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
Mon. 05/02 - Waste More Time
Why it’s time for you to waste time. Plus, a café in Tokyo that doesn’t let people leave until they’ve successfully hit their writing goals. And a possibly sustainable use for the ungodly amounts of …
00:20:18 |
Mon 02 May 2022
Fri. 04/29 - Books That Kill: Arsenic-Laced Covers & Other Poisonous Pigments
How an innocent trip to the library could give you arsenic poisoning. Plus, a new pterosaur fossil seems to confirm the prehistoric reptiles had some pretty cool feathers. And, how would you like to …
00:17:30 |
Fri 29 Apr 2022
Thu. 04/28 - Oreology: The Science of Oreos
Canada has become the first country to release census data on their trans and nonbinary population. Plus, a new study showing how the climate emergency could fuel future pandemics. And, in lighter ne…
00:18:10 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
Wed. 04/27 - Our Backstabbed Two-Faced Moon
The moon has a bit of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation going on that astronomers have never been able to definitively explain, but a new study suggests it could be the result of a massive impact fou…
00:16:13 |
Wed 27 Apr 2022
Tue. 04/26 - When the CIA Funded an Animal Farm Cartoon
How the CIA funded that 1954 animated adaptation of Animal Farm as part of their anti-communist propaganda campaign. Plus, the woman who found out she’d been missing a chunk of her brain for most of …
00:18:41 |
Tue 26 Apr 2022
Mon. 04/25 - Monopoly’s Scandalous Anti-Monopoly History
The secret, anti-monopolist history of the Monopoly board game. Plus, why we’re all having trouble remembering things right now, and how we can strengthen our memories going forward.
Sponsors:
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00:16:26 |
Mon 25 Apr 2022
Fri. 04/22 - Some Like It Hot... But Why?
Why did some cultures develop tastes for particularly spicy foods and others didn’t? Plus, the Museum of Endangered Sounds. And an upcoming documentary from Alex Winter about radicalization on social…
00:19:26 |
Fri 22 Apr 2022
Thu. 04/22 - The Sport of Extreme Sitting
Introducing the sport of extreme sitting. Plus, a new study that suggests fungi might be communicating with each other via electrical impulses. And, Sir David Attenborough has been named Champion of …
00:16:59 |
Thu 21 Apr 2022
Wed. 04/20 - The AI Microwave Out for Revenge
The story of a self-described mad scientist who gave a microwave the soul of his childhood imaginary friend using AI, and then it tried to kill him. Plus, texting etiquette from Emily Post’s great-gr…
00:18:53 |
Wed 20 Apr 2022
Tue. 04/19 - Holoportation & the Real Scream Queen
A doctor was beamed up to the ISS in the first-ever holoportation to space. Plus, a new chopsticks invention that makes your food taste salty without adding any salt. And inside the world of a profes…
00:17:13 |
Tue 19 Apr 2022
Mon. 04/18 - The Old Villains Are the New Heroes + the Big Mac Index
Why indie booksellers went from hating Barnes & Noble to defending it, and what that means for the future of publishing. Plus, a look at inflation through the lens of the Big Mac Index.
Sponsors:
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00:18:28 |
Mon 18 Apr 2022
Fri. 04/15 - We Need a Time Variance Authority
In a more serious take on yesterday’s musings, how is the pandemic and modern technology changing how we communicate about and understand time? Plus, speaking of time, why do Passover and Easter some…
00:18:40 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Thu. 04/14 - Redefining Units of Time for the Techno-Era
Should we be measuring time differently now that we spend more time with digital technology than nature? Paul Ford has some suggestions. Plus, how the heck is AriZona Iced Tea still just 99 cents and…
00:17:45 |
Thu 14 Apr 2022
Wed. 04/13 - That's A Big Ol' Comet
A very big comet. How sewage monitoring could transform public health beyond just its applications for COVID-19. Plus, libraries are relinquishing local library card requirements for eBooks in a bid …
00:18:38 |
Wed 13 Apr 2022
Tue. 04/12 - Social Media as the Fall of the Tower of Babel
How social media has created a Tower of Babel-like fragmentation of society. Plus, the infrastructure secrets behind a new-to-the-US reality show starring some very busy toddlers. And the brewing bee…
00:19:50 |
Tue 12 Apr 2022
Mon. 04/11 - You Have Livetweeted Dysentery
The Maryland man livetweeting his bout of dysentery––don’t worry, he’s okay. Plus, scientists have managed to de-age human skin cells by thirty years. And an implausible NASA artifact was taken back …
00:18:22 |
Mon 11 Apr 2022
Fri. 04/08 - Short Kings & Barbie Girls
We turn back the clocks to 1997 for a history of the song “Barbie Girl” and a look at its influence on music. Plus, the Neolithic origins of Short King Spring. And mark your calendars for the Great N…
00:21:56 |
Fri 08 Apr 2022
Thu. 04/07 - Scaly Dino Fossil From the Day the Asteroid Hit Found (maybe)
An impressively well-preserved dinosaur leg fossil has been found that could be the first-ever fossil evidence of the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs. But is it all it’s cracked up to be? P…
00:17:57 |
Thu 07 Apr 2022
Wed. 04/06 - The Darwin Book Thief
Some libraries cancel late fees, others get Interpol involved for missing manuscripts. Either way, missing books can become fascinating treasures when they’re finally returned. Plus, Hubble has spott…
00:18:17 |
Wed 06 Apr 2022
Tue. 04/05 - So You Wanna Be A Fossil
How to have the best odds of becoming a fossil after you die. Plus, the creators of the viral Marcel the Shell videos secretly made a feature-length film that’s coming out this summer. And a few othe…
00:17:46 |
Tue 05 Apr 2022
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