2 08, 2023

The US Almost Had Coins Worth A Tenth Of A Cent (Cool Weird Awesome 1061)

By |2023-08-02T09:52:02-04:00August 2, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Around this time in 1935, the US government was making a big decision about some small amounts of money: there was a push to create a kind of currency worth a tenth of a cent. 

11 11, 2022

A Comanche Code Talker Sent The First Message From Utah Beach On D-Day (Cool Weird Awesome 886)

By |2022-11-11T08:50:33-05:00November 11, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

For Veterans Day, the story of the Comanche Code Talkers, 17 veterans of the second World War who created an unbroken code in their native language that saved lives and helped the US military effort. 

30 06, 2022

Billy Mills Pulled Off One Of The Greatest Upsets In Olympic History (Cool Weird Awesome 800)

By |2022-06-30T09:58:21-04:00June 30, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Today in 1938, the birthday of Billy Mills, a Marine veteran, activist and runner who won an Olympic gold medal in what’s been called the biggest upset in the history of the Games.

27 01, 2022

String Figures Help Tell Indigenous Stories Across The World (Cool Weird Awesome 704)

By |2022-01-27T06:58:04-05:00January 27, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

For many Native people in the U.S. and beyond, this is a time of year to tell stories with string. Here's a little about how they work, and why in some cultures they're only told in winter.

31 01, 2020

If You Like Hockey, You’ll Like Blind Hockey (Cool Weird Awesome 228)

By |2020-02-01T20:21:19-05:00January 31, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

A growing number of hockey fans are paying attention to blind hockey, where players have either full blindness or 10 percent vision or less. That puts the emphasis on sound. Plus: introducing the Telecaster guitar that's been signed by 16 Navajo code talkers!

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