Rebecca’s Biggest Fan
Glad we could finally get a story about The Man, Becky Lynch, onto this site.
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May 2019
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Cool Weird Awesome 42: Sure, I’m Petty, Just Not Paypal-Petty
A group of researchers has been looking at the science behind digital pettiness – that’s like if you go out to eat with somebody and then use Paypal or Venmo to send them the exact amount of money to cover your order, down to the penny.
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Cool Weird Awesome 41: Venus: If You Lived Here, You’d Have Melted By Now
Today’s the 50th anniversary of an overlooked but important visit to a fairly nasty place… the planet Venus.
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Cool Weird Awesome 40: Ooh, That Smell: A Corpse Flower Blooms In Chicago
The Chicago Botanic Garden has issued a bloom watch for one of its corpse flowers – not humans’ favorite scent ever, but still a special occasion, because a corpse flower in the wild only blooms every two to five years.
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Cool Weird Awesome 39: Do Tacos Dream Of Electric Tongues?
For this Taco Tuesday we salute the Washington State University researchers behind the latest in electric tongue technology.
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Cool Weird Awesome 38: Australia’s Biggest Little Spelling Error
Australians have been laughing, cursing, sighing and facepalming over a misspelled word on the newest printing of the Australian $50 dollar note.
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Cool Weird Awesome 37: Treat Your Mother Subreddit RIght
It’s 150 years to the day that the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads drove a ceremonial golden spike into the first railroad line to cross North America. That’s the big event of the weekend – oh, there’s also a thing called Mother’s Day? Okay, well for you all let’s pay tribute to the Mom For A Minute Subreddit, which provides a virtual Reddit mom for you when your own maternal relationship is unresolved.
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Cool Weird Awesome 36: Dear Ralph Baer, Thanks, Signed, All The Video Gamers
Ralph Baer invented home video games from his workshop in Manchester, New Hampshire – and now the city is honoring this gaming pioneer with a “Baer Square,” complete with a statue, in a city park.
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Cool Weird Awesome 35: The Spy Whale Who Loved Me
The story of the whale wearing a GoPro that might be some kind of Russian surveillance agent is pretty wild, but it’s not even close to the first time governments have turned to animals for surveillance purposes.
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