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
Tue. 08/10 - A New Carnivorous Flower CAPTCHAs Its Prey
Why are CAPTCHA’s so frustrating and, in a way, so grim and disconcerting? Plus, botanists have identified the first carnivorous plant in twenty years, but don’t go calling it Audrey III just yet. An…
00:17:13 |
Tue 10 Aug 2021
Mon. 08/09 - That “Code Red” Climate Report, Explained
Some context and takeaways from the big UN climate report released this morning. NASA has opened applications for their Mars simulation mission. And why are some people in Japan sending bags of rice …
00:18:23 |
Mon 09 Aug 2021
Fri. 08/06 - A Gardener's High? Can Playing In Dirt Make You Happier?
What are forest schools? And the science behind why gardening can make you feel happy and peaceful. Plus, the Perseid meteor shower is happening in just a few days. And the co-creator of the Oxford/A…
00:17:39 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
Thu. 08/05 - Vaccine APP-rehension
As the tides trend toward requiring vaccinations for entry in more places, what is the landscape of apps and methods to verify vaccination status? Plus, meatball-scented candles from IKEA and two ver…
00:17:25 |
Thu 05 Aug 2021
Wed. 08/04 - Why Is Snow on the Alps Turning Red?
The six countries most likely to survive all-out societal collapse from climate change. Why is snow on the Alps turning red? And a website that will transport you back to sleepy nights in front of th…
00:15:36 |
Wed 04 Aug 2021
Tue. 08/03 - What Edgar Allan Poe's Forgotten Science Writing Can Tell Us About Misinformation
Edgar Allan Poe wasn’t just the sad author of spooky tales we all know and love, but also a passionate science journalist, and the writings he left behind can tell us a lot about our current relation…
00:20:03 |
Tue 03 Aug 2021
Mon. 08/02 - Why Skateboarding Is An Olympic Sport, But Cricket Isn't
What makes an Olympic sport an Olympic sport? And what does it take to get cut from the lineup? Namely, why is baseball getting cut once again in 2024, but breakdancing will make its Olympic debut? A…
00:19:47 |
Mon 02 Aug 2021
Fri. 07/30 - Millions of Views & Not a Dollar To Show For It
I read a BuzzFeed article about virality and go on a rant about the creator economy. PornHub has a new campaign to help bolster museum tourism. And we may have found a fingerprint from Michelangelo… …
00:17:10 |
Fri 30 Jul 2021
Thu. 07/29 - Kids Are Using Soda To Fake Positive COVID Tests
Why it could take you months to get a new sofa. Kids are trying to get out of class by using soda to fake positive COVID tests. And how to reinvigorate your health with a “microadventure.”
Sponsor:
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00:15:58 |
Thu 29 Jul 2021
Wed. 07/28 - Why the COVID Vaccines WEREN'T Hacked... So Far
How a task force prevented the COVID-19 vaccines from being hacked because, yes, that was a real and valid concern. Plus, the sometimes controversial history of timekeeping at the Olympics and the AI…
00:16:33 |
Wed 28 Jul 2021
Tue. 07/27 - Are Personalized Digital Billboards the Future?
The history and future of billboard advertising. The surprisingly big challenge of recycling bowling balls. And the YouTube Creator who just got hired by Lucasfilm.
Sponsor:
Green Chef, go to Gree…
00:17:39 |
Tue 27 Jul 2021
Mon. 07/26 - An Olympic Medal For Designing Olympic Medals
A look back at when the Olympics used to give out medals in artistic categories, including the designing of Olympic medals, and the case for why they should bring that back this year in particular. P…
00:21:32 |
Mon 26 Jul 2021
Fri. 07/23 - Time Keeps on Slipping, Slipping, Slipping
Rounding errors may cause winners to become losers and losers winners, Bezos and James Webb both fall to Earth, and beyond lobster shortages, now crabs.
Links:
The floating point: Rounding error …
00:20:32 |
Fri 23 Jul 2021
Thu. 07/22 - Venmore You Venknow
Your payments for dog walking and, er, “love hotels” via Venmo are now no longer subject to global scrutiny, neutron stars have wee tiny mountains, smaller than predicted, pool parties by the hour vi…
00:18:08 |
Thu 22 Jul 2021
Wed. 07/21 - It Was in All the Papers
How did paper sizes fall into their century-long groove, how low-wage workers seem to have the upper hand in the job market despite pandemic job losses, and the very newest, freshest words are in.
L…
00:18:36 |
Wed 21 Jul 2021
Tue. 07/20 - Creepy Clown Town 2021
Was the Chinese seed scare of mid-2020 just a matter of delayed orders and pandemic memory? The Ever Green clogging the Suez Canal is probably a sign of things to come, not a one-off accident. And Wa…
00:21:20 |
Tue 20 Jul 2021
Mon. 07/19 - It Brings Good Things Back to Life
Coca-Cola brings your dead taste buds back to life with a new Coke Zero formulation that probably definitely certainly won’t produce a New Coke outrage, Olympic athletes can perform team gymnastics o…
00:17:23 |
Mon 19 Jul 2021
Fri. 07/16 - People Have Reservations about Deep-Faking Bourdain’s Voice
The flood of robocalls may soon abate due to a technology named after James Bond’s martini instructions to bartenders, an ethical debate over whether we can revive the dead’s voices to simulate what …
00:16:47 |
Fri 16 Jul 2021
Thu. 07/15 - NASA, Don’t Flub on Hubble Trouble
It’s not mind reading, but a man’s ability to convey words is partially restored through electrodes and machine learning; NASA carefully prepares to press Control-Alt-Delete on the Hubble Space Teles…
00:17:57 |
Thu 15 Jul 2021
Wed. 07/14 - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ETAOIN SHRDLU TK TK TK
It’s all greeked to me, some new history about the old text “lorem ipsum”; Europa may hide its secrets more deeply than previously thought; and a man happily discovers 160 bowling bowls under his hou…
00:17:39 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
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