Jets Can Burn Less Fuel Thanks To Electric Towing (Cool Weird Awesome 719)

Taxiing accounts for about 5 percent of a jet's fuel consumption, so one way to make flying greener is making taxiing greener, like through an all-electric towing system.

By |2022-02-17T06:49:25-05:00February 17, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

W.C. Handy Laid The Foundation For Modern Music (Cool Weird Awesome 420)

The man known as the Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy, was born on this day in 1873, and it's not exaggerating to say rock and popular music wouldn't have played out the same way without him. Plus: if you have the blues because your cat keeps waking you up in the night, you may want to check out this new cat-friendly bedframe.

By |2023-11-16T10:59:58-05:00November 16, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

The Speed Camera That Thought It Caught A Car Going 437 MPH (Cool Weird Awesome 341)

There was a story out of Italy where a driver got a ticket for driving 437 miles per hour. Since that's almost three times as fast as the car could legitimately go, it's believed to have been a malfunction of a local speed camera. Plus: the creations of cabinet maker Henk Verhoeff aren't malfunctioning, they're meant to be, as the artist put it, "broken and weird."

By |2020-07-14T08:00:01-04:00July 14, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

You Can’t Beat Furniture Grown On The Farm (Cool Weird Awesome 139)

Gavin and Alice Munro run a furniture farm in England. That's right, rather than turning trees into lumber and using that to make chairs, tables and sofas, they shape living trees into furniture, to be more sustainable. Plus: today marks 15 years since the city of Melbourne dedicated a street in honor of the band AC/DC.

By |2019-10-01T09:11:43-04:00October 1, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , |
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