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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January 29, 2021Fri. 1/29 - What Your Tone of Voice Could Say About Your Music Taste
What did everyday Romans in Pompeii eat? An archaeologist has tried to reconstruct their meals. Merriam-Webster has added 520 new words to the dictionary. How do they decide which words get added? And a sci-fi dictionary to explore this weekend. Plus, Spotify wants to try to guess your music taste based on the tone of your voice.

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Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii (Atlas Obscura)
2000-Year-Old Snack Bar Unearthed in Pompeii (Kottke)
We Added New Words to the Dictionary for January 2021 (Merriam-Webster)
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

Spotify wants to suggest songs based on your emotions (BBC)
New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music (Pitchfork)
‘Just The Way You Are’: Music Listening and Personality (Spotify)
Techmeme Ride Home

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January 28, 2021Thu. 1/28 - Legal Protections for Sounds & Smells in France
The mathematics of knitting. How France is trying to legally protect smells. A cautionary tale that will inspire you to go check on your office building if you’ve been working from home and no one’s done that for a few months. And a horrifying new product from Kraft Mac and Cheese.

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How one physicist is unraveling the mathematics of knitting (Science News)
The Sights, Sounds, and Smells of Rural France May Soon Be Protected by Law (Atlas Obscura)
This Startup Left Its Office When Covid Hit. The New Tenants? 20,000 Bees (Inc.) h/t Today In Tabs

Bees Swarm Times Square Hot-Dog Stand (NY Times)
Kraft Launches Pink Mac and Cheese for Valentine's Day That Tastes Like … Candy? (NBC Chicago)
Kraft Is Releasing A Pink Candy-Flavored Mac And Cheese For Valentine's Day, And The Internet Is Losing Its Mind (BuzzFeed)
Thu. 11/12 - How Many Holes Does a Straw Have? (Kottke Ride Home)
Topology 101: The Hole Truth (Quanta)
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18min
January 27, 2021Wed. 1/27 - Putting Your Money In GameStop is Old News
A brief dip into the GameStop Wall Street mayhem. A new water-is-wet kind of study proving that money indeed can buy you happiness. And the story of some students who just found out their new professor this semester has been dead for two years.

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How GameStop found itself at the center of a groundbreaking battle between Wall Street and small investors (The Guardian)
Happy birthday, Guy Fieri (Garbage Day)
Send This to Anyone Who Wants to Know WTF Is Up With GameStop Stock (Vice)
Brief GameStop explainer and updates (William LeGate, Twitter)
The First National Bank of GameStop (Kottke)
Can Money Buy You Happiness? Yes, But There's a Catch (Bloomberg)
Dead Man Teaching (Chronicle)
Teacher tweets (Aaron Ansuini, Twitter)
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17min
January 26, 2021Tue. 1/26 - Werner Herzog on Skateboarding
New DNA analysis upends some long held assumptions about the evolutionary background of dire wolves. How Adobe Flash broke an entire railway system. Astronomers have discovered a sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system. Say that six times fast… And the definitive Werner Herzog interview on… skateboarding.

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Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal (Scientific American)
Dire Wolves Were Real (Scientific American)
Dire wolves were real—and even stranger than we thought (National Geographic)
When Adobe Stopped Flash Content From Running It Also Stopped A Chinese Railroad (Jalopnik)
'Sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system' discovered whirling through the Milky Way (Space)
DISCUSSING SKATEBOARDING WITH FILMMAKER WERNER HERZOG (Jenkem)
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19min
January 25, 2021Mon. 1/25 - The Moon Rock in Biden's Oval Office: A History
The word “robot” was coined one hundred years ago today in a play about robots taking over the world. Good thing that hasn’t happened yet! ...right? The story behind the moon rock in President Biden’s newly redesigned Oval Office. And the first-known tyrannosaur embryo fossils have been found, shedding new light on the T-Rex’s cousins.

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On the 100th Anniversary of ‘Robot,’ They’re Finally Taking Over (Wall Street Journal)
The Czech Play That Gave Us the Word ‘Robot’ (The MIT Press Reader)
Moon rock origins thread (Dr. Robin George Andrews, Twitter)
A look inside Biden's Oval Office (Washington Post)
Baby tyrannosaurs dinosaurs were the 'size of a Border Collie' (BBC)
Baby tyrannosaurs were about the same size as a dog (CNN)
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19min
January 22, 2021Fri. 1/22 - The Swedish Secret to Happy, Productive Work Days
NASA trained an AI to detect craters on Mars. A possible discovery of giant prehistoric carnivorous worms. A new Swedish practice to adopt. And a mobile site that will match you with your film critic soulmate.

