October 2019 – Brady Carlson

How Space Might Save The Whales (Cool Weird Awesome 153)

Posted on October 21, 2019
Brady Carlson

Science has brought whales and outer space together for the first time since the fourth Star Trek movie. The British Antarctic Survey has been partnering with researchers in Chile on a way to protect whales via satellite. Plus: the story of a paraglider who manages to land smoothly and carefully on a couch.

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Nick Lestina: Basement Filled With Blood

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Basement Filled With Blood

Posted on October 18, 2019October 17, 2019
Brady Carlson

Well there’s the most casually terrifying chyron of the year.

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Keeping Up With The World’s Fastest Ant (Cool Weird Awesome 152)

Posted on October 18, 2019
Brady Carlson

The Saharan silver ant can ran up to 108 of its own body lengths per second, making it the fastest ant in the world. But it lives in the desert, and running in sand usually slows us down. How the heck do they do it? Plus: in Banner Elk, North Carolina, the 42nd annual Woolly Worm Festival gets underway this weekend.

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I will not yield! Some Things For October 17, 2019

Posted on October 17, 2019
Brady Carlson

We’ve got a little bit of everything today.

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When Performance Art Meets Brain Scans (Cool Weird Awesome 151)

Posted on October 17, 2019
Brady Carlson

Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo has created a new work called “If We Were XYZ,” and it’s based on her dreams, which she documented with the help of an electroencephalogram machine. Plus: The World Food Championships are now underway in Dallas, with some 1,500 award-winning chefs and cooks putting it all on the line and/or plates.

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There’s A Giant Ouija Board In Salem, Massachusetts (Cool Weird Awesome 150)

Posted on October 16, 2019
Brady Carlson

Salem, Massachusetts is now home to the world’s largest Ouija board. These boards are a product of the Spiritualist movement of the 19th century, which emphasized communicating with the “other side.” They happened to be the most practical way to connect!

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When Entertainment Is Literally A Train Wreck (Cool Weird Awesome 149)

Posted on October 15, 2019
Brady Carlson

Every era has its forms of entertainment. In the old days, promoters would stage actual train wrecks, using trains that were on their way to the scrap heap. Others would stage massive recreations of disasters and tragedies from the news and history. And thousands of people would pay to see them!

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Let’s Cover Some Unusual Measurements In A Jiffy (Cool Weird Awesome 148)

Posted on October 14, 2019
Brady Carlson

Almost everything we do can be measured, and in lots of ways beyond the inches, yards and seconds we normally use. We take a trip through some lesser known measurements, like siriometer, cow’s grass, and jiffy (yes, it’s an actual term!) Plus: meet the dad who built a full-size claw machine for his daughter’s 7th birthday party.

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Nobody: Running For Keene, NH Mayor

Posted on October 11, 2019
Brady Carlson

Did anybody vote for Nobody?

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The Mayor Can’t Be Here, But Would You Like A Selfie With His Cardboard Cutout? (Cool Weird Awesome 147)

Posted on October 11, 2019
Brady Carlson

When the residents of Pichuclaco, Chiapas, Mexico took part in a public health event, they didn’t get to meet Mayor Moisés Aguilar Torres – at least not the real him. But they did get to see, and take pictures with, a cardboard cutout of the mayor. Plus: remember that time the people of New England went bonkers and stole hundreds of cardboard David Hasselhoffs?

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