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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December 30, 2020Wed. 12/30 - The Cognitive Case for Talking To Yourself
Why talking out loud to yourself is actually an important cognitive skill, or so I’m telling myself. A new population of blue whales with a distinct song was recently discovered in the Indian Ocean. And a new AI that will hilariously and viciously judge your taste in music.

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Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking (Psyche)
A New Population of Blue Whales Was Discovered Hiding in the Indian Ocean (NY Times)
Yes! A Previously Unknown Population of Blue Whales Has Been Heard in The Indian Ocean (Science Alert)
How Bad Is Your Spotify? (The Pudding)
A New Musicians' Union Wants Spotify To Pay Up (WBUR)
Support Artists Impacted by the Covid-19 Pandemic (Bandcamp)
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December 29, 2020Tue. 12/29 - How Humans Began to Read and Write
How is it that humans figured out how to read? New cosmological findings that may finally solve the Hubble tension. And, more monoliths continue to pop up, a look at two of the more interesting ones from this past week.

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Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing (Nautilus)
Language is a tool, a technology (NomeDaBarbarian, Twitter)
Astronomers Get Their Wish, and the Hubble Crisis Gets Worse (Quanta)
Mysterious monolith appears in Pittsfield (WCAX)
Photos of gingerbread monolith (Alexis Gallagher, Twitter)
Christmas Day Wonder: Gingerbread Monolith Mysteriously Appears at SF Park (KQED)
Gingerbread monolith delights San Francisco on Christmas Day (AP)
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16min
December 28, 2020Mon. 12/28 - What If 2020 Was Just One Big MMORPG?
How your brain takes out the trash while you sleep. The English man who crossed the Alps on a space hopper. And a subreddit where over half a million people pretend our world is just one big MMORPG.

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Deep sleep drives brain fluid oscillations (Science)
During deep sleep, the brain does housekeeping (Reuters)
Brain pumps comment (Christopher Mims, Twitter)
Experience: I crossed the Alps on a space hopper (The Guardian)
The Extraordinary Steven Payne Documentary Official Trailer (Regijus Simkevicius, YouTube)
What if life were a video game? These 650,000 people imagine it that way. (Washington Post)
Outside: The free-to-play MMO, on reddit (r/Outside, Reddit)
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17min
December 23, 2020Wed. 12/23 - Leave Out Porridge for Belligerent Elves on Christmas Eve
How Star Wars toys have changed over the years and why it may not be a good thing for kids. What if there were tons of alien civilizations elsewhere in the Milky Way but they’re all long since dead? And the Danish tradition of leaving porridge out on Christmas Eve to bribe mischievous elves.

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Star Wars toys and Mandalorian figures aren't really for kids anymore (Polygon)
How Star Wars used the Force of Fandom to create a merchandising empire (Syfy)
The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations (Live Science)
The Danish Christmas Porridge That Appeased a Vengeful 'House Elf' (Atlas Obscura)
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18min
December 22, 2020Tue. 12/22 - The Holy Pooper & the Curse of the Targeted Butt-flap PJs Ad
Down the rabbit hole of targeted marketing through the lens of some strange, butt-flap onesie pajamas for adults. Don’t trust the sea foam in Australia. And some Catalonian Christmas traditions that are pretty crappy.

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Why are ads for pajamas with a butt flap taking over the internet? (Business Insider)
Why Is This Woman's Left A-- Cheek Following Me Around the Internet? (Vice)
The Pajamas Suit lets you pretend you’re dressing up for a Zoom meeting (The Verge)
Sea snakes may be lurking in foam covering storm-lashed Australian beaches (The Guardian)
El Caganer – Barcelona, Spain (Atlas Obscura)
A traditional Nativity scene, Catalan-style (BBC)
World's Largest El Caganer, 19-Foot Tall Defecating Giant in Barcelona (Laughing Squid)
The Crowning Jewel of Catalonia’s Nativity Scene (Great Big Story, YouTube)
Tió de Nadal – Barcelona, Spain (Atlas Obscura)
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18min
December 21, 2020Mon. 12/21 - How Will Movie Theaters Stay Afloat Post-Pandemic?
What will movie theaters look like in a post-pandemic world? And what do companies need to do to weather the storm? New research that suggests our early human ancestors could have hibernated. And the pyrotechnic German punch that Atlas Obscura describes as “mulled wine’s metal cousin.”

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How movie theaters will survive beyond the Covid-19 era (Quartz)
Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating (The Guardian)
The Flaming Cocktail Cauldrons of German Christmas (Atlas Obscura)
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18min
December 18, 2020Fri. 12/18 - The Business of X-Mas Trees & How COVID Changed Science
Some ways that COVID could change science forever––both good and bad. The business of Christmas trees and why we’re still seeing the effects of the Great Recession in tree prices today. And a site that plays ambient noise from the forests of the world.

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COVID-19 Changed Science Forever (The Atlantic)
How Christmas trees are made, explained by a tree farmer (Vox)
We Buy a Lot of Christmas Trees (NPR)
America's Great Recession is still affecting Christmas tree sales (Business Insider)
Tune Into Forests From Around The World 🌳🔈 (tree.fm)
'Christmas Star' will be closest visible conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 800 years (NBC News)
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19min
December 17, 2020Thu. 12/17 – Snowflake Toast & The Sound of a Perfect Fluid
Physicists have measured sound diffusion in a perfect fluid for the first time ever and created a surprisingly popular SoundCloud track. A bunch of new works are entering the public domain in just a few weeks. And the Kellogg brothers are best remembered for inventing cornflakes, but in their time they were known for a number of other odd foods; a look at their B-side, including snowflake toast and the world’s first patented meat substitute.

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Links:
Physicists capture the sound of a “perfect” fluid (MIT News)
Public Domain Day 2021 (Duke Law Center for the Study of Public Domain)
Before Avocado Toast, There Was Snowflake Toast (Atlas Obscura)
We're Entering a New Age of Meatless Meat Today. But We've Been Here Before (Smithsonian Magazine)
Corn Flakes | The Brothers of Battle Creek | 1 (American Innovations)
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17min
December 16, 2020Wed. 12/16 - What Pfizer Can Learn From Dippin’ Dots
Genetically-engineered pigs have gotten the all clear. Digging into the field of galactic archaeology. And how Dippin’ Dots can help us better understand the leading COVID-19 vaccines, and may play a role of their own.

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FDA approves genetically engineered pigs (The Verge)
Gene editing has made pigs immune to a deadly epidemic (MIT Technology Review)
Galactic archaeology: astronomers are using stars as fossils to study the Milky Way (Horizon Magazine)
What the Dippin’ Dots ‘cold chain’ can teach us about COVID-19 vaccines (Popular Science)
The world's now scrambling for dry ice. It's just one headache in getting coronavirus vaccines where they need to go (CNN)
A vial, a vaccine and hopes for slowing a pandemic — how a shot comes to be (Washington Post)
Dippin' Dots Cryogenics (Dippin’ Dots)
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18min
December 15, 2020Tue. 12/15 – The Origins of the Emoticon
What are tone indicators? Where do they come from, how are they used, and a look at both the pre-internet history of tone indicators as well as the origin of the emoticon. And, a question for the ages, what was the deal with the leg lamp in A Christmas Story?

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Tone Indicators and How to Use Them (NY Times)
"Joke" Conversation Thread in which the :-) Was Invented (Carnegie Mellon)
Here's some historical background on A Christmas Story's leg lamp (A/V Club)
Leg lamp Halloween costume and more (Josh Sundquist, Instagram)
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