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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February 12, 2021Fri. 02/12 - He Made a Guitar Out of His Uncle's Skeleton
The story of how two brothers gamed the YouTube system thirteen years ago and have since used that method to raise nearly 14 million dollars for charity. An interactive site that simulates the audio experience of being at your favorite bar. Coca-Cola is trying out paper bottles. And the guy who built a functioning guitar out of his dead uncle’s skeleton. For real.

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Project For Awesome 2021
imissmybar.com
I Miss My Bar is like audio therapy for barflies (The Verge)
Coca-Cola company trials first paper bottle (BBC)
Well now: A man has turned his metalhead uncle's bones into a "Skelecaster" guitar (A/V Club)
This Dude Built a Guitar Out of His Dead Uncle's Skeleton (MetalSucks)
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February 11, 2021Thu. 02/11 - Myspace is back!
How the UK variant of Sars-CoV-2 may have evolved inside just one human. Some dating apps are adding video components, but it’s just another case of modern tech “inventing” something that has already existed for decades. Let’s talk about the original recipe. And a German teenager has created a new Myspace. Not like a social media platform similar to Myspace. Literally he recreated a functional clone of Myspace. And it’s pretty awesome.

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A lone infection may have changed the course of the pandemic (Wired)
How 1970s VCR dating paved the way for Tinder and Hinge (Vox)
A Teenager Has Remade Myspace and Everyone Is Loving It (Vice)
spacehey.com/jackisnotabird

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February 10, 2021Wed. 02/10 - The Curious Case of the Purple Daisy Photo
Do all of these UV light “virus-killing” appliances really work? The mystery of the purple flower photo that has accounted for nearly 20% of all Wikimedia Commons traffic since last summer. And, it’s been ten years since “Friday” by Rebecca Black debuted to collective cringe on YouTube. To celebrate, Rebecca Black is back with a remix.

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Does Covid-killing UV tech work? (Wired)
The mysterious photo of a purple flower that receives 78 million hits each day (Rest of World)
Rebecca Black - Friday (Remix) ft Dorian Electra, Big Freedia & 3OH!3 [Official Video] (Rebecca Black, YouTube)
Rebecca Black’s new hyper-pop remix of ‘Friday’ is the serotonin boost you need (NME)
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18min
February 09, 2021Tue. 02/09 - A Hacker Tried to Poison a Town's Water Supply
The scientific benefits of going for regular walks, and some tips for incorporating more walks into your life. The town in Florida whose water was almost poisoned when a nefarious individual hacked into their water supply. The researchers hoping to recycle face masks as roads. And a pandemic-themed spec script roundup.

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Links:
Don't Underestimate the Power of a Walk (Harvard Business Review)
Why Walking Helps Us Think (The New Yorker)
The Errand Friend (Culture Study)
Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk (TED)
High five walking guys (Caleb Stallings, Twitter)
A Hacker Tried to Poison a Florida City's Water Supply (Wired)
Recycling face masks into roads to tackle COVID-generated waste (RMIT)
Spec script roundup (A/V Club)
TV Show Fanfiction (Archive of Our Own)
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19min
February 08, 2021Mon. 02/08 - A Live Animated Stage Production... Wait, what?
How the Royal Shakespeare Company is using live motion capture to animate a virtual show in real time. A case study of a California town who has this whole pandemic response thing down. A 3D printed house has hit the market on Long Island. And there’s actually still more to say about Four Seasons Total Landscaping? Plus some related recommendations.

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Is this an avatar I see before me? Audience takes to stage in virtual Shakespeare play (The Guardian)
Remote actors thread (Brendan Bradley, Twitter)
Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company)
A California University Tries to Shield an Entire City From Coronavirus (NY Times)
A 3D printed house is for sale in New York. Builders say it will cut housing construction costs (CNN)
A 3D-Printed Home Just Popped up on Zillow for a Cool $300,000 (Gizmodo)
Biggest 3D Printed House in America ALMOST COMPLETE Part 3 (Jarett Gross, YouTube)
At Foggy Pine Books, Customers Like Tom Hanks Know Every Book Is An Adventure Waiting To Happen (The Late Show, YouTube)
Opportunity Knocks | Fiverr Big Game Commercial Extended Cut (2021) (Fiverr, YouTube)
Inevitable Four Seasons Total Landscaping doc to be titled Four Seasons Total Documentary (A/V Club)
My Recent Media Diet, the Still Isolated Edition (Kottke)
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19min
February 05, 2021Fri. 02/05 - This Is Your Brain On Juggling
How learning to juggle is the perfect example of what happens to your brain when you learn a new skill. A new literary version of Street Fighter II. Why Burger King France is handing out free potatoes. And, following on yesterday’s story about the fetus album, a three-year-old has written a completely delightful new album with her dad.

