Leilani Power, otherwise known as Lani, lives in Kissimmee, Florida and helps her brother and sister run a book review podcast called Book Power For Kids! She likes creating art and playing games, like chess and Dungeons & Dragons, the fantasy role playing game. Each week she connects with her cousin and aunt in St. Louis, drawing all sorts of things from frogs to robot chickens. When she isn’t drawing or doodling cats, bees and red pandas, you’ll find her curled up somewhere soft and cushy reading a book.
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Leilani Power
Straws save coral, eco-warrior grannies, Taylor breaks records,...
It’s the last straw for Florida coral, Swiss eco warrior grannies, Taylor breaks records (again), Indonesia’s spitting bird nests and the...
Apr 24, 2024 Episode 178
Centipede bot, highest bridge, 13-year-old hero, Japanese smile again
Georgia Tech’s centipede robot, world’s highest railway bridge, 13-year-old US hero, Japanese learn to smile again
May 24, 2023 Episode 152
Giant seaweed blob, JUICE rockets to Jupiter, NYC’s “rat...
Giant seaweed blob – sargassum – head to Florida, JUICE rockets to Jupiter, Sikhs celebrate Vaisakhi and New York’s “rat czar”
Apr 19, 2023 Episode 147
Best nature stories of 2022!
Best nature stories of 2022 from Indian cheetahs to Australia’s endangered koalas, Bangladesh oyster reef, carp to copi, Florida manatees and...
Dec 14, 2022 Episode 129
World Cup, Artemis rocket, Taylor’s tickets, Taiwan panda,...
World Cup 2022 kicks off, Artemis 1 rocket takes off, Taylor’s ticket woes, Taiwan’s peace panda dies, message in a bottle
Nov 23, 2022 Episode 126
Festive India, NASA crashes asteroid, fish name-change, TikTok...
Festive season in India is underway, NASA crashes asteroid, fish called carp changes name, TikTok in trouble, ukulele flight
Sep 28, 2022 Episode 118
All about space – Newsy Pooloozi’s space capsule!
All about space – our special space capsule with over 45 minutes of the whippiest, wackiest, most factual and fun space news from the last two...
Jul 13, 2022 Episode 107
Gun debate, sprouting moon soil, robot surgeons, football...
This week, Newsy Pooloozi gently decodes the US gun debate by exploring the various sides involved — the gun lobby led by the NRA, legislators...
Jun 1, 2022 Episode 101
Looking back and forward for 100th episode with special guest Mindy...
Looking back and forward for our 100th episode with super-duper special guest Mindy Thomas of Wow in the World helping us celebrate!
May 25, 2022 Episode 100
Happy St Paddy’s, latest on Ukraine, help Florida manatees,...
Find out how St Patrick’s day began, the latest on Ukraine, Florida manatees in trouble and story of slithery smuggler
Mar 16, 2022 Episode 90
India’s toxic air, Florida space launch, Sikhs celebrate, locusts...
Toxic air shuts schools in Delhi, special report from space launch, Sikhs celebrate Gurpurab and locusts on EU “novel food” list
Nov 17, 2021 Episode 73
Mega comet coming, Hollywood ups and downs, UK petrol crisis,...
Mega comet near sun in 10 years, box office highs but threat of workers strike, UK petrol crisis and Thailand’s taxi-top gardens
Oct 6, 2021 Episode 67
Flash floods, tuna is back, Asian Marvel, “out of the box” art
US flash flood havoc, tuna back from brink of extinction, first Asian superhero “marvels” box office, Japanese artist “out of the box”
Sep 8, 2021 Episode 63
Olympic joys, India hockey triumph, coral lifesaver, underwater museum
Olympic joy and good sportsmanship, India’s hockey triumphs, medicine for diseased coral and underwater sculpture museum
Aug 11, 2021 Episode 59
Shipping chaos, portable space center, Mississippi mud and mummy march
Cargo ship troubles, space center on-the-go, how The Mississippi got clean, Nat’l Poetry Month and march of the mummies
Apr 7, 2021 Episode 41