What Is The Deal With This Bathroom On The Cal Poly Campus

For World Toilet Day, we turn our attention to a bathroom at California Polytechnic State University that's unusual even for that campus.

By |2024-12-01T12:26:50-05:00November 19, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

Maybe Our Wildest Dreams Are Wild For A Reason (Cool Weird Awesome 539)

A neuroscience researcher at Tufts University has an idea that might help explain dreams, and it’s based on something that happens with artificial intelligence.

By |2024-05-19T08:27:26-04:00May 19, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

Time To Upgrade The International Space Station’s Bathroom

Sometimes you go into space to land on the moon, and other times it’s for maintenance purposes. NASA is planning a mission to replace the toilet on the International Space Station.

To Save Water, Sometimes LESS Is More (Cool Weird Awesome 179)

Researchers at Penn State University have created liquid-entrenched smooth surface, or LESS. Why? To coat our toilets. Why? So stuff can't stick to them. Why? To save water, which we use by the tens of billions of gallons each day just to re-flush that stuck stuff. Why? Because life is unfair sometimes.

By |2024-11-19T06:59:33-05:00November 26, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Come On Feel The Airplane Bathroom Noise (Cool Weird Awesome 13)

Researchers out of Brigham Young University have been working to quiet one of the most ungodly noises in the world - airplane bathrooms.

By |2024-04-08T13:25:36-04:00April 8, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , |
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