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Here’s What Learning to Juggle Does to Your Brain (Wired)
STREET WRITER: The literary video game we didn’t know we needed. (Literary Hub)
The Reason Burger King France Drive-Thrus Are Handing Out Bags Of Potatoes (Mashed)
A 3-year-old wrote a delightful electro-pop album and her dad produced it (Boing Boing)
QuQu by Juni x Dada (Bandcamp)
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18min
February 04, 2021Wed. 02/04 - An Unborn Baby's Debut Album
We were bracing for a flu and COVID double whammy of a winter, but it never came. What happened? An intriguing new community initiative taking off in Europe to help prevent the mounting problem of electronic waste. And have you heard of fetuscore? Ok, it’s not a thing yet. But it may be soon because there’s a new album coming out that was recorded by a baby before she was born.

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The Pandemic Broke the Flu (The Atlantic)
The country rejecting throwaway culture (BBC)
An unborn baby is releasing an album, paving the way for fetuscore (A/V Club)
Unborn Baby Records Debut Album (Consequence of Sound)
Luca Yupanqui: Sounds of the Unborn (Sacred Bones)
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20min
February 03, 2021Wed. 02/03 - Are We Too Cynical for Viral Stunts These Days?
What causes ice ages? The science behind your frying pan. You know, the one that’s supposed to be non-stick but isn’t. Scientists explain why. Other scientists have engineered spinach to send emails. Sort of. And did you hear about the Hollyboob prank? If not, or if you supremely don’t care, it may say more about our current relationship to viral stunts than the stunt in question.

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Ice Ages: What Causes the Earth to Freeze Over Every Few Million Years? (Discover Magazine)
Glad You Asked: Ice Ages – What are they and what causes them? (Utah Geological Society)
The un-ice age (Earthdata, NASA)
Scientists Explain Why Food Still Sticks to Your Stupid Non-Stick Pan (Gizmodo)
Scientists have taught spinach to send emails (Euro News)
Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives (MIT News)
Spinach email joke (Ambrose Persimmon, Twitter)
Why an influencer turned the Hollywood sign into the Hollyboob sign (CNET)
'Hollyboob' and the End of the Viral Stunt (MEL)
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19min
February 02, 2021Tue. 02/02 - How Frozen Helped Solve the Dyatlov Pass Mystery
How a 1970s seat belt crash test and the animated movie Frozen helped potentially solve the 62-year-old Dyatlov Pass mystery. A fascinating correction to something I said yesterday about Langston Hughes. And remembering Captain Sir Tom Moore.

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Has science solved one of history’s greatest adventure mysteries? (National Geographic)
9 Russian Adventurers Mysteriously Froze to Death. A New Theory Explains Why (Wired)
Langston Hughes Just Got a Year Older (New York Times)
Captain Sir Tom Moore dies aged 100 after contracting coronavirus and pneumonia (Sky News)
You'll Never Walk Alone - Captain Tom Moore, Michael Ball & The NHS Voices of Care Choir (Decca Records, YouTube)
05/20 episode featuring Captain Sir Tom Moore (Kottke Ride Home)
Home Movie: The Princess Bride (Kottke)
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19min
February 01, 2021Mon. 02/01 - February's Mars Invasion
Sharing some thoughts from Langston Hughes on this first day of Black History Month, and questioning what makes someone a hero in our history books. Plus, the discovery of a new blue pigment. And all the Mars news for February.

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We Are the American Heartbreak: Langston Hughes on Race in a Rare Recording (Brain Pickings)
Langston Hughes Reads Langston Hughes (Open Culture)
How We Celebrate Black Heroes Can Obscure How Change Happens (NY Times)
13TH (Netflix)
For the First Time in 200 Years, a New Blue Pigment Is Up for Sale (Smithsonian)
Meet YInMn, the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries (Hyperallergic)
YInMn Blues: The Discovery that Startled the World! | Mas Subramanian | TEDxUNC (TEDx, YouTube)
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover landing will be must-see TV (CNET)
NASA Mars Perseverance rover: What to expect on landing day (CNET)
February’s Gonna Be a Big Month for Mars (Wired)
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