Puerto Rico’s Festival de las Máscaras Gets Colorful And Loud

If this time of year is a little too drab and grey for your tastes, head to Puerto Rico’s northern coast for Festival de las Máscaras de Hatillo: the Festival of Masks. 

By |2024-12-14T11:28:09-05:00December 28, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

A Guy Carved Slogans Into Giant Boulders To Get People To Think Positive

Today is the birthday of Roger Babson, who once hired stonecutters to carve giant motivational slogans into a series of boulders in Massachusetts during the Great Depression.

By |2024-12-12T06:17:07-05:00July 6, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

The “Mutant Enzyme” That Helps Recycle Plastic

A company called Carbios says it’s been using what it calls a “mutant enzyme” to break plastic down into the components to make new plastic in mere hours.

By |2024-12-08T15:14:11-05:00April 13, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

We Could Make Fuel Kind Of Like Plants Do

Humans have been trying to figure out how to replicate plant photosynthesis for a long time - and we’ve had some successes, but a team at the University of Michigan has taken one of the biggest steps forward, with a process that uses metals as catalysts to turn light, carbon dioxide and water into methane.

By |2024-12-16T08:01:28-05:00January 10, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |
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