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
Thu. 05/13 - I'll Have What She's Having: The Decline of Personalized Recommendations?
How Netflix’s new top ten lists actually work, some other features they’re testing out, and what their findings mean for the future of algorithmic recommendations. Plus, how drones are helping change…
00:17:16 |
Thu 13 May 2021
Wed. 05/12 - How Epidemiologists Are Approaching Post-Vaccine Life
A look at how epidemiologists are approaching their personal returns to everyday life. How Denmark has quadrupled their cardiac arrest survival rate and whether the same system could be adopted in ot…
00:18:31 |
Wed 12 May 2021
Tue. 05/11 - The Real Voice Behind Alexa
A new book digs into the origins of Amazon’s Alexa and allegedly reveals the woman who provided the voice for their original virtual assistant. A teenage wannabe influencer from France is set to be I…
00:18:52 |
Tue 11 May 2021
Mon. 05/10 - Got Wood? America's Mounting Lumber Problem
America is off candy. All we want is chicken wings and lumber. At least according to the market. A productivity hack that lets you celebrate your accomplishments instead of wallowing in frustration a…
00:18:43 |
Mon 10 May 2021
Fri. 05/07 - No Shrooms on Mars, Just Misinformation
No, there is not evidence of mushrooms on Mars, and the story of how that misinformation spread yesterday goes even deeper than you may think. Part of the rocket China launched at the end of last mon…
00:19:38 |
Fri 07 May 2021
Thu. 05/06 - Is This Podcast Cheugy?
Are you cheugy? Am I cheugy? What the heck is cheugy? The more we post photos of ourselves online, the easier it is for AIs to recognize us. But what if there were a way for them to forget our faces?…
00:17:25 |
Thu 06 May 2021
Wed. 05/05 - Professional Mermaids Are Taking Over
Company tries running Facebook ads that transparently point out how Facebook ads work. Facebook blocks the ads. Shocking! Mermaid diving––like free diving but while wearing a mermaid tail––is quickly…
00:18:56 |
Wed 05 May 2021
Tue. 05/04 - The Closest to a Real Lightsaber We'll Probably Get
The physics of jumping to hyperspace, Disney teases their retractable lightsaber, and more Star Wars Day updates. Plus, in real space news: China launched the first module of the Chinese Space Statio…
00:18:40 |
Tue 04 May 2021
Mon. 05/03 - Can We Expand Human Life Spans?
Average human life expectancy doubled in the last century. Has it reached its cap or can we double it again? Some considerations. And NASA conducted a tabletop simulation of an asteroid impact last w…
00:19:47 |
Mon 03 May 2021
Fri. 04/30 - Human Memes Are Taking Back What They’re Owed
People who accidentally became memes are using NFTs to regain a sense of ownership over their likenesses––and make some pretty nice chunks of change. Scotland could become the first “rewilding nation…
00:17:09 |
Fri 30 Apr 2021
Thu. 04/29 - An AI Won a Crossword Tournament & the Olympics Gets Into eSports
How an AI, after failing for a decade, finally won the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. The Olympics are going virtual, but not how you’re probably thinking. And remembering Apollo 11 astronaut …
00:17:52 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
Wed. 04/28 - How To Fix Our Crappy Toilets & Secure Our Future
It’s time for a toilet revolution. No, I’m not just talking about bidets. Our wastewater systems are dangerously out of date, but sustainable innovations could be just around the u-bend. Plus, the fu…
00:19:07 |
Wed 28 Apr 2021
Tue. 04/27 - This Famous Actor's Mom Helped Save the Apollo 13 Astronauts
Why the story of aerospace engineer Judith Love Cohen, who helped rescue the Apollo 13 astronauts, is making the rounds again and why we should remember her name. A new ice cube tray-shaped retinal p…
00:18:28 |
Tue 27 Apr 2021
Mon. 04/26 - The Battle of the Joshes
Dozens of people named Josh gathered in Nebraska over the weekend for a battle to crown the ultimate Josh. Who won and why the heck did this happen? I’ve got the details. The precursor to laugh track…
00:17:39 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Fri. 04/23 - A McShake Up: The Battle Over McDonald's Ice Cream Machines
What do you call a collection of black holes? That’s not the tee-up for a punchline. Scientists are legitimately trying to decide what word to use. Plus, how Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs was based on …
00:18:17 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
Thu. 04/22 - Your Grandma's Meme Stocks of the 1980s
NASA has generated oxygen on Mars. The story of the women retirees who hacked the stock market decades before GameStop and Wall Street Bets. And on the eve of his 404th death day, a look at what Shak…
00:19:45 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Wed. 04/21 - Translating Whales' Conversations Using AI
A few newly-announced NASA funded projects, including one to build a radio telescope in a crater on the moon. A Welsh farmer shares his secrets to ultimate contentment. And can machine learning help …
00:17:46 |
Wed 21 Apr 2021
Tue. 04/20 - The New Roaring 20s? An Economist & Epidemiologist Weigh In
Will this decade be another “Roaring 20s?” A social epidemiologist and a Nobel Prize-winning economist weigh in. How many T-Rexes roamed the land throughout their time on Earth? A team of paleontolog…
00:19:20 |
Tue 20 Apr 2021
Mon. 04/19 - Super League, Explained (w/ Brian McCullough)
You may have heard about a bit of a shake-up in the world of soccer today with a dozen of the world’s biggest teams forming what they’re calling the Super League. To help explain what the heck is goi…
00:37:29 |
Mon 19 Apr 2021
Fri. 04/16 - Human-Monkey Chimera Embryos Are a Reality Now
Scientists have created human-monkey hybrid embryos––yes, you heard that right. Archaeologists have found an entire lost city in Egypt. We have even more pterosaur news this week! And a very deliciou…
00:18:20 |
Fri 16 Apr 2021
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