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Covering the most interesting and coolest stories that you may have missed around the world in about 15 minutes a day. Cool Stuff Ride Home looks at science, progress, life-hacks, memes, exciting art, and hope. This is the antidote to depressing headlines. Smart stuff in podcast form. Cool news, as a service.
Hosted by Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff.

Cool Stuff Ride Home Cool Stuff Ride Home

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.6 • 724 Ratings

Covering the most interesting and coolest stories that you may have missed around the world in about 15 minutes a day. Cool Stuff Ride Home looks at science, progress, life-hacks, memes, exciting art, and hope. This is the antidote to depressing headlines. Smart stuff in podcast form. Cool news, as a service.
Hosted by Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff.

    Scientists Identify The Root Cause of Lupus, A Yellowstone Eruption Sends People Scrambling, Sharks Affected by Drug Smugglers & TDIH: The First Permanent Movie Theater

    Scientists Identify The Root Cause of Lupus, A Yellowstone Eruption Sends People Scrambling, Sharks Affected by Drug Smugglers & TDIH: The First Permanent Movie Theater

    Scientists believe they'd identified the root cause of Lupus though questions remain, a Yellowstone eruption sends dozens of people running, sharks test positive for cocaine due to drug smuggler ocean dumps, and on This Day in History; the first permanent movie theater emerges in New Orleans.
    Scientists say they have identified lupus' root cause — and it could pave the way for new treatment
    Surprise eruption sends dozens running for safety in Yellowstone | AP News
    Sharks off Brazil coast test positive for cocaine
    TDIH: Vitascope Hall: America's first movie theater - New Orleans Entertainment Coalition
    America's First Movie Theater / Vitascope Hall Historical Marker (hmdb.org)
    History of the Movie House | (wordpress.com)
    Shift to Projectors and the Vitoscope | History of Edison Motion Pictures | Articles and Essays | Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies | Digital Collections | Library of Congress (loc.gov)

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    • 21 min
    Alcohol’s Impact on your Biological Age, A Surprise Eruption in Yellowstone Sends People Scrambling and on This Day in History, the Chappaquiddick Incident Leaves a Woman Dead

    Alcohol’s Impact on your Biological Age, A Surprise Eruption in Yellowstone Sends People Scrambling and on This Day in History, the Chappaquiddick Incident Leaves a Woman Dead

    Alcohol’s impact on your biological age; scientists discover new indicators in your DNA, and on This Day in History, the Chappaquiddick incident leaves a promising young woman dead, and a famous senator’s career hanging in the balance.
    Alcohol has a dramatic impact on your biological age. Here’s how (BBC Science Focus)
    TDIH: Ted Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick Incident: What Really Happened
    On this day in history, former Kennedy aide killed in 'Chappaquiddick incident'
    (Video) Chappaquiddick | Based on a True Story

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    • 23 min
    Rock Discovery on Mars Stuns NASA, Weird Wednesday - Royal Goat, Orange Lobster Saved, Large Hairball Removed, Depressed Bear, and TDIH - Window Tax Repealed

    Rock Discovery on Mars Stuns NASA, Weird Wednesday - Royal Goat, Orange Lobster Saved, Large Hairball Removed, Depressed Bear, and TDIH - Window Tax Repealed

    Scientists are left stunned by the contents of a rock on Mars, after being split open by the Curiosity rover. Weird Wednesday has a new royal goat, a special Denver lobster, a large hairball, and a depressed bear. Plus, on This Day in History, the window tax is repealed in the UK.
    NASA Stunned by Discovery After Mars Rover Breaks Open a Rock (goodnewsnetwork.org)
    NASA’s Curiosity rover makes its ‘most unexpected’ find on Mars | CNN
    No kidding! King Charles III bestows royal title on rare golden goat breed | AP News
    Meet Crush, the rare orange lobster diverted from dinner plate to aquarium by Denver Broncos fans | AP News
    Doctors Pulled a 2-Pound Hairball From a Woman's Stomach (gizmodo.com)
    Florida sheriff's office warns against taking selfies with 'depressed' bear - UPI.com
    Window Tax - UK Parliament
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    • 22 min
    Finding Life on Saturn and Jupiter's Moons, Affordable Antivenom, and TDIH - The First American Typewriter

    Finding Life on Saturn and Jupiter's Moons, Affordable Antivenom, and TDIH - The First American Typewriter

    We may be closer than ever to discovering life outside of Earth, and there’s more promise in developing an affordable snake antivenom than ever, plus on This Day in History, the first American typewriter – err, typographer – is patented.
    Signs of Life Could Be Found Close to the Surface of Two Nearby Moons (gizmodo.com)
    Life signs could survive near the surfaces of Saturn and Jupiter's moons Encleadus and Europa | Space
    CRISPR Identifies Commonly Available Drug That Works as Cobra Venom Antidote (goodnewsnetwork.org)
    New antidote for cobra bites discovered - The University of Sydney
    A Brief History of Typewriters (xavier.edu)
    1829 Detail, William Austin Burt Invents the Typewriter - America's Best History, U.S. History Timeline: The 1820's (americasbesthistory.com)
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    • 25 min
    New Helium Reservoir Found, How We Really Perceive Time, and TDIH - The First European-American To Cross Canada.

    New Helium Reservoir Found, How We Really Perceive Time, and TDIH - The First European-American To Cross Canada.

    A new helium reservoir discovered in Minnesota could solve a major world problem and our concept of time may not be measured in the manner you think. Plus, on This Day in History, Alexander Mackenzie becomes the first European to cross North America north of Mexico.
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    • 26 min
    Autism Diagnosed Using Feces, Cave Discovery on the Moon, and TDIH - The First Regular In-Flight Movie

    Autism Diagnosed Using Feces, Cave Discovery on the Moon, and TDIH - The First Regular In-Flight Movie

    How feces could help detect autism, caves discovered on the moon. and on This Day in History, movies take to the skies as the first regularly scheduled films are shown on planes.
    Autism could soon be detected in your poop. Here’s why | BBC Science Focus Magazine
    Scientists confirm a cave on the moon that could one day shelter explorers | AP News
    Radar evidence of an accessible cave conduit on the Moon below the Mare Tranquillitatis pit | Nature Astronomy
    Scientists Find an Underground Cave on the Moon That Could Shelter Future Explorers (msn.com)
    1961: The First Regularly Scheduled In-Flight Movie is Shown on Board a TWA Airliner – Transportation History
    7/19/1961: TWA Introduced the World's First Inflight Movie (airwaysmag.com)
    July 19, 1961: Fasten Your Seatbelts, By Love Possessed Will Begin Shortly | WIRED
    By Love Possessed (1961) - IMDb
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    • 21 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
724 Ratings

724 Ratings

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The cool ride home

I really enjoy listening to this podcast.

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Keep looking

The original show was great - the new hosts are awful. The banter is idiotic and they are really “not an expert” about ANYTHING. Some of the comments they make about stories make me wonder what they are actually schooled in. It’s not math, history or anything to do with ANY science. I really wanted to like this show.

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Annoying banter

I don’t need to feel like I am part of a conversation between friends. I just want to hear the news.

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