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. 09/24 - The Secret Mancave Beneath Grand Central Terminal
A guide to saying no for people-pleaser’s. A recently discovered secret party room located under Grand Central Terminal and other strange breaking news from the New York City subway. Experts weigh in…
00:19:11 |
Thu 24 Sep 2020
Wed. 09/23 - Eat a Five Star Dinner, From Your Car
A new discovery indicates chromium is about a thousand years older than we thought. Why it’s sometimes better not to use your full potential on things. A group of chefs trying to make drive-thru fine…
00:19:02 |
Wed 23 Sep 2020
Tue. 09/22 - Horror Fans Fare Better During the Pandemic
A new study has found that fans of horror movies are having an easier time coping with the pandemic. The woman who serves as the Queen of England’s body double. A new species of dinosaur discovered w…
00:14:48 |
Tue 22 Sep 2020
Mon. 09/21 - Get Vacation Stress-Relief Without the Vacation
Why do we eat fish sticks? The story behind those viral annual 21st of September videos. How to get the mental health benefits of “vacation anticipation” without going on vacation. And one of Ruth Ba…
00:17:10 |
Mon 21 Sep 2020
(Bonus) A Conversation with Jason Kottke
Jason Kottke started Kottke.org in 1998, making it one of the oldest, still maintained blogs on the web with over 26,000 posts spanning topics from art and technology to design, culture, and general …
00:55:21 |
Sat 19 Sep 2020
Fri. 09/18 - How Bras Inspired the N95
The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize winners were announced last night. Some people are trying to make CD players a thing again. How algorithms can detect our mood based on what we write online. And the surprisin…
00:21:37 |
Fri 18 Sep 2020
Thu. 09/17 - Practice Friluftsliv This Winter
Some tips for tricking the algorithms and having a more neutral social media feed. Scientists have discovered a possible way to prevent motion sickness. The Norwegian concept of friluftsliv and how i…
00:17:56 |
Thu 17 Sep 2020
Wed. 09/16 - No Seasonal Peeps, Yes Taco Bell Wine
A completely preserved extinct cave bear specimen from the Ice Age has been found in Siberia. Why our dreams have been more intense since the pandemic began. Strange new food and drinks hitting the m…
00:17:37 |
Wed 16 Sep 2020
Tue. 09/15 - Life on Venus & Responsible Shrek Fans
Scientists have detected phosphine on Venus. Is it a sign of life? What it’s like to be in the virtual audience of a televised game. If you have trouble breathing when wearing a mask, here’s an expla…
00:18:23 |
Tue 15 Sep 2020
Mon. 09/14 - Preventing "Mask Breath" & Worse
Have you become intimately acquainted with your own breath since you began wearing a mask? Here’s how to curb the stench. Some insight into how non-human animals use numbers and quantitative informat…
00:17:34 |
Mon 14 Sep 2020
Fri. 09/11 - Why Do Americans Love Rotisserie Chicken?
Why the cheap rotisserie chicken is ubiquitous in American grocery stores. The new, true proportions of the megalodon. Unpacking the enormous size of Houston, Texas and its highway interchanges, as c…
00:18:26 |
Fri 11 Sep 2020
Thu. 09/10 - How Where You Live Determines Your Personality
The big, underlying reason why so many items were tough to find at the start of the pandemic, and why some may still be for a long time to come. The sea anemones who grow extra tentacles when they ea…
00:19:46 |
Thu 10 Sep 2020
Wed. 09/09 - Modern-Day Willy Wonka Is Giving Away His Candy Factory
The perfectly sealed 2,500 year old coffins recently discovered in Egypt. How lockdown is making us all socially awkward. The gold ticket competition to win a candy factory, and the Willy Wonka-like …
00:18:02 |
Wed 09 Sep 2020
Tue. 09/08 - Long Live the (Cloned) Woolly Mammoth
The first cloned endangered horse has been born. Next stop woolly mammoth de-extinction? The New Zealand man who won the French Scrabble competition without speaking a single word of French. The risi…
00:20:21 |
Tue 08 Sep 2020
Fri. 09/04 - Meditate With a Squid
New research indicates that Stonehenge may have been able to produce surround sound and was used to amplify rituals. The bizarre tradition of excessively-huge homecoming mums in Texas. A Finnish town…
00:18:52 |
Fri 04 Sep 2020
Thu. 09/03 - The Schwarzenegger School of Social Media Etiquette
The Swedish scientists that used VR to Freaky Friday some best friends and study how our bodies affect our sense of self. Some exercises you can do at your desk to improve your posture. The curious c…
00:16:47 |
Thu 03 Sep 2020
Wed. 09/02 - Super Medium Black Holes & An OG Viral Reboot
The most massive merger of two black holes ever and mysteries it’s left us with. The fourteen year old viral hit, “Shoes,” is back with a pro-mask follow-up. The new dollar coins in Australia designe…
00:20:16 |
Wed 02 Sep 2020
Tue. 09/01 - Bee Venom Cancer Treatment & Diamond-Powered Batteries
The dragon eggs powered by diamonds. No, it’s not a children’s fairy tale, it’s a cutting-edge type of nuclear battery that could give us super long-lasting power and very little waste. The extinct b…
00:19:38 |
Tue 01 Sep 2020
Mon. 08/31 - Monkey-Fighting Grannies with Airsoft Guns
An update on Elon Musk’s brain implant technology. Some slightly bizarre anxiety-reducing exercises. How to make Batman give you driving directions. And the monkey-fighting group of grannies in Japan…
00:17:40 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Fri. 08/28 - The Border Town Currently Isolated From Both Canada & the US
How the Anthropocene has had a bigger impact on North America than the last ice age. The Washington border town that can’t access either Canada or the US anymore. How to celebrate Independent Booksto…
00:19:54 |
Fri 28 Aug 2020
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