Medical Glue. Strong Stuff. (Cool Weird Awesome 72)

A team at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology developed a way to use medical glue to bind human tissue together instead of stitches and medical pins. They heat it up using, essentially, a hot glue gun - one that they hopefully don't leave in with their craft supplies.

By |2019-07-01T09:54:26-04:00June 28, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , |

Anyone Need Some Sponge Candy While I’m In Buffalo? (Cool Weird Awesome 71)

I'm traveling to Buffalo, New York for a book event today, so I thought I'd celebrate one of the city's beloved foods: sponge candy.

By |2021-02-15T09:48:45-05:00June 27, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

The Babe Is Here, Who’s Coming In Second? (Cool Weird Awesome 70)

Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias could do it all - she was an Olympic gold medalist, champion golfer, basketball and baseball player, vaudeville performer, celebrity and more. Once she won the US national track and field championships by herself - as in, she was a team of one and beat teams that had over a dozen athletes.

By |2021-04-28T09:14:17-04:00June 26, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , |

The World’s Greatest Robotic Pig Food Truck (Cool Weird Awesome 69)

To celebrate Bourdain Day, we talk about food trucks with personalities big enough to match their culinary skills.

By |2021-03-11T09:49:04-05:00June 25, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , |

The Fastest Lawn Mower In The World, And How We Got To It (Cool Weird Awesome 67)

Earlier this month a prototype mower in Germany set a new world record by going from zero to 100 miles an hour in 6.29 seconds… while still cutting grass! Not bad for an invention that's not even 200 years old.

By |2021-08-16T09:31:27-04:00June 21, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |
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