Cool Stuff Ride Home

By Cool Stuff Ride Home

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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April 08, 2021Thu. 04/08 - Who Invented the High Five?
Where did the high five come from? Who came up with it? And why has it persisted for so long? Plus, what if we could turn the entire Earth into a telescope? One astronomer has drawn up the plans. And, how bad is blue light for you, really?

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From the archives: The wild, mysterious history of sports' most enduring gesture -- the high five (ESPN)
The Gay History of the High Five (The Advocate)
Who invented the high five? (Getting Better, Together)
An astronomer has come up with a way to use the entire Earth as a telescope: The Terrascope (Syfy)
What Happens to Your Eyes When You Stare at Screens All Day (LifeHacker)
Prince’s ‘Welcome 2 America,’ an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July (NY Times)
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April 07, 2021Wed. 04/07 - The 1970s Clubhouse Precursor
When social media happened over the phone. Have physicists found a new force of nature? And the long-lost Lord of the Rings made-for-TV-movie produced by Soviet Russia.

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The Prototype for Clubhouse Is 40 Years Old, and It Was Built by Phone Hackers (OneZero)
Remote learning isn't new: Radio instruction in the 1937 polio epidemic (The Conversation)
What Did the Old Telephone Network Sound Like? Overview of the Recordings (Evan Doorbell, YouTube)
'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature (BBC)
Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab Finds Hint of New Particles (Quanta Magazine)
Fermilab’s latest muon measurements hint at cracks in the Standard Model (Ars Technica)
Finding From Particle Research Could Break Known Laws of Physics (NY Times)
The long-lost Lord of the Rings adaptation from Soviet Russia is a glorious fever dream (The Verge)
Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years (The Guardian)
The Emoji Story: You should never have this much fun learning about Unicode (Ars Technica)
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April 06, 2021Tue. 04/06 - A New Bacteria Discovered on the ISS That Could Help Grow Plants on Mars
A new bacteria was discovered on the International Space Station and it could mean interesting things for our future on Mars. The latest shortage in the US has left restaurant owners scrambling to catch up. And are seasonal allergies sexist? Of course not. But kind of...

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Sneaky New Bacteria on the ISS Could Build a Future on Mars (Wired)
The New Shortage: Ketchup Can’t Catch Up (Wall Street Journal)
'Botanical Sexism' Could Be Behind Your Seasonal Allergies (Atlas Obscura)
Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4 (A/V Club)
Request download of your Yahoo Answers content (Yahoo)
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20min
April 05, 2021Mon. 04/05 - Vaccine Side Effects: Myths & Tips
Busting some myths and sharing some doctor-backed advice on COVID vaccine side effects. The history of cigarette cards and how they played an important role in World War II. And how narwhal tusks act as a kind of history book, but the most recent chapters are a bit alarming.

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How to Prepare for Your COVID Vaccine & Reduce the Side Effects (LifeHacker)
Possible Side Effects After Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine (CDC)
When Cigarettes Came With a Prize (Study Marry Kill)
Cigarette Cards and Cartophily (Historic UK)
Cigarette Cards Tell History (American Antiquities)
Narwhal Tusks Tell a Troubling Tale (Ars Technica)
Space Jam: A New Legacy | Official Site

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April 02, 2021Fri. 04/02 - When Ships Were Stuck at the Suez Canal for Eight YEARS & a Micronation Was Formed at Sea
It turns out we got lucky with how quickly the Ever Given was freed. The last time the Suez Canal was blocked, it dragged on for eight years and led to the creation of a micro-nation at sea with a separate postal service and even their own Olympic Games. How Finland celebrates Easter with trick-or-treating and Easter Witches. NASA’s InSight lander has observed two strong marsquakes recently, helping us measure the planet’s core, but what are quakes like on a planet without tectonic plates?

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The Last Time the Suez Canal Was Blocked a Utopian Communist Micronation Was Formed at Sea (Vice)
Suez: The Yellow Fleet trapped by the 1967 Arab-Israeli War (Al Jazeera)
Suez Canal Opens, but Shipping Will Be Snarled for Months (Wall Street Journal)
Wandering witches welcome Finnish Easter (This Is Finland)
NASA's InSight Detects Two Sizable Quakes on Mars (NASA JPL)
NASA's Insight spacecraft has recently measured the radius of Mars' core (Syfy)
NASA InSight (@NASAInSight) (Twitter)
'Game of Thrones' Play in the Works for Broadway, Will Revive Iconic Characters (Exclusive) (Hollywood Reporter)
OMEGA MART — “Grand Opening” (Meow Wolf, YouTube)
nonstandard mcdonald's (nonstandard mcdonalds, Twitter)
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19min
April 01, 2021Thu. 04/01 - Slamilton: A Basketball Musical
Could humans evolve to be venomous? The man currently walking from Washington D.C. to New York City and tweeting all the way. The Hamilton/Space Jam mashup you never knew you needed. A brief roundup of corporate April Fools’ Day pranks we definitely didn’t need. And Chipotle is running a burritos and bitcoin contest that is miraculously not an April Fools’ Day prank. I think.

