Turtle-Friendly Fishing Nets Are Lit (Cool Weird Awesome 66)
New research suggests illuminating fishing nets with LED lights may warn turtles away and reduce bycatch.
Riding a Horse Down Fillmore Street For Juneteenth (Cool Weird Awesome 65)
Juneteenth is the annual celebration of the end of the institution of slavery. Today we give some props to the African-Americans who have built the holiday over the year, including the Texan-turned-San Franciscan who used to don his ten-gallon hat and ride his horse through town as part of the festivities.
I have come here to consider things and chew bubblegum.
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Do You Feel Like Peter Frampton’s Talk Box Does? (Cool Weird Awesome 64)
Guitar great Peter Frampton starts his farewell concert tour, which means if you want to hear him use that famous voice box in “Do You Feel Like We Do," now's the time to do it. How does that talk box work, anyway?
How To Move A 12 Ton Sphinx (Cool Weird Awesome 63)
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - known better as the Penn Museum - needed to move its most famous object, a 3,000 year old Egyptian sphinx, from a gallery to the main hall as part of a renovation project. The move was only 300 feet, but the sphinx happens to weigh 12.5 tons, so it took three days to get from point A to point B.
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Doesn’t anyone remember their sordid rock and roll history?!?
For Dads, The Story Of A World Record Burp (Cool Weird Awesome 62)
Sorry, Simpsons fans: the world's greatest burper is neither "The Critic" Jay Sherman nor Eudora Welty, but an Italian guy in a wrestling mask who calls himself Rutt Mysterio.
That Time Cat Stevens Wrote A Dog Song (Cool Weird Awesome 61)
Yusuf Cat Stevens had hits with mostly acoustic songs like "Moonshadow," "Peace Train" and "Wild World." But he's also a pioneer in electronic music.
Row, Row, Row Your Bot (Cool Weird Awesome 60)
Autonomous robot boats are a thing! Over time, researchers have taught them to row themselves gently down the stream and to connect to each other autonomously - soon they could help clean the water or even turn themselves into temporary footbridges.
Au Revoir, Rocky
Sorry to report that our ageless wonder, Rocky the cat, has passed on.