Welcome to Kent District Library’s Stump the Librarian Podcast where your friendly neighborhood librarians put their research skills to the test answering questions from you, the listener! Join Jill and Liz every other Wenesday to learn new and exciting information. Think you have a question that can stump us? Visit www.kdl.org/stump to submit a question of your own!
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Welcome to Kent District Library’s Stump the Librarian Podcast where your friendly neighborhood librarians put their research skills to the test answering questions from you, the listener! Join Jill and Liz every other Wenesday to learn new and exciting information. Think you have a question that can stump us? Visit www.kdl.org/stump to submit a question of your own!
The Booger Episode
In this episode we answer the questions “How do trees talk to each other?” and “Why are boogers green?” We also share a fact of the day from a Patron Services librarian and share a graphic novel about a student struggling with math. To submit your own question, go to KDL.org/Stump. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Joel’s Fact of the Day: The Animal Toolkit by Steve Jenkins
https://kdl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S174C1179760
Liz’s book recommendation: Very Bad at Math by Hope Larson
https://kdl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S174C1179760
Concerning talking trees:
https://greenpop.org/how-do-trees-communicate/
https://www.nationalforests.org/blog/underground-mycorrhizal-network
https://nhm.org/stories/take-moment-listen-trees
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/04/993430007/trees-talk-to-each-other-mother-tree-ecologist-hears-lessons-for-people-too
Wood Wide Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWOqeyPIVRo
The Magic of Forests by Vicky Woodgate: https://kdl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S174C966816
Concerning boogers:
https://kidshealth.org/Advocate/en/kids/booger.html#:~:text=Yeah%2C%20we're%20talking%20about,name%20for%20nose%20mucus%3A%20snot.
https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2020/08/marvels-mucus-phlegm
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/mucus
"mucus." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 17 Sep. 2010. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/mucus/54123. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
"mucous membrane." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 6 Feb. 2020. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/mucous-membrane/54122. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
Stump the Librarian
Welcome to Kent District Library’s Stump the Librarian Podcast where your friendly neighborhood librarians put their research skills to the test answering questions from you, the listener! Join Jill and Liz every other Wenesday to learn new and exciting information. Think you have a question that can stump us? Visit www.kdl.org/stump to submit a question of your own!
