I Review The Body Electric (Cool Weird Awesome 52)

It's the 200th birthday of Walt Whitman, the poet best known for his landmark work Leaves of Grass... and the guy who anonymously wrote glowing reviews of his own writing in the newspapers.

By |2021-01-20T15:44:41-05:00May 31, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

The Only Headless Chicken With His Own Festival (Cool Weird Awesome 51)

We’re on the eve of this year’s biggest event in Fruita, Colorado - the Mike the Headless Chicken Festival, where people all gather to celebrate the miracle chicken who had his head chopped off, and carried on as if nothing had changed.

By |2021-03-05T09:58:33-05:00May 30, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

What Is The Euphemism For “I Dropped A Frog”? (Cool Weird Awesome 49)

Scientific papers can be wild. When they refer to “unplanned rapid disassembly," that’s an academic way of saying “accidentally exploded.”

By |2019-09-05T13:36:21-04:00May 28, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

The Many One True Birthplaces Of Memorial Day (Cool Weird Awesome 48)

Officially, the community that started Memorial Day is Waterloo, New York - but Waterloo is definitely not the only place with a Memorial Day origin story.

By |2021-06-28T14:10:23-04:00May 27, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

The Jumpsuit Century (Cool Weird Awesome 47)

There’s nothing more fashionable than the jumpsuit, right? Right? Anyway, it was a century ago that the Italian artist Thayaht proposed a one-piece garment with buttons down the front as the next big thing in fashion.

By |2021-02-01T08:15:27-05:00May 24, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , |
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