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Hosted by Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff, in just 15-20 minutes, they will cover the coolest stuff that happened in the world that you may have missed. Science, progress, life-hacks, memes, exciting art, and hope. The antidote to depressing headlines. Smart stuff in podcast form. Cool news, as a service.
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Solar Powered Car, Loch Ness Hunters Ask NASA for Help, and TDIH - The London Bridge is Moved
A car fueled by the sun is closer to becoming a consumer reality, a group of monster hunters appeal to an unlikely agency for assistance, and on This Day in History, London Bridge is falling down … but springing back to life in the American desert.
Solar Powered Car (GNN) (Aptera)
Loch Ness and NASA (Sky News)
London Bridge (History)
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Possible Blindness Cure, Weird Wednesday, and TDIH - The Mustang is Introduced
A long-term plan to cure many individuals afflicted with blindness, Weird Wednesday brings us a new, collaborative version of Scrabble, cats in a palace, and a hippo walking through suburbia. Plus, on This Day in History, the first Ford Mustang is introduced to the public.
Blindness Cure (Brisbane Times)
Collaborative Scrabble (BBC)
Palace Cats (AP News)
Escaped Hippo (UPI)
Lawnmower GWR (UPI)
Mustang (Ford) (Motor Biscuit) (Motor Trend)
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"Scientific" Marriage Pact, Stunning Pompeii Discovery, and TDIH - Annie Oakley Breaks a Shooting Record
A scientific pact for lasting love devised by one Stanford student, a stunning find in Pompeii, and on This Day in History – sharpshooter Annie Oakley breaks yet another record.
Marriage Pact (Fox News)
Pompeii Discovery (EuroNews)
Annie Oakley (PBS) (Patch)
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The Surprising Benefit to Fish Swimming in Schools, A Rare Medical Condition is Cured for the First Time & TDIH: The Man Who Walked Backwards Across the US (and why he did it)
Fish Swim in Schools for Stealth–as 100 Fish Make Less Noise Than an Individual Swimming Alone (Supplemental: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/ad3a4e)
World-first treatment at Staffordshire Children’s Hospital at Royal Stoke for teenager with rare condition
Heroes, Heroines, and History: The Backward Walk Around the World (Supplemental 1: PLENNIE WINGO - Wired For Adventure, Supplemental 2: Ben Montgomery's 'Man Who Walked Backward' lets readers step into history)
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Screaming Frogs, Cicada STDs (not a typo), Chechnya's Strange Music Ban & TDIH: The First Human in Space
Frogs are screaming - we just can't hear them, scientists in Brazil discover
Cicadas are nature's weirdos, and about to infest 2 parts of the U.S. | AP News
Chechnya 'bans music that is too fast or too slow'
TDIH: Yuri Gagarin and Vostok 1, the First Human Spaceflight -
Dogs Language Comprehension, Man Runs Across Africa, New Star in the Skies, and TDIH - The Modern Sub
Can dogs truly understand what we are saying? A new study provides intriguing results. A British man runs the continent of Africa, and a new star will briefly be seen in the night skies. Plus, on this day in History, we look at the first modern submarine.
Dogs Language Comprehension (CNN) (Current Biology)
Africa Run (BBC)
New (Temporary) Star (Gizmodo) (Astronomy.com)
Modern Submarine History (Library of Congress) (Library of Congress - Turtle) (Britannica)
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Kundenrezensionen
Very robotic.
Informative, and on a sensitive topic but could make it a bit less morbidly robotic.