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Bah Gawd It’s A Smart Cane (Cool Weird Awesome 132)

Posted on September 20, 2019
Brady Carlson

The weWALK is a smart cane for blind pedestrians, with ultrasonic sensors to detect obstacles ahead and Google Maps connections to navigate through and describe the surrounding area. Plus: if you like pickles, the Big Dill festival is back this weekend in Baltimore.

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Scooby-Doo And Those Meddling Kids Started Solving Groovy Mysteries 50 Years Ago (Cool Weird Awesome 127)

Posted on September 13, 2019
Brady Carlson

It’s the 50th anniversary of the premiere of “Scooby Doo, Where Are You?” That’s right, the Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby have been setting traps, being danger prone, dropping glasses, making gigantic sandwiches and solving mysteries for a half-century. But originally the show was going to be very different.

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How About We Put Shade Plants Under Solar Panels? (Cool Weird Awesome 126)

Posted on September 12, 2019
Brady Carlson

There’s work out of the University of Arizona that says solar arrays can be even more efficient if you grow food underneath the panels. And no, the panels don’t block the plants from growing by taking all the sun. Plus: Chandler, Arizona is hosting the Rockin’ Taco Street Fest, which finally combines the goodness of tacos with lucha libre pro wrestling.

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The Kansas Town Where Even Popeye Got His Spinach (Cool Weird Awesome 122)

Posted on September 6, 2019
Brady Carlson

It’s Spinach Festival weekend in Lenexa, Kansas, a time for games, crafts, music, the world’s largest spinach salad and a visit from noted cartoon spinach addict Popeye the sailor. That’s fitting, since it was Popeye’s popularity that helped make Lenexa’s spinach famous in the first place.

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Ketchup Packets Last Somewhere Between Nine Months And Forever (Cool Weird Awesome 110)

Posted on August 21, 2019
Brady Carlson

Little sauce packets. We hang onto them because they’re too small to notice much, or because we don’t want to throw them out if they haven’t been used. But at some point they have to spoil, right? We now have a pretty definitive answer on their shelf lives.

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Elvis Almost Threw Down At A Wisconsin Gas Station (Cool Weird Awesome 102)

Posted on August 9, 2019August 9, 2019
Brady Carlson

Elvis Week is getting underway in Memphis, Tennessee, and while I can’t be there, I can still celebrate, because my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin is where the King once broke up a fight at a gas station in the middle of the night.

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The Festival That’s Mostly People Throwing Tomatoes At Each Other (Cool Weird Awesome 100)

Posted on August 7, 2019August 7, 2019
Brady Carlson

Later this month tens of thousands of people will head to Buñol, Spain for La Tomatina, otherwise known as the world’s largest tomato throwing festival. Also, today is day one of the World Yo Yo Contest in Cleveland, Ohio. But most of all, it’s Cool Weird Awesome’s 100th episode! Thanks for listening and supporting the show!

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Meet Owney, The Legendary Postal Dog (Cool Weird Awesome 92)

Posted on July 26, 2019July 26, 2019
Brady Carlson

The National Postal Museum in Washington, DC, has an exhibit telling the story of Owney, the dog who loved the mail so much that he helped deliver it all over the world.

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

Posted on July 12, 2019August 9, 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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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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