Cool Stuff Ride Home

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Covering the most interesting and coolest stories that you may have missed around the world in about 15 minutes a day. Cool Stuff Ride Home looks at science, progress, life-hacks, memes, exciting art,... more

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July 02, 2021Fri. 07/02 - The Restaurant Taco Bell Lifted Their Taco Recipe From
The restaurant that inspired Taco Bell, its larger legacy, and the question of authenticity. Plus, the new species of beetle that was discovered in some fossilized dinosaur dung. And the communities of people who devote their time to uncovering the mystery of dogman.

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Links:
How Taco Bell 'stole' the taco (BBC)
Newsletter: The best thing our restaurant critic ate this summer (LA Times)
Perspective | I’m from a Mexican family. Stop expecting me to eat ‘authentic’ food. (Washington Post)
Mitla Cafe – San Bernardino, California - Gastro Obscura (Atlas Obscura)
Taco Bell Wouldn't Exist Without San Bernardino's Mitla Cafe (Eater)
A Triassic Insect Was Found Perfectly Preserved in Dinosaur Poop For The First Time (Science Alert)
Over 200 Million Years Ago, Nature Called. It Was Full of Beetles. (NY Times)
The Dinosaur That Books by Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter, and Garry Parsons (Simon & Schuster)
North American Dogman Project - Research, Cryptid (NADP)
Dogman Encounters (Report your Dogman Encounters Here!)
All About Dogman (r/dogman)
Virgin Galactic to launch Richard Branson on July 11, aiming to beat Jeff Bezos to space (CNBC)
Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson to Beat Jeff Bezos to Space (Gizmodo)
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July 01, 2021Thu. 07/01 - How to Stop A/C's from Warming the Planet
This week has proven we need air conditioners more than ever, but we also need them to be better than ever. Here are some of the innovations being considered. Plus, one of the women from the secret Mercury 13 program at 1960s NASA is finally getting the chance to go to space this month. And the UAE’s Hope orbiter on Mars has picked up something scientists have never before been able to capture on the red planet.

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Links:
How to Prevent Air Conditioners from Heating the Planet (Scientific American)
Heat Pumps Are Ready to Have a Moment (Gizmodo)
Nowhere Is Ready for This Heat (The Atlantic)
Mercury 13 legend Wally Funk will ride with Jeff Bezos to the edge of space (The Verge)
Grapevine, Texas, woman going to space with Jeff Bezos (Spectrum Local News)
Jeff Bezos picks female aerospace pioneer to launch with him (AP)
UAE's Hope Mars orbiter spots elusive aurora on Red Planet (Space)
Visions of the Future posters (NASA JPL)
Joy Generator (NPR)
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19min
June 30, 2021Wed. 06/30 - Why 1980s Nostalgia Films Won't Die
What’s with the on-going trend of horror films and TV shows being set in the 1980s? Is sunscreen worse in the United States compared to Europe? And one of the sports returning to the Olympics next month has a deadly precedent.

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Links:
Screams, slashers and Thatcher: why horror films are going back to the 80s (The Guardian)
Why So Many Modern Horror Movies Are Set In The 1980s (Screen Rant)
Are European Sunscreens Better Than Those in the U.S.? (Discover)
Peak Performance: The Most Hazardous Sport In Olympic History (Mental Floss)
British Mountaineer Kenton Cool's Odd Quest | Outside Online (Outside)
Indoor Weekly: History of Climbing as Olympic Sport (Gripped)
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18min
June 29, 2021Tue. 06/29 - The Underground McDonald's DIY Recipe Guide for Recreating 1960s Menu Items
Why exactly were McDonald’s french fries so good back in the day? Why did they change and can the secret original recipe be recreated? Plus, a new sort of post-post-punk subgenre is emerging in the post-Brexit United Kingdom. And, a completely pointless but wonderful website I discovered last week.

Links:
My Hunt for the Original McDonald's French-Fry Recipe (Atlas Obscura)
McMenu
Grinding It Out by Ray Kroc (Internet Archive)
The New Wave Of Post-Brexit Post-Punk, From Dry Cleaning To Squid (NPR)
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21min
June 28, 2021Mon. 06/28 - A New Extinct Human Species? The Giant Skull Everyone's Talking About
As promised on Friday, more information on the so-called Dragon Man––the recently unveiled 140,000-year-old skull that may be a new species of extinct human. The science behind why all your in-person coffee dates since reopening have been so awkward. And a first-of-its-kind study puts a number on the nonbinary population in the US.

Links:
Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ Skull in China May Add Species to Human Family Tree (NY Times)
Move Over Neanderthals, Newly Discovered ‘Dragon Man’ Might Be Our True Sister Species (Gizmodo)
Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution (The Guardian)
Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery (BBC)
Science 'Dragon Man' skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree Hidden down a (National Geographic)
The neuroscience behind why your brain may need time to adjust to 'un-social distancing' (The Conversation)
The first population estimate of LGBTQ non-binary adults in the US is out. Here's why that's significant. (Washington Post)
Groundbreaking Study Finds Over One Million Nonbinary Adults Live in the U.S. (them.)
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20min
June 25, 2021Fri. 06/25 - 20,000 Years Ago, A Different Coronavirus Epidemic Hit Humanity
Researchers have found evidence of a coronavirus epidemic from 20,000 years ago. A new blood test that can detect fifty different types of cancer. And what the lowercase “i” in Apple products stands for and why they stopped using it.