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Humans Will Probably Evolve to Be Venomous Popular Mechanics (Popular Mechanics)
Could humans ever be venomous? (Live Science)
Neil King's twitter thread of his journey (NKingofDC, Twitter)
Slamilton - A Basketball Musical (Full Album) (Psynwav, Youtube)
Slamilton: A Basketball Musical (Psynwav, Bandcamp)
Neutral Bling Hotel (Psynwav, Soundcloud)
April Fools' Day 2021: Duolingo toilet paper, Velveeta skincare and more pranks (CNET)
Where to Get Free and Cheap Burritos for National Burrito Day (LifeHacker)
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Bitcoin millionaires forgetting passwords (Kottke Ride Home)
Enter the Age of the Vaccine Selfie (NY Times)
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19min
March 31, 2021Wed. 03/31 - Why All The Galaxy Carpets In 90s Movie Theaters?
Why did every movie theater in the 90s install that galaxy-themed carpet? A mafia fugitive who got caught by authorities after starting a cooking channel on YouTube. And the theory that the remains of proto-planet Theia may still be residing deep inside the Earth.

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If Y2K-Era Movie Theater Carpets Could Talk (A24)
For years, a mafia fugitive hid from police. Then they spotted his Italian cooking videos on YouTube. (Washington Post)
New theory suggests large blobs of material in Earth's mantle are remnants of protoplanet Theia (Phys.org)
Remains of impact that created the Moon may lie deep within Earth (Science Mag)
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine highly effective in adolescents (The Verge)
Photos: The Great Vaccination Campaign (The Atlantic)
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18min
March 30, 2021Tue. 03/30 - Zombie Brain Cells Keep Going After We Die
The medieval version of the millennial avocado craze––if avocados were only eaten when rotten and commonly referred to with a sexual nickname, anyways. Turns out that after we die, certain “zombie cells” go into overdrive. And the super popular Twitch stream of… a stop sign. Just thousands of people watching a live feed of stop sign that cars never seem to pay attention to.

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The forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (BBC)
There are zombie cells in your brain that go into overdrive after death (Syfy Wire)
'Zombie' genes? Research shows some genes come to life in the brain after death: Post-mortem changes may shed light on important brain studies (Science Daily)
Twitch's hottest new stream is just a stop sign nobody stops at (A/V Club)
Twitch Stop Sign Stream Temporarily Stops After Address Leaks, Neighbors Receive Pizzas (Kotaku)
stopsigncam (Twitch)
11 foot 8 bridge (yovo68, YouTube)
That Gibberish Tweet From US Strategic Command Came From A Child (The Daily Dot)
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18min
March 29, 2021Mon. 03/29 - Why The Lawyer Cat Filter Was a Default on Thousands of Computers
A new fossil analysis that bolsters the theory that primates may have lived alongside dinosaurs––and somehow survived extinction. The high school girl who invented color-changing sutures that show when a wound has become infected. And why the filter made famous from the viral Lawyer Cat video was installed as a default setting on thousands of Dell computers.

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Did ancient primates walk alongside T. rex? New evidence backs up theory. (National Geographic)
Our earliest primate ancestors rapidly spread after dinosaur extinction (Berkeley News)
This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection (Smithsonian Magazine)
That Zoom Call with the Lawyer-Cat, Explained (The New Yorker)
Zoom Cat Lawyer Rod Ponton Has Controversial Prosecutor Past (Insider)
Forever Given
NUMTOT Tinder Is a Dating Site for Transit Nerds (The Atlantic)
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20min
March 26, 2021Fri. 03/26 - We Are All the Big Boat Stuck in the Suez Canal
The gargantuan container ship is still blocking traffic from flowing in the Suez Canal, but it has not stemmed the creativity of people online––from memes to fanfic, here’s your Ever Given round-up. Plus, archaeologists have found the oldest yet discovered mass production brewery. And Grape-Nuts are back! Where did they go and what’s the deal with Grape-Nuts anyways?

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We Are All This Boat Now (Wired)
Suez Canal Blocked After Container Ship Gets Stuck (NY Times)
A Cargo Ship Drew a Giant Dick Pic in the Ocean Then Got Stuck in the Suez Canal (Vice)
Ship blocking Suez Canal prompts flood of memes (Al Jazeera)
Sweet Suez (All_My_Fandoms_Are_Killing_Me, Archive of Our Own) h/t Ryan Broderick
Sea shanty critique (Walter Hickey, Twitter)
Former sailor breaks down the "crash" (@Nature_Grrrl, Twitter)
Suez Canal Authority's dramatic videos of nothing happening (Josh Billinson, Twitter)
Cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal: Children have ideas for how to move it. (Slate)
Is the ship still stuck?
Archaeologists found the oldest mass-production brewery in ancient Egyptian ruins (Boing Boing)
Abydos beer factory: Ancient large-scale brewery discovered in Egypt (BBC)
Grape-Nuts to Offer Refunds to Those Who Overpaid (AARP)
Why You Can't Find Grape-Nuts Anywhere (Vice)
Thu. 12/17 episode about Kellogg Brothers (Kottke Ride Home)
Grape-Nuts Hot: Chorizo - Recipes (Post Consumer Brands)
Pepsi and Peeps Have Joined Forces to Create Marshmallow Soda (People)
Toilet Paper Shortage Could Return Due to Shipping Container Crisis (Bloomberg)
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