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Cool Stuff Ride Home Cool Stuff Ride Home
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4.6 • 721 Ratings
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Hosted by Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff, in just 15-20 minutes, they will cover the coolest stuff that happened in the world that you may have missed. Science, progress, life-hacks, memes, exciting art, and hope. The antidote to depressing headlines. Smart stuff in podcast form. Cool news, as a service.
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The Surprising Benefit to Fish Swimming in Schools, A Rare Medical Condition is Cured for the First Time & TDIH: The Man Who Walked Backwards Across the US (and why he did it)
Fish Swim in Schools for Stealth–as 100 Fish Make Less Noise Than an Individual Swimming Alone (Supplemental: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/ad3a4e)
World-first treatment at Staffordshire Children’s Hospital at Royal Stoke for teenager with rare condition
Heroes, Heroines, and History: The Backward Walk Around the World (Supplemental 1: PLENNIE WINGO - Wired For Adventure, Supplemental 2: Ben Montgomery's 'Man Who Walked Backward' lets readers step into history)
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Screaming Frogs, Cicada STDs (not a typo), Chechnya's Strange Music Ban & TDIH: The First Human in Space
Frogs are screaming - we just can't hear them, scientists in Brazil discover
Cicadas are nature's weirdos, and about to infest 2 parts of the U.S. | AP News
Chechnya 'bans music that is too fast or too slow'
TDIH: Yuri Gagarin and Vostok 1, the First Human Spaceflight -
Dogs Language Comprehension, Man Runs Across Africa, New Star in the Skies, and TDIH - The Modern Sub
Can dogs truly understand what we are saying? A new study provides intriguing results. A British man runs the continent of Africa, and a new star will briefly be seen in the night skies. Plus, on this day in History, we look at the first modern submarine.
Dogs Language Comprehension (CNN) (Current Biology)
Africa Run (BBC)
New (Temporary) Star (Gizmodo) (Astronomy.com)
Modern Submarine History (Library of Congress) (Library of Congress - Turtle) (Britannica)
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Europe's Clean Energy, Weird Wednesday (Animal Edition), and TDIH - The Banana Comes to England
Europe’s focus on clean energy appears to be paying off and Weird Wednesday focuses on animals. Plus, on This Day in History - the banana comes to England.
Europe's Clean Energy (Reuters)
Spilled Salmon (CNN)
Stuck Mountain Goat (AP News)
Cicada Urine (WPR) (Scientific American)
England/Bananas (The Conversation) (The Independent)
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Space Refueling Station, Oldest Man-made Wooden Structures Found, and TDIH - First Tax Funded Library
You’ll soon have a place to refuel on that good ol’ trip from Earth to Mars – more details on the way, early man may have built structures of wood early than previously thought … and on This Day in History, the first publicly funded library is formed.
Space Refueling Station (GNN)
Early Wooden Structures (AP News) (Nature)
Oldest Public Library (Only In Your State) (Peterborough Town Library)
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New Thyroid Cancer Treatment, Kid Finds Roman Soldier's Gold Bracelet, and TDIH - Milk Bottles
New research could yield a new treatment option for those afflicted with thyroid cancer, a Roman soldier’s gold bracelet is discovered … and likely not in the manner you would expect , plus on This Day In History - milk is sold in glass bottles for the first time.
New Thyroid Cancer Treatment (GNN)
Roman Soldier's Gold Bracelet (Yahoo News)
Milk Bottles (Mukundsathe.com) (Bonner County History)
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Customer Reviews
The cool ride home
I really enjoy listening to this podcast.
Meh…
The original version of the show was pretty good. The new one should probably be titled “Two Idiots Read Words They Barely Understand.”
My favorite example is in the March 21st when one of the host questions why the British colonies in America during the 18th century were buying tea from the English and Dutch. “Didn’t they have the ability to manufacture it locally?”
Weep for the future.
Amazing
It saddens me that this show has come to an end. My gut reaction was, I wish I could’ve done something to help keep the show going. Though, it sounds like Jackson made the right choice for him and his personal goals. Proud of you! Will continue keeping up through other platforms!