Cool Weird Awesome – Brady Carlson

Yours ‘Til Niagara Falls (Cool Weird Awesome 83)

Posted on July 15, 2019July 15, 2019
Brady Carlson

Going over Niagara Falls in a barrel usually doesn’t end well.
Going over the falls on a tightrope? Now we might be on to something.

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Drinking Coffee Out Of Coffee Cups Made From Coffee (Cool Weird Awesome 82)

Posted on July 12, 2019
Brady Carlson

Coffee grounds can be recycled in all kinds of ways, including lots of products. And the most meta product of all is from KaffeeForm, which uses coffee grounds to make coffee cups.

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Rhinelander, Wisconsin Is America’s Hodag Headquarters (Cool Weird Awesome 81)

Posted on July 11, 2019
Brady Carlson

Wisconsin’s most fearsome folk monster been in Harry Potter and tangled with the Scooby Gang, but the Hodag is beloved in the community of Rhinelander, where it’s the high school team mascot and there are many Hodags to find around town.

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When The Flyover Flies Over The Wrong Spot (Cool Weird Awesome 80)

Posted on July 10, 2019
Brady Carlson

Patrouille Swiss is the official aerial acrobatics team for Switzerland. Last weekend they were in fine form as they flew over the community of Langenbruck for a festival honoring a local aviation hero… except for one thing: they weren’t actually over Langenbruck.

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Getting All Our Robot Ducks In A Row (Cool Weird Awesome 79)

Posted on July 9, 2019
Brady Carlson

In Japan, there’s a little white robot swimming through rice fields, imitating a duck! It’s actually helping to grow the rice by aerating the water and stopping weeds from growing.

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Rise Of The Tortilla (Cool Weird Awesome 78)

Posted on July 8, 2019July 9, 2019
Brady Carlson

Taco Bell says it’s been dealing with a tortilla shortage. Those craving inexpensive tacos and burritos at odd hours are bearing the brunt of this crisis, but it’s affecting all of us – after all, tortillas have been a part of our culinary lives for thousands of years.

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We Have A Lot Of UFO Historical Markers Now (Cool Weird Awesome 77)

Posted on July 5, 2019
Brady Carlson

It’s day one of the Roswell UFO Festival in New Mexico. Whatever happened there in 1947, the incident put Roswell on the map – and other towns that have their own UFO stories have been increasingly playing up those stories, including through historic markers.

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What Was July 4th Like Before The Fourth Of July? (Cool Weird Awesome 76)

Posted on July 4, 2019
Brady Carlson

It’s the 243rd birthday of the United States, and we’ve done a lot of celebrating over those years. But what were people doing on the Fourth of July before American independence? One of the most interesting stories is from July 4, 1054 – in China.

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I Wear My Smart Glasses At Night (Cool Weird Awesome 75)

Posted on July 3, 2019
Brady Carlson

Smart glasses are a thing! Not augmented reality, but an actual pair of glasses that can sense what we’re trying to look at and make it easier to see it clearly as our eyes age and lose some of their ability to focus. Plus: the National Paper Doll Convention begins today.

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Lawn Chair Larry Takes To The Sky (Cool Weird Awesome 74)

Posted on July 2, 2019
Brady Carlson

On this day in 1982, a dude named Larry Walters entered aviation history as the pilot of a craft called Inspiration I – which was a lawn chair attached to 42 large weather balloons.

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