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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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Now Hiring: Postal Workers in Antarctica, NASA's Lunar Lighthouse & The First City Bus Takes to the Streets
Antarctica's 'Penguin Post Office' is hiring: Do you have what it takes?
NASA Lunar Lighthouse Beacons Navigation Odie Lander (Also See: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/nasa-to-demonstrate-autonomous-navigation-system-on-moon)
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Coral Reef Restoration, NASA's "Message in a Bottle", and the NASA Tabletop Game
Coral reef restoration shows amazing promise, NASA sends another “message in a bottle”, and the well-known space organization now has its own tabletop RPG game. Plus, This Day in History, the first dot com domain is taken.
Coral Reef Restoration (GNN) (Cell Press)
Message in a Bottle (GNN)
NASA Game (NASA - The Lost Universe)
Domain History (StackScale) (History of Information) (Nameboy) (Colorlib)
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Total Solar Eclipse Details and Studying How Animals Will Respond to the Eclipse
What you need to know about the upcoming total solar eclipse, including how will animals respond and on This Day in History, we look at one of the most brilliant minds of all time.
Solar Eclipse (AP News) (NPR)
Animals Reaction to Solar Eclipse (AP News)
Einstein (ScienceStruck) (National Geographic) (The Fact File)
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AI Helps Predict Cardiac Arrest and Weird Wednesday
Artificial Intelligence is being used to predict sudden cardiac arrest … doctors are making progress and we’ll tell you about it, it’s Weird Wednesday which means free gas in Omaha … that’s a felony … a bizarre new sport in Colorado blends rodeo with skiing, Kevin Bacon escapes his pigpen in Wisconsin, and one lego piece sells for nearly $20K. Plus, on This Day in History - how earmuffs kept one town running for decades.
AI - Cardiac Arrest (Cedars Sinai)
Free Gas Glitch (AP News)
Skijoring (AP News)
Kevin Bacon - The Pig (AP News)
March Meowness Library Fines (UPI)
$18K Lego Piece (UPI) (People)
Earmuffs (Smithsonian)
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Family Discovers Dino Footprints, Gray Whales in Cape Cod, and Milk-Producing Amphibian
One family’s discovery is a find of a lifetime, a mammal’s return to a region where they were previously extinct, an amphibian that produces milk has been found, and This Week Is History - Coke is finally bottled up.
Dinosaur Footprints (GNN)
Gray Whales in Cape Cod (GNN)
Milk-Producing Amphibian (NPR) (Nature)
Coke Bottles (History)
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Voyager 1 Troubles and The Latest from the Government on UFOs
We leave earth’s atmosphere for today's episode asking, after nearly 50 years, have we heard the last from Voyager 1? We follow up on the latest from the US Government on the existence of UFOs, is the truth really out there? Plus, This Day in History takes a look at the Normal School.
Voyager 1 (NPR)
UFOs (Sky News)
The Normal School (MyChamplainValley)
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