Links:
A Coronavirus Epidemic Hit 20,000 Years Ago, New Study Finds (NY Times)
20,000 years of coronaviruses (and counting) (Cosmos Magazine)
A Coronavirus Epidemic Hit Humanity 20,000 Years Ago, DNA Study Reveals (Science Alert)
Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out (The Guardian)
Blood test for early detection of cancer: final study results support screening use (Eurek Alert)
Why Apple Products Have An 'i' (Apple Explained, YouTube)
Why The Apple Watch Wasn't Named iWatch (Apple Explained, YouTube)
The Death of Apple's 'i' (Apple Explained, YouTube)
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough
'Under the Banner of Heaven' Miniseries with Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones Greenlit at FX (Collider)
Prophet's Prey (2015) (Showtime)
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ Skull in China May Add Species to Human Family Tree (NY Times)
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20min
June 24, 2021Thu. 06/24 - Astronauts' Dirty Laundry
The growing attempts to put flavor back into our produce because, yes, apparently it left. An update on the lumber industry and what it could mean for the economy overall. And the surprisingly strange things astronauts have done with their dirty laundry, plus the introduction of NASA Tide.

Links:
How farmers and scientists are engineering your food (BBC)
Lumber Prices Are Falling Fast, Turning Hoarders Into Sellers (Wall Street Journal)
Lumber price decline supports Powell's view that inflation will prove temporary (Washington Post)
Mon. 05/10 - Got Wood? America's Mounting Lumber Problem (Kottke Ride Home)
‘NASA Tide’ will be the first-ever laundry detergent for astronauts (Fast Company)
Astronauts' Dirty Laundry (NASA)
What We Do in the Shadows Wellington Paranormal CW Trailer (Gizmodo)
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18min
June 23, 2021Wed. 06/23 - How to Recover from "Zoom Body" + A Big Ol' Comet's a-Comin'
A very big and very strange comet-ish object has entered our solar system. Some tips to help your body recover from a year of virtual learning, working, and socializing. And the two badass twelve-year-old girls going to the Tokyo Olympics for skateboarding.

Links:
A huge comet called 2014 UN271 is heading toward the Sun (Syfy’s Bad Astronomy)
Visitor From Oort Cloud Could Be Among the Largest Comets Ever Documented (Gizmodo)
Unexpected Minor Planet to Visit the Inner Solar System Soon (Kottke)
Extremely eccentric minor planet to visit inner solar system this decade The outskirts of our solar (New Atlas)
Zoom Nearly Broke My Body. Here’s How to Protect Yours (Wired)
Skateboarders Sky Brown & Kokona Hiraki Qualify For 2021 Olympics (Skate World)
Two girls head to the Olympics for skateboarding at age 12 (Upworthy)
Medals and Tokyo skate spots dished out in Des Moines (Olympics)
Honest Trailers | The Fast & The Furious (Honest Trailers, YouTube)
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18min
June 22, 2021Tue. 06/22 - Smart Slime, Supermoons, & Upcycled Food Scraps
How a single-celled yellow slime is changing the way scientists think about intelligence. A new upcycled food label that would let you know when your food has been made with food scraps that would’ve otherwise gone to waste. And everything you need to know about this week’s Strawberry Supermoon.

Links:
This Weirdly Smart, Creeping Slime Is Redefining Our Understanding of Intelligence (Science Alert)
How This Blob Solves Mazes (Wired, YouTube)
'Upcycling' promises to turn food waste into your next meal (The Conversation)
Upcycled food trend turns waste into ingredients found on store shelves (CBS News)
When to See the 'Strawberry Moon,' the Last Supermoon of 2021 (LifeHacker)
Strawberry Moon: Full Moon in June 2021 (Old Farmer’s Almanac)
The Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon and a Marginal Supermoon – NASA Solar System Exploration (NASA)
Moonrise & Moonset Calculator (Old Farmer’s Almanac)
Check out this D&D-style choose-your-own-adventure book from Chuck Tingle (Boing Boing)
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19min
June 21, 2021Mon. 06/21 - How the Pandemic Reshaped the Home of the Future
What will our homes look like in the future and how much has the pandemic shaped that vision? Plus, why are humans so thirsty? And, Brian Eno has found a home for hundreds of his previously unreleased songs.

Links:
America Should Become a Nation of Renters (Bloomberg)
What Will Future Homes Look Like? Filmed in the 1960's - Narrated by Walter Cronkite (16mm Educational Films, YouTube)
The New American House - Post-Pandemic Architecture and Design 2021 (Veranda)
Human Evolution Led to an Extreme Thirst for Water (Scientific American)
Brian Eno Launches His Own Radio Station with Hundreds of Unreleased Tracks: Hear Two Programs (Open Culture)
Brian Eno Launches Sonos Radio Station With Unreleased Music (Pitchfork)
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