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NASA Is Training an AI to Detect Fresh Craters on Mars (Wired)
Researchers Say They've Found Ancient Dens of Giant Carnivorous Worms (Gizmodo)
Is This a Fossilized Lair of the Dreaded Bobbit Worm? (Wired)
This four-letter word is the Swedish key to happiness at work (Quartz)
Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break, with Recipes for Pastries, Breads, and Other Treats by Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall
Swedish fika series (Sweden, YouTube)
Find Your Film Soulmate with Movie Critic Matchmaker (Nerdist)
Movie Critic Matchmaker

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17min
January 21, 2021Thu. 1/21 - Biophilic Recharge Rooms for Healthcare Workers
Recharge Rooms are helping frontline healthcare workers cope with the continued toll the pandemic is taking on their well-being. How bats are helping scientists create better biologging instruments and the discoveries being made with the technology. The nonprofit working on a coast-to-coast, entirely off-road bike trail across the US. And the inevitable generator that transports Senator Bernie Sanders and his folding chair anywhere in the world.

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Links:
These Recharge Rooms Are Helping Health Care Workers Cope (Wired)
Seals With High-Tech Hats Are Collecting Climate Data in the Antarctic (Smithsonian)
Today I learned bats are trendsetters in tracking tech (The Verge)
Weird West Tale Books by Mike Resnick
A new way to travel across the US (BBC)
Great American Rail-Trail (Rails to Trails)
Next Stop Adventure zines (Matt Gauck, Etsy)
A Website That Lets You Add Bernie Sanders Sitting at the Inauguration to Any Location on Google Maps (Laughing Squid)
Put Bernie Anywhere! (Nick Sawhney)
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18min
January 20, 2021Wed. 1/20 - Baby Megalodons & The Muppet Gatsby
New findings into the cannibalism and sheer size of baby megalodons. Teaching AIs to become our teachers. And The Great Gatsby has only been in the public domain for twenty days and things are already getting weird.

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Baby Megalodons Were 6-Foot-Long Womb Cannibals, Study Suggests (NY Times)
AI can solve Rubik's cube—and tell us how it did it. (Fast Company)
Vampire Great Gatsby? Fitzgerald's classic novel gets an undead spin now that it's in the public domain (CNET)
For ‘Gatsby’ fans, 2021 will be the start of remakes. First up: ‘Nick’ (Washington Post)
The Great Gatsby Performed By NPR's Planet Money (NPR)
Somebody wrote a 104-page Gatsby adaptation for the Muppets (A/V Club)
Muppet Show coming to Disney Plus in February 2020 (A/V Club)
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17min
January 19, 2021Tue. 1/19 - Should Sea Shanty TikTok Take Its Leave and Go?
A synthetic cornea implant has successfully helped a legally blind man regain his sight. Team USA and Team Canada women’s hockey players can’t stop falling in love and living happily ever after together. And a deep dive into the briny waters of the sea shanty trend––how it started, some standout covers, why the trend has taken off, and if we should even care.

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Synthetic cornea helped a legally blind man regain his sight (Engadget)
Team USA and Team Canada Women's Hockey Players Keep Marrying Each Other (them.)
Why TikTok (and Everyone Else) Is Singing Sea Chanteys (Wired)
The Scottish postman behind 'Sea Shanty TikTok' (BBC)
Tiktok: The Sea shanty 'Wellerman' has gone viral (Polygon)
"All Star" shantified (Basscho, TikTok)
Original Nathan Evans "Wellerman" dueted (Johnny Stewart, TikTok)
Kermit "Wellerman" (artmonkeyworld, TikTok)
C++ Shanty (Josh Millard, Metafilter)
COVID-19 Vaccine Shanty (Tim Blais, TikTok)
Sea shanties like the Wellerman are trending on TikTok (Vox)
Why we're singing shanties in a high-stress state (Dan Olson, Twitter)
Decemberists burn (Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Twitter)
Microwave Tok (Shmangomungo, TikTok)
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20min
January 18, 2021Mon. 1/18 - When the FBI Spied on Martin Luther King Jr.
Several of the women who influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and left their own marks on the civil rights movement. A new documentary tracking the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent Black activists, using documentation recently released by the National Archives. And a run-down of the many ways this week’s US Presidential Inauguration will differ from years past.

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From Coretta Scott King to Ella Baker: These women's ideas were key to MLK's work (NBC News)
Documentary Exposes How The FBI Tried To Destroy MLK With Wiretaps, Blackmail (NPR)
When the FBI Spied on MLK (The Atlantic)
The FBI and Martin Luther King (The Atlantic)
The Filmmaker as Historian: Sam Pollard and ‘MLK/FBI’ (NY Times)
How LA's Amanda Gorman became Biden's inauguration poet (LA Times)
Inauguration Playlist (Biden Inaugural, Twitter)
What Time Does The Inauguration Start? And What Else To Know : Biden Transition Updates (NPR)
Inauguration Guide: Schedule of Events, Performances and How to Watch (Wall Street Journal)
Inauguration Schedule (Biden Inaugural)
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19min

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