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. 02/18 - Improving Twitter with an 1800s Etiquette Handbook
The Los Angeles musician who helped design the microphones on the Perseverance rover that will hopefully give us our first-ever audio recordings of Mars. Can a 19th century etiquette book make Twitte…
00:16:23 |
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Wed. 02/17 - How Perseverance Could Pave the Way for Humans on Mars
A historical defense of arranging book collections by color. Scientists have sequenced the oldest DNA ever found and made some mammoth discoveries in the process. And NASA’s Perseverance rover is set…
00:17:43 |
Wed 17 Feb 2021
Tue. 02/16 - Del Monte Engineered Pink Pineapples for Instagram
The new fruit taking over Instagram. Why the winter storm sweeping the US is causing an energy crisis, especially in Texas. And a new-ish game that lets you take a virtual vacation with your friends.…
00:19:47 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
Mon. 02/15 - The Impactor That Killed the Dinosaurs: A New Theory
Scientists in Antarctica accidentally discovered animal life beneath an ice shelf half a mile deep. An app that lets you tune into live radio stations all over the world. A new study that challenges …
00:18:56 |
Mon 15 Feb 2021
Fri. 02/12 - He Made a Guitar Out of His Uncle's Skeleton
The story of how two brothers gamed the YouTube system thirteen years ago and have since used that method to raise nearly 14 million dollars for charity. An interactive site that simulates the audio …
00:17:33 |
Fri 12 Feb 2021
Thu. 02/11 - Myspace is back!
How the UK variant of Sars-CoV-2 may have evolved inside just one human. Some dating apps are adding video components, but it’s just another case of modern tech “inventing” something that has already…
00:19:14 |
Thu 11 Feb 2021
Wed. 02/10 - The Curious Case of the Purple Daisy Photo
Do all of these UV light “virus-killing” appliances really work? The mystery of the purple flower photo that has accounted for nearly 20% of all Wikimedia Commons traffic since last summer. And, it’s…
00:17:51 |
Wed 10 Feb 2021
Tue. 02/09 - A Hacker Tried to Poison a Town's Water Supply
The scientific benefits of going for regular walks, and some tips for incorporating more walks into your life. The town in Florida whose water was almost poisoned when a nefarious individual hacked i…
00:18:19 |
Tue 09 Feb 2021
Mon. 02/08 - A Live Animated Stage Production... Wait, what?
How the Royal Shakespeare Company is using live motion capture to animate a virtual show in real time. A case study of a California town who has this whole pandemic response thing down. A 3D printed …
00:18:54 |
Mon 08 Feb 2021
Fri. 02/05 - This Is Your Brain On Juggling
How learning to juggle is the perfect example of what happens to your brain when you learn a new skill. A new literary version of Street Fighter II. Why Burger King France is handing out free potatoe…
00:17:09 |
Fri 05 Feb 2021
Wed. 02/04 - An Unborn Baby's Debut Album
We were bracing for a flu and COVID double whammy of a winter, but it never came. What happened? An intriguing new community initiative taking off in Europe to help prevent the mounting problem of el…
00:19:15 |
Thu 04 Feb 2021
Wed. 02/03 - Are We Too Cynical for Viral Stunts These Days?
What causes ice ages? The science behind your frying pan. You know, the one that’s supposed to be non-stick but isn’t. Scientists explain why. Other scientists have engineered spinach to send emails.…
00:18:56 |
Wed 03 Feb 2021
Tue. 02/02 - How Frozen Helped Solve the Dyatlov Pass Mystery
How a 1970s seat belt crash test and the animated movie Frozen helped potentially solve the 62-year-old Dyatlov Pass mystery. A fascinating correction to something I said yesterday about Langston Hug…
00:18:09 |
Tue 02 Feb 2021
Mon. 02/01 - February's Mars Invasion
Sharing some thoughts from Langston Hughes on this first day of Black History Month, and questioning what makes someone a hero in our history books. Plus, the discovery of a new blue pigment. And all…
00:19:11 |
Mon 01 Feb 2021
Fri. 1/29 - What Your Tone of Voice Could Say About Your Music Taste
What did everyday Romans in Pompeii eat? An archaeologist has tried to reconstruct their meals. Merriam-Webster has added 520 new words to the dictionary. How do they decide which words get added? An…
00:18:00 |
Fri 29 Jan 2021
Thu. 1/28 - Legal Protections for Sounds & Smells in France
The mathematics of knitting. How France is trying to legally protect smells. A cautionary tale that will inspire you to go check on your office building if you’ve been working from home and no one’s …
00:17:39 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
Wed. 1/27 - Putting Your Money In GameStop is Old News
A brief dip into the GameStop Wall Street mayhem. A new water-is-wet kind of study proving that money indeed can buy you happiness. And the story of some students who just found out their new profess…
00:16:42 |
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Tue. 1/26 - Werner Herzog on Skateboarding
New DNA analysis upends some long held assumptions about the evolutionary background of dire wolves. How Adobe Flash broke an entire railway system. Astronomers have discovered a sextuply-eclipsing s…
00:18:28 |
Tue 26 Jan 2021
Mon. 1/25 - The Moon Rock in Biden's Oval Office: A History
The word “robot” was coined one hundred years ago today in a play about robots taking over the world. Good thing that hasn’t happened yet! ...right? The story behind the moon rock in President Biden’…
00:18:24 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Fri. 1/22 - The Swedish Secret to Happy, Productive Work Days
NASA trained an AI to detect craters on Mars. A possible discovery of giant prehistoric carnivorous worms. A new Swedish practice to adopt. And a mobile site that will match you with your film critic…
00:16:33 |
Fri 22 Jan 2021
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