Cool Stuff Ride Home
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.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 1098
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Tue. 11/22 - Should 16-Year-Olds Be Allowed To Vote?
New Zealand is set to vote on lowering the voting age to 16. Scientists have added four new prefixes to the metric system. And a peek inside the wide world of Monster Energy drink collection and trad…
00:19:57 |
Tue 22 Nov 2022
Mon. 11/21 - A Ray of Hope For the "Tripledemic?"
Could the “tripledemic” be tamped down slightly by the viruses interfering with and preventing each other from spiking in the same place at the same time? Plus, public libraries in the US and Canada …
00:17:09 |
Mon 21 Nov 2022
Fri. 11/18 - Giant Turkey Legs, The Quintessential American Snack
What’s the deal with those giant turkey legs they serve at renaissance fairs and Disney World? Plus, Coors Light has just launched a color-changing nail polish that lets you know when your beer is co…
00:19:09 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Thu. 11/17 - Lab-Grown Meat Gets FDA Approval
The FDA has given approval for the first time to a lab-grown meat. Plus, another company is genetically modifying plants to work as superpowered air purifiers. And 500 new words like bae and subtweet…
00:18:06 |
Thu 17 Nov 2022
Wed. 11/16 - Fruitcake Flavored: The Pumpkin Spice of Christmastime?
Can wearing a mask yourself make it harder to recognize the faces of people, even when they’re not wearing a mask? Plus, why Kraft Heinz has upped the goof factor with so many off-the-wall stunts in …
00:19:30 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Tue. 11/15 - Chimps––They're Just Like Us!
In what feels like the start of a riddle, egg prices are surging, but chicken prices are going down. Plus, it turns out chimps like to share cool stuff as much as some daily podcasters. And Artemis I…
00:21:29 |
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Mon. 11/14 - Polar Night, Midnight Sun, & Fruit Quakes
Polar Night and Midnight Sun. What’s it like living in a place that stays absolutely pitch black for two and half months, and what can we learn from the people who live there? Plus, a new emergency a…
00:19:36 |
Mon 14 Nov 2022
Fri. 11/11 - VR Special Effects Made Live TV Debut on Election Night
How tech from shows like The Mandalorian is now being used in live election coverage on TV. Plus, an enormous tunnel has been uncovered beneath an Egyptian temple and some think it could lead to Cleo…
00:16:53 |
Fri 11 Nov 2022
Thu. 11/10 - Can I Get One Large Algae, Please?
Is algae the secret to feeding our growing world? Plus, new evidence for a sixth mass extinction that occurred even earlier than the Big Five. And some prescient thoughts on democracy from fifty year…
00:16:45 |
Thu 10 Nov 2022
Wed. 11/09 - Ballpoint Pens Killed the Cursive Star
Could the ballpoint pen be just as responsible for the death of cursive handwriting as the computer? Plus, lab-grown blood has been injected into two patients in a world-first clinical trial. And, wo…
00:19:29 |
Wed 09 Nov 2022
Tue. 11/08 - 3D Printing Human Organs In Space
From a 3D bioprinter for human tissues to pumpkin spice cappuccinos, here’s the cargo being delivered on board the S.S. Sally Ride tomorrow to the International Space Station. Plus, this time it’s no…
00:19:44 |
Tue 08 Nov 2022
Mon. 11/07 - The Uncertain Future of Social Media, Our Phones, & Us
On TikTok, Twitter, and more broadly how social media has changed us, how we might finally be approaching a tipping point in how we use it, and the ways in which our devices play just as large a role…
00:26:17 |
Mon 07 Nov 2022
Fri. 11/04 - Music to Prevent Nightmares
Could a musical cue played while you’re asleep help prevent nightmares? Plus, a round-up of science news from this month in history. And the US government might be getting an official Space Bureau.
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00:17:18 |
Fri 04 Nov 2022
Thu. 11/03 - How the World Series Led To the Television Boom
A deep dive into two major events that led to the television boom, and a question of what that has meant for the artifice and theatricality of live events.
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00:17:36 |
Thu 03 Nov 2022
Wed. 11/02 - Cornhole Controversy
2022 has been the year of cheating. The latest scandal to rock a niche community? BagGate at the American Cornhole League World Championships. Plus, Collins Dictionary has declared “permacrisis” thei…
00:17:20 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
Tue. 11/01 - Dracula: A Tale of Misinformation?
Why does Dracula still resonate with audiences over a century later? The disease narrative is one possible reason, but there’s another less-discussed theory too. Plus, one team of scientists have det…
00:16:29 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
Mon. 10/31 - Queen Victoria's Halloween Ragers
Dispatches from the Recreational Fear Lab on why being scared might be a healthy thing. And the raucous Halloween parties Queen Victoria used to throw in Scotland.
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00:18:32 |
Mon 31 Oct 2022
Fri. 10/28 - Best Of: Candy Corn, Witches, & Spine-Tingling Music
In our first-ever "Best Of" episode, we look back at the history of candy corn. How did this contentious candy come to be, why does it persist when so many people hate it, and does it really contain …
00:28:39 |
Fri 28 Oct 2022
Thu. 10/27 - This Is Your Brain On Books
Can the books we read permanently change our brains? Or at least impact our values over a lifetime? Two studies that used undergrads as guinea pigs attempt to quantify the effects of powerful books o…
00:17:40 |
Thu 27 Oct 2022
Wed. 10/26 - Men Eat Red Meat, Women Eat Salads –– But Why?
How and why did food become so gendered? Y’know, men eat red meat and women eat salads. When did those associations begin? Plus, according to new evolutionary findings, animals might have begun to vo…
00:18:49 |
Wed 26 Oct 2022
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