3 01, 2022

Kugel Balls Are Huge And Heavy But We Can Move Them (Cool Weird Awesome 686)

By |2022-01-03T09:09:37-05:00January 3, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Around this time in 2003, the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond introduced a new attraction: a 29 ton globe that people can push around. Here's a look at the mechanics behind Kugel Balls. 

26 11, 2020

When The Macy’s Parade Rickrolled Thanksgiving (Cool Weird Awesome 428)

By |2021-10-19T10:56:38-04:00November 26, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

It really happened! On Thanksgiving 2008, a float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade came to a halt, there was a record scratch, and none other than Rick Astley came out to perform "Never Gonna Give You Up." Plus: a pianist in Thailand is never going to give up his very unusual audience.

27 10, 2020

Can AI Bring Extinct Languages Back To Life? (Cool Weird Awesome 406)

By |2020-10-27T07:58:44-04:00October 27, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

A project out of MIT is using artificial intelligence to scan lost languages and find rules and conventions that may help us figure out what all those words from years ago might mean. Plus: historic signs in South Nyack, New York are using QR codes to tell us something timeless - a message that's never gonna give us up.

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