In 1911, a man by the name of Vincenzo Peruggia hid in the Louvre after closing. He went into a gallery, took a small Renaissance portrait off the wall and the following morning, he walked out with it under his cloak. That theft brought The Mona Lisa out of the museum and into pop culture. This week as it is back to school season, we thought it might be fun to cover a great historical heist and a new middle grade non fiction book telling the story that is stranger than fiction. We had a special guest this week as Nicholas Day, author of The Mona Lisa Vanishes participated in a rapid fire "Fact or Fake" segment telling us some fun facts and dispelling myths about the most famous painting in the world. Check out The Mona Lisa Vanishes on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Mona-Lisa-Vanishes-Legendary-Celebrity/dp/0593643844/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2OQSTJ5QBKOZE&keywords=the+mona+lisa+vanishes&qid=1693878096&sprefix=the+mona+lisa%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-1 or wherever you get your books. If you're enjoying Rainbow Puppy Science Lab, check out other great shows from Airwave Media like Art Smart, Reach: a Space Podcast for Kids, Tumble, What if World, Who ARTed Rainbow Puppy Science Lab is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: [email protected]

For our season finale, we decided to go further than our podcast has ever gone before. This week we covered NASA's Apollo missions which sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 70s. If you're enjoying Rainbow Puppy Science Lab, check out other great shows from Airwave Media like Art Smart, Reach: a Space Podcast for Kids, Tumble, What if World, Who ARTed Thank you to our sponsor Kids’ Chemical Solutions and their chemistry comic book series filled with colorful characters and exciting storylines. Order now at www.kidschemicalsolutions.com Rainbow Puppy Science Lab is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: [email protected]

This week's episode is about Pokemon. Learn about how Pikachu and others were developed and the interesting connection between Pokemon and the video games like Mario and Zelda which made Nintendo one of the greatest home game companies on the planet. Thank you to our sponsor Kids’ Chemical Solutions and their chemistry comic book series filled with colorful characters and exciting storylines. Order now at www.kidschemicalsolutions.com Unfortunately, we had some technical difficulties with this episode, so we shared an episode of Who ARTed: Weekly Art History for All Ages to cover the stuff that got lost in our recording session. Rainbow Puppy Science Lab is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: [email protected] If you're enjoying Rainbow Puppy Science Lab, check out other great shows from Airwave Media like Art Smart, Reach: a Space Podcast for Kids, Tumble, What if World, Who ARTed

This week's episode is all about chocolate. Learn about the ancient roots of chocolate as it started in Central America and how Hershey became one of the biggest chocolate candy makers in the world. If you're enjoying Rainbow Puppy Science Lab, check out other great shows from Airwave Media like Art Smart, Reach: a Space Podcast for Kids, Tumble, What if World, Who ARTed Thank you to our sponsor Kids’ Chemical Solutions and their chemistry comic book series filled with colorful characters and exciting storylines. Order now at www.kidschemicalsolutions.com Rainbow Puppy Science Lab is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: [email protected]

This week's mini episode is all about dinosaurs. Learn when they lived, how they went extinct, and how they get those strange and hard to pronounce names. Thank you to our sponsor Kids’ Chemical Solutions and their chemistry comic book series filled with colorful characters and exciting storylines. Order now at www.kidschemicalsolutions.com If you're enjoying Rainbow Puppy Science Lab, check out other great shows from Airwave Media like Art Smart, Reach: a Space Podcast for Kids, Tumble, What if World, Who ARTed Rainbow Puppy Science Lab is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: [email protected]

This week's episode is all about America's national parks. Find out which was the first national park, where you can find the world's biggest tree and more. In this episode, you'll learn some fun facts about The Great Smoky Mountains, Mammoth Cave, Yellowstone and Sequoia National Parks. We also learned about Ocmulgee Mounds which will hopefully soon become our 64th national park. Learn more at https://www.ocmulgeepark.org/ Thank you to our sponsor Kids’ Chemical Solutions and their chemistry comic book series filled with colorful characters and exciting storylines. Order now at www.kidschemicalsolutions.com If you're enjoying Rainbow Puppy Science Lab, check out other great shows from Airwave Media like Art Smart, Reach: a Space Podcast for Kids, Tumble, What if World, Who ARTed Rainbow Puppy Science Lab is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: [email protected]

Dogs are long said to be a person's best friend. Learn some fun facts about the different ways dogs help people today. Also, learn the true story of a dog that saved 92 passengers and crew from a sinking ship in 1919. If you're enjoying Rainbow Puppy Science Lab, check out other great shows from Airwave Media like Art Smart, Reach: a Space Podcast for Kids, Tumble, What if World, Who ARTed Thank you to our sponsor Kids’ Chemical Solutions and their chemistry comic book series filled with colorful characters and exciting storylines. Order now at www.kidschemicalsolutions.com Rainbow Puppy Science Lab is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: [email protected]

This week's episode is all about board games. Learn a bit about some classic games like Chess and Monopoly as well as the amazing story of how British military intelligence used a special edition of a board game to help soldiers escape from a POW camp in World War 2. We also mentioned the amazing cooperative fantasy game developed by a father daughter team. To learn more about CoraQuest, head over to www.coraquest.com During this episode, I mentioned that during the remote learning phase of the pandemic, I had my students create their own video games. Check out this YouTube video for my instructions if you are interested in creating your own game. https://youtu.be/mFIGohsRRYc If you're enjoying Rainbow Puppy Science Lab, check out other great shows from Airwave Media like Art Smart, Reach: a Space Podcast for Kids, Tumble, What if World, Who ARTed Rainbow Puppy Science Lab is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: [email protected]

As we are starting summer vacation, we thought it would be nice to beat the summer heat with a mini episode focused on one of the coolest places on earth, the Arctic. Learn some fun facts about arctic foxes, polar bears, where the name the arctic comes from and more. If you're enjoying Rainbow Puppy Science Lab, check out other great shows from Airwave Media like Art Smart, Reach: a Space Podcast for Kids, Tumble, What if World, Who ARTed Rainbow Puppy Science Lab is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: [email protected]

This week's episode is all about roller coasters. Learn a bit about kinetic and potential energy as it is applied to one of the most thrilling experiences in the world. Find out how roller coasters evolved from Catherine the Great's desire to go sledding in the summer, and a whole lot more. In this week's Fact or Fake: Doctors in the Orlando Florida area have been writing prescriptions for patients to ride Disney’s Tower of Terror ride. They say that patients suffering from a blockage in the digestive system can have it scared out of them. They say the sudden freefall has a roughly 66% success rate at dislodging an obstruction.  Or One of the earliest American roller coasters was a coal mine. The Mauch Chunck Switchback Railway was built in 1827 to haul coal between two mines. People saw the coal trains zooming down hill at up to 50 miles per hour and thought, why should the coal have all the fun and tourists started paying to ride. Listen to the episode to find out which is the true fact and which is just something silly and strange we made up. If you're enjoying Rainbow Puppy Science Lab, check out other great shows from Airwave Media like Art Smart, Reach: a Space Podcast for Kids, Tumble, What if World, Who ARTed Rainbow Puppy Science Lab is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: [email protected]