11 07, 2022

At Age 11, Venetia Burney Named Pluto (Cool Weird Awesome 807)

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Today in 1918, the birthday of Venetia Burney, who at age eleven, did something few people have done: she named a planet!

13 01, 2021

Beethoven May Have Had Metronome Issues (Cool Weird Awesome 458)

By |2021-01-13T09:32:55-05:00January 13, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

Judging by metronome marks on his sheet music, Ludwig von Beethoven wanted his compositions played really, really fast. Or did he? A new data analysis suggests that the master composer and early metronome adopter may have just misread his device as he wrote down tempos. Plus: Lady Gaga has her own cookies!

4 08, 2020

The Fabric With A Built-In Cooling System (Cool Weird Awesome 351)

By |2020-08-04T06:31:31-04:00August 4, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Maybe everyone in junior high was right: the clothes you wear really can make you cool! At least if those clothes are the new fabric developed in China with a kind of cooling system embedded inside. Plus: it's National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, so let's find out about the largest chocolate chip cookie of all time.

30 01, 2020

If You’re Making Cookies In Space, Be Patient (Cool Weird Awesome 227)

By |2021-05-17T09:33:53-04:00January 30, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Of all the great breakthroughs we’ve made in outer space, there are none sweeter than this: last month, astronauts on the International Space Station baked chocolate chip cookies. But baking cookies in space is a little different than baking them on Earth. Plus: a new device called the Exolung can keep air flowing for virtually as long as a diver likes.

8 11, 2019

Cakes, Cookies and Doughnuts: This Week’s YouTube Videos To Watch With Your Kids

By |2019-11-06T13:35:14-05:00November 8, 2019|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , |

This week's videos are (very) loosely themed around desserts - fitting that we're all coming down from the Halloween sugar rush.

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