questions answered. The Planetary Society. https://www.planetary.org/articles/life-on-mars-your-questions-answered. 

NASA. (2021, April 2). What is an Exoplanet? NASA. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/what-is-an-exoplanet/overview/. 

 

Concerning the number of planets... 

NASA. (2019, June 26). Exploration. NASA. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/beyond/exploration/?page=0&per_page=10&order=launch_date%2Bdesc%2Ctitle%2Basc&search=&tags=Beyond%2BOur%2BSolar%2BSystem&category=33. 

 

Episode 2 - Whale Buffet Wednesdays

Welcome to the second episode of Stump the Librarian, a podcast where two librarians from Kent District Library, Emily and Courtnei, with a little help from the librarian behind the curtain, Jill, answer questions from curious listeners. Join us in this episode as we find the answers to which sea creatures can survive at the deepest depth of the ocean, why the temperature feels different in the sun and the shade, and how worms are able to survive being cut in half. Join us bi-weekly as we try to answer your curious questions and see if it’s possible to stump a librarian! 

Interested in learning and exploring more about this episode's curious questions? Here are some of the resources we used to help us answer your questions! You can always use any of the databases KDL has to offer with your library card. Just go to https://kdl.org/online-resources/ to find the best database for your question! 

 

Concerning life in the deep seas... 

How deep is the ocean? (2021, February 26). In National Ocean Service. Retrieved from https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceandepth.html 

Bobbe, S. (2019, July 3). Everything you need to know about sea pigs. In Ocean Conservancy. Retrieved from https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2019/07/03/everything-need-know-sea-pigs/ 

Fox-Skelly, J. (2015, January 29). What does it take to live at the bottom of the ocean?. In BBC Earth. Retrieved  
from https://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150129-life-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean 

Mariana Trench (2021). In National Geographic Deep Sea Challenge. Retrieved from  
http://www.deepseachallenge.com/the-expedition/mariana-trench/ 

NOAA, . (2021, February 26). How deep is the ocean?. In National Ocean Service. Retrieved from https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceandepth.html 

Water pressures at ocean depths (1998). In Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory. Retrieved from  
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/eoi/nemo1998/education/pressure.html 

Weiss, S. (2019). Ocean: Secrets of the deep. Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom: What on Earth Books. 

Welch, C. (2017, November 29). New Fish Species Lives 5 Miles Underwater—a Record. In National Geographic.  
Retrieved from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/deepest-sea-fish-identified- snailfish-pseudoliparis-swirei-spd 

 

Concerning life in the shade... 

Trying to Keep Cool? Here’s How Shade, Ocean Breeze Help. (July 7, 2013). In South Florida Sun Sentinel. Retrieved from 

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2013-07-07-fl-shady-breezy-temps-20130706-story.html 

Mead, M Nathaniel. “Benefits of sunlight: a bright spot for human health.” Environmental health perspectives vol. 116,4 (2008): A160-7. doi:10.1289/ehp.116-a160 

 

Concerning the life of worms... 

CBC/Radio Canada. (n.d.). 5 creatures that can grow back body PARTS | Cbc kids. CBCnews. https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/five-creatures-that-can-grow-back-body-parts.  

Dunlap, G., & Senft, R. (2019, February 26). Regeneration: What the axolotl can teach us about regrowing human limbs. Science in the News. https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/regeneration-axolotl-can-teach-us-regrowing-human-limbs/.  

Fong, J., & Paula Hewitt. (n.d.). More About Worms... And Related Classroom Activities. More about worms... and related classroom activities - Cornell composting. http://compost.css.cornell.edu/worms/.html.  

Langley, L. (2021, May 4). Pictures: 5 animals that REGROW body parts. Animals. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/axolotl-regrow-regeneration-body?loggedin=true.  

Learn, J. R. (2019, January 24). Complete axolotl genome could reveal the secret of regenerating tissues. Smithsonian.com. https://www.smithsmorewormsonianmag.com/science-nature/complete-axolotl-genome-could-reveal-secret-regenerating-tissues-180971335/.  

Murphy, H. (2019, March 20). Chop up a worm. it will regenerate. scientists figured out why. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/science/worm-regeneration.html.  

Quirós, G. (2018, November 6). These flatworms can regrow a body from a fragment. how do they do it and could we? NPR. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/06/663612981/these-flatworms-can-regrow-a-body-from-a-fragment-how-do-they-do-it-and-could-we.  

 

 

Episode 1 - Tigers, Robins, and Dogs, Oh My!

Welcome to Stump the Librarian, a podcast where two librarians from Kent District Library, Emily and Courtnei, with a little help from the librarian behind the curtain, Jill, answer questions from curious listeners. On our first episode we find the answers to why tigers have stripes, how robins care for their babies, and what the most popular dog breeds are around the world. Join us bi-weekly as we try to answer your curious questions and see if it’s possible to stump a librarian! 

Interested in learning and exploring more about this episode's curious questions? Here are some of the resources we used to help us answer your questions! You can always use any of the databases KDL has to offer with your library card. Just go to https://kdl.org/online-resources/ to find the best database for your question!  

Concerning Dogs: 

Resler, T. J. (2019). Dog breed guide the complete reference to your best friend fur-ever. Washington D.C.: National Geographic. 

Reisen, J. (2021, March 16). The Most Popular Dog Breeds of 2020. In American Kennel Club. Retrieved from https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/dog-breeds/the-most-popular-dog-breeds-of-2020/ 

The Most Popular Dog Breed in Every Country (2021). In Household Quotes. Retrieved from https://householdquotes.co.uk/most-popular-dog-breed/ 

Burke, A. (2020, April 24). How to Choose the Best Dog Food. In American Kennel Club. Retrieved from https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/nutrition/best-dog-food-choosing-whats-right-for-your-dog/ 

Wall, J. (2021, June 9). Are You Ready to Own a Dog? Expectations & Responsibilities. In Love Your Dog. Retrieved from https://www.loveyourdog.com/ready-for-dog/ 

 

Concerning Robins: 

American Robin (2019). In Journey North. Retrieved from https://journeynorth.org/tm/robin/facts_baby_robins.html 

Link, R. (n.d.). American Robin. In Seattle Audubon. Retrieved from https://seattleaudubon.org/learn/birds-of-wa/bird-facts/american-robin/ 

 

Concerning Tigers: 

"Tiger." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 2 Mar. 2021. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/tiger/72439. Accessed 22 Jun. 2021. 

 

"Coloration." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 24 Jan. 2019. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/coloration/109619#25418.toc. Accessed 22 Jun. 2021. 

“Protective Coloration.” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, Mar. 2021, p. 1.