It’s Fashion Week on Cool Weird Awesome
This week we’re replaying some of our favorite shows about clothes and the people who wear them.
Bombing Your Way To Stock Market Success Is A Bad Investing Strategy
It was one of the most convoluted and over-thought plots in the history of crime: a guy tried to manipulate the stock market with bombs.
Monkeys Follow Some Of The Same Economic Principles As Humans Do
Today in 2005, the release of a study that found something interesting: monkeys appeared to have some of the same economic ideas that humans have, especially when it comes to something known as loss aversion.
How The Juneteenth Holiday Spread From Galveston, To Texas, To The Whole United States
Holidays don't just show up; people make them happen. Here's the story of how a commemoration of a key moment in ending the institution of slavery eventually became a national holiday across the United States.
Trogdor Lives
as seen on the Lego wall at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
The Vatican Once Sang The Praises Of The Blues Brothers
This week in 2010, a classic movie gets a shout-out from a very unusual place.