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
- 1097
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Wed. 11/03 - The McRib, Space Tacos, and Tropicana Toothpaste
An abridged history of the McRib sandwich. Astronauts have leveled up their taco game by growing chile peppers in space. And Tropicana just introduced their own line of toothpaste.
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00:18:11 |
Wed 03 Nov 2021
Tue. 11/02 - How to Rewild Your Attention
Some tips for “rewilding your attention.” Plus, how to help NASA train future rovers to better navigate Mars. And what’s going on with those NFT billboards in Times Square… and also, the McRib is now…
00:20:06 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
Mon. 11/01 - "Behind The Joy Are The Algorithms"
A meditation on streaming entertainment, algorithms, and David Foster Wallace’s prescient writing on the illusion of choice. Plus, a possible functional cure for HIV has just been approved to enter h…
00:19:50 |
Mon 01 Nov 2021
Fri. 10/29 - Disease and the Vampire Myth + Hallowmeme History
Digging up the origins of some of the most popular Halloween memes––from “Spooky Scary Skeletons” to the dancing pumpkin man, and also touching on the Disney Channel’s 1980s answer to MTV. Plus, how …
00:21:17 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
Thu. 10/28 - Human Eggs Made From Blood Cells
Could we one day create sperm and egg cells from any human cell, even across the sexes? Plus, how BJ Novak from The Office’s face ended up on products all around the world without him knowing. And th…
00:19:08 |
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Wed. 10/27 - Permafrost Thaw May Unleash Radioactive Waste & Bacteria
It turns out that melting permafrost could unleash Cold War-era radioactive waste and millions of years old antibiotic resistant bacteria. Cool cool cool. Plus, a look back at when picnicking in ceme…
00:16:59 |
Wed 27 Oct 2021
Tue. 10/26 - Can AI Simulations Solve the Supply Chain Disruptions?
Could a new generation of AI simulations help solve the mounting supply chain disruptions? Plus, the history and future of haunted houses. And Jeff Bezos is basically trying to start a WeWork in spac…
00:16:26 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
Mon. 10/25 - Music That Gives You Chills, and Why It Does
The countercultural witchcraft music of the 1960s, and a study exploring what it is about certain songs that give us a spine-tingling chill. Plus, elephants in Mozambique have evolved to be born with…
00:18:31 |
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Fri. 10/22 - A Solar Storm Proved the Vikings Visited The Americas Exactly 1000 Years Ago
Thanks to a collab between trees and the sun, we can now pinpoint an exact year that the Vikings were in North America. Plus, are sirens actually effective tools for emergency vehicles? And why are a…
00:18:58 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Thu. 10/21 - Using These Memes Is A Red Flag 🚩
Open captions are coming to the big screen as AMC Theaters takes a big step towards accessibility, and a look at captions’ growing popularity among the hearing. Plus, how some of the most popular mem…
00:20:13 |
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Wed. 10/20 - None Pizza With Left Beef: A Slice of History
A brief history of one of the most famous pizzas on the internet. Surgeons have successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically-altered pig to a human. And how to watch the Orionid Meteor Showe…
00:19:15 |
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Tue. 10/19 - Grand Duke Travis of Westarctica Wants To Save the Planet
A look at the micronation of Westarctica, whose Grand Duke Travis started a nonprofit arm of the micronation to raise awareness about the consequences of the climate emergency in Western Antarctica. …
00:17:52 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Mon. 10/18 - Thank Exoplanets For Your iPhone's Display
How the push to search for signs of life on exoplanets fueled the development of the technology we use in our latest generation of smartphones. Plus, what your punctuation habits can say about you as…
00:18:58 |
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Fri. 10/15 - Responding to Pandemic Uncertainty Like an Engineer
A proposal for approaching this next phase of the pandemic less like an epidemiologist and more like an engineer. Plus, new findings from the Mars Perseverance rover that has NASA breathing a sigh of…
00:18:56 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Thu. 10/14 - Do Spoilers Actually Make Movies Better?
Should you read the spoilers for horror movies before you watch them? Plus, a butterfly species in Finland with parasitic wasps in its belly… and even more wasps inside of that one. And, what if inst…
00:21:10 |
Thu 14 Oct 2021
Wed. 10/13 - Who's To Blame For Candy Corn?
How candy corn went from a year round candy marketed at farmers to the love-to-hate it Halloween treat it is today. Plus, a new interactive image gallery that starkly shows what effects three degrees…
00:21:10 |
Wed 13 Oct 2021
Tue. 10/12 - Why Do We Casually Kill Spiders Without Remorse?
What is it that makes spiders so frightening to us, and why do most of us kill them without sparing a second thought? Plus, a Scottish nightclub that’s using the body heat of their dancing patrons to…
00:16:05 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
Mon. 10/11 - The Very Intense Miss Navajo Nation Pageant
It’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day. More and more local governments are making it official, but why did we start celebrating Columbus Day to begin with? Plus, the impressive and gnarly competition to be cr…
00:23:13 |
Mon 11 Oct 2021
Fri. 10/08 - Is The Nobel Prize Bad For Science?
The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize have been announced! As well as the winners in Chemistry and Literature. More on each winner, as well as a question about whether we really need the Nobel Prize. …
00:19:18 |
Fri 08 Oct 2021
Thu. 10/07 - It's Like Venmo, But For the Post Office
The WHO has officially approved the first-ever malaria vaccine. The United States Postal Service is trying out being a bank. And the story of a white-naped crane named Walnut who fell in love with a …
00:19:13 |
Thu 07 Oct 2021
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