28 10, 2022

Why Audiences Throw Things At The Stage, Though Obviously They Shouldn’t (Cool Weird Awesome 876)

By |2022-10-28T08:45:22-04:00October 28, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Today in 1883, a bizarre headline in the New York Times: “Actor Demoralized By Tomatoes.” Why have audiences thrown tomatoes and other foods at performers?

27 10, 2022

Farming Robots Are Weeding The Fields With Lasers (Cool Weird Awesome 875)

By |2022-10-27T06:45:50-04:00October 27, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

If you have fields, you almost certainly have weeds. Pulling them can take a lot of time or money, but farmers now have a new way to make that part of the job a lot easier: a weed-zapping robot that uses lasers.

30 10, 2020

Happy Goosey Night, And Mischief Night, And Cabbage Night (Cool Weird Awesome 409)

By |2023-09-04T09:07:00-04:00October 30, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , |

In some areas, Halloween festivities actually start the night before October 31, on a night that goes by a few very unusual names. Plus: how about an unusual lollipop that's far off the beaten trick-or-treating path?

31 10, 2019

Harry Houdini, If You’re Out There, Let Us Know (Cool Weird Awesome 161)

By |2021-06-28T12:26:50-04:00October 31, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

This isn’t just Halloween. It’s also the anniversary of the passing of the legendary illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini, who they say wanted to make the greatest escape of all time... from mortality. Hence why Bess Houdini held seances every Halloween, trying to pick up whatever signals her late husband might be sending out from the hereafter.

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