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  Photo by Ceeseven licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Ever wanted to try something delicious and fun? You don't have to wait for breakfast to enjoy this sweet treat! Check out the bubble waffle! A bubble waffle is a Chinese sweet snack made in a special waffle iron. It includes eggs, flour, milk and sugar.  Read on to find out why you may want to sink your teeth into one! Where were bubble waffles invented? This is how bubble waffles were traditionally made over a charcoal fire! Pouring the batter into half of the iron, the other half of the iron sits on top of the charcoal fire. Phot...

GEOFF BRUMFIEL, HOST: Hello. Geoff Brumfiel here steering the great ship SHORT WAVE. And I'm joined today by special guest Kat Lonsdorf. Hi, Kat. KAT LONSDORF, BYLINE: Hey there. BRUMFIEL: So, Kat, we've brought you on the show today because you were present at a big reopening last year. LONSDORF: That's right. I won an Above the Fray Fellowship to visit the evacuated villages and towns around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, where you might remember there were a series of meltdowns after a tsunami hit it in 2011. BRUMFIEL: Yes, I remember very well. LONSDORF: Yeah. And I...

RHITU CHATTERJEE, HOST: It's been a big week for climate change. President Biden is gathering with world leaders to talk about how to prevent its most catastrophic effects. And two of NPR's very own climate reporters are here to talk about how that might work. Lauren Sommer. Hi, Lauren. LAUREN SOMMER, BYLINE: Hi. REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE: Hey there. CHATTERJEE: Hello. Now, climate change wasn't really a priority in the last four years of the Trump administration, so what's the main goal of this White House climate summit? HERSHER: This is basically America's way of saying, we're back. Climat...

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: Hey, Maddie. So listen; I have a question for you. SOFIA: OK. GREENFIELDBOYCE: If I asked you what comes to mind when you think of lightning and life, what would you say? SOFIA: Lightning and life (laughter) - maybe Frankenstein. You know, that lightning got them where they were going. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "FRANKENSTEIN") COLIN CLIVE: (As Henry Frankenstein) It's alive. It's alive. It's alive. It's alive. GREENFIELDBOYCE: All right. Yeah, that's what everybody thinks of. But today, I have a different story about lightning and life. And this on...