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A bonus episode of Cool Weird Awesome for the people who make the show possible! You may know about Pisa’s world-famous leaning tower, but the city of Bologna has one too – and officials are planning to spend some big money to keep it from leaning too far and falling over. Plus: a year marks one Earth trip around the Sun. But then there’s the Great Year or Platonic Year, which is… a whole lot more.

‘Leaning tower’ in Italy on ‘high alert’ for collapse (CNN)

The Platonic Year (Oxford University Press)

Photo by Juan Antonio Segal via Flickr/Creative Commons