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.

By |2024-12-13T07:11:45-05:00May 15, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

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.

By |2024-12-12T21:03:11-05:00May 9, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Change The (English) Channel

The commemoration ceremony for the Channel Tunnel was a diplomatic coup but an engineer's nightmare: they had to run a train carrying Queen Elizabeth II and a train with French President Francois Mitterand toward each other... on the same track.

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