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Rainbows! How They Form And Why We See Them

By Laura Dimock

Published June 10, 2021 at 6:18 PM CDT

Happy Pride, Short Wave Listeners! Here's a fun episode from our archives to celebrate the month!

It's another episode where we take a concept you were maybe taught in school as a kid, but didn't really learn or just forgot.

Short Wave producer Thomas Lu and host Maddie Sofia go on a journey to explore what a rainbow exactly is and how we see them...with some help from Kerstin Nordstrom, professor of physics at Mount Holyoke College.

Email us your Back-To-School ideas at [email protected].

This episode was produced and reported by Thomas Lu, edited by Viet Le and fact-checked by Ariela Zebede. The audio engineer for this episode was J Czys.

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