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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October 16, 2020Fri. 10/16 - Will Plastic Bubbles Save Live Music? The Flaming Lips Think So.
More and more humans these days have an extra artery. The 2020 Tony Award nominations and the very strange case of Mr. Aaron Tveit. A calculator that will tell you how much time you’re wasting in your day not listening to podcasts. And The Flaming Lips have a plan to bring concerts back, responsibly.

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Links:
More Humans Are Growing an Extra Artery in Our Arms, Showing We're Still Evolving (Science Alert)
2020 Tony Award Nominations: Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Slave Play Lead the Pack (Playbill)
The 2020 Tony nominations have been announced, and they’re the weirdest ever (Washington Post)
Review: ‘The Lightning Thief,’ a Far Cry From Olympus (New York Times)
The Podcast Calculator is here to fill up your "dead time" (A/V Club)
Podcast Calculator - Reclaim the Dead Time (OmniCalculator)
The Flaming Lips are testing out bubble concerts (A/V Club)
Interview: The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Talks 'American Head,' COVID-19, Audience Bubbles & More (JamBase)
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16min
October 15, 2020Thu. 10/15 – 50/50 Odds We Live In a Simulation, New Study Finds
A new study puts our odds of living in a simulation at about 50-50. So, that’s a thing. There has been a second sighting of a person on a jetpack flying through LAX’s flight path. And tips to curb your phone habit, adapted from methods used to quit smoking.

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Links:
Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50 (Scientific American)
LAX reports another sighting of person wearing jet pack (LA Times)
A jetpack at LAX? Maybe. Jetpacks are very real (LA Times)
Quit Your Phone Addiction Using Methods That Work for Smokers (Better Humans)
Unflattering Dog Photo Challenge (Twitter)
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19min
October 14, 2020Wed. 10/14 - Can Virtual Public Parks Save Democracy?
A thought-provoking proposal from Eli Pariser on how we can fix the broken parts of the internet by creating digital public parks. NASA drops their latest single: the sounds of the Milky Way. And how to make your own AR jack o’lantern using an Amazon Prime box.

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Links:
To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks (Wired)
Data Sonification: Sounds from Around the Milky Way (NASA)
How to View Augmented Reality Experiences Hiding on Your Amazon Boxes (LifeHacker)
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16min
October 13, 2020Tue. 10/13 - A Star Spaghettified By a Black Hole (Yes, that's the technical term)
What’s up with all those merpeople and sea monsters on old maps? Why Peru opened up Machu Picchu after seven months for one single man to visit. The supermassive black hole that spaghettified a star. And the Anti-Ad Ad Club paying influencers to trash talk corporations.

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Links:
Why Did Renaissance Europeans See Merpeople Everywhere? (Literary Hub)
In 1562 Map-Makers Thought America Was Full of Mermaids, Giants, and Dragons (Atlas Obscura)
Peru opens Machu Picchu for a single Japanese tourist after almost seven-month wait (Reuters)
After a 7-Month Wait, This Tourist Got Machu Picchu All To Himself (NY Times)
ESO telescopes record last moments of star devoured by a black hole (Science Daily)
Astronomers get a front row seat to a star getting torn apart by a huge black hole (Bad Astronomy)
Get paid for shitting on Amazon, Facebook, and other big brands (A/V Club)
Anti Ad Ad Club

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21min
October 12, 2020Mon. 10/12 - The Indigenous Practice of Controlled Burning to Prevent Wildfires
It’s Indigenous People’s Day today. How and when did this start becoming a thing? How west coast governments are finally turning to tribal leaders for assistance preventing wildfires. A serious collaboration between Weird Al Yankovic and Portugal. the Man. And an interactive website that shows you a global map of tribal territories and languages.

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Links:
The Native History of Indigenous Peoples Day (Yes Magazine)
Indigenous Peoples Day: 4 Things to Know (Teen Vogue)
Native America Calling

All My Relations

This Land

Suppressing Indigenous Knowledge Created Uncontrollable Wildfires (Bitch Media)
Alarmed by Scope of Wildfires, Officials Turn to Native Americans for Help (NY Times)
Portugal. the Man, 'Weird Al' Yankovic Team Up for 'Who's Gonna Stop Me' (Rolling Stone)
Portugal. The Man on music, stardom, indigenous rights and playing only 'live instruments' at CRSSD Festival (San Diego Union Tribune)
Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land

'I regret it': Hayden King on writing Ryerson University's territorial acknowledgement (CBC)
Indigenous Land Acknowledgement, Explained (Teen Vogue)
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19min
October 09, 2020Fri. 10/09 - What OS Do They Use In Space?
What kind of operating system do they use in space? The science behind cocktails, to up your at-home mixology game. The 22-year-old responsible for the most viral beats on Tiktok. And the Connecticut mayor who isn’t taking any of John Oliver’s crap.

Links:
Definitely not Windows 95: What operating systems keep things running in space? (Ars Technica)
Cocktail Chemistry: 10 Science-Backed Tips for the Perfect Drink (Discover Magazine)
Good Drinks: Alcohol-Free Recipes for When You're Not Drinking for Whatever Reason (Kottke, Bookshop)
Meet Ricky Desktop, the most viral beatmaker on TikTok (The Verge)
Danbury to Name Sewage Plant After John Oliver If He Visits (Vulture)
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21min
October 08, 2020Thu. 10/08 – 1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Wrote About Evolution
The Islamic scholars who beat Darwin to the punch by about a thousand years. A cool site for finding new books to read. The world’s largest ouija board. And naked celebrities teaching us about naked ballots.

Links:
A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection (Vice)
Whichbook | A new way of choosing what book to read next

World's Largest Ouija Board (Rob Allam, Twitter)
World’s Largest Ouija Board Unveiled in Salem, Massachusetts (Mental Floss)
OUIJAZILLA! (Talking Boards Historical Society)
These Naked Celebs Have an Important Message for Voters (Represent Us, YouTube)
"IMPORTANT" (2016 GOTV celebrity video) (Save the Day, YouTube)
Nude celebrities ask you to read mail-in ballot instructions (A/V Club)
'Naked Ballot' Rule Raises Worries For Pennsylvania Voters (NPR)
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19min
October 07, 2020Wed. 10/07 - Paid to Gate-Crash Funerals
The twenty-four possible super-habitable planets that could be better than Earth. The man you can pay to gatecrash your funeral. The perfect conclusion to the skateboarding cranberry juice trend, and what the heck that trend was. And the winner of Fat Bear Week 2020.

Links:
Scientists Have Identified 24 Possible 'Superhabitable' Planets (Vice)
'Coffin confessor' Bill Edgar paid to gatecrash Queensland funerals and speak up for the dead (ABC)
Cranberry Juice Skateboarder Gets Surprised With A New Truck Full Of Juice From Ocean Spray (Digg)
The Internet Has An Embarrassing, Dancing Mexican Uncle In Tío TikTok (Mitú)
All Hail 747, Your Hefty Fat Bear Champion of 2020 (Earther)
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18min
October 06, 2020Tue. 10/06 - Asbestos: The Secret Weapon Against Climate Change?
How the pandemic is changing our taste in music. The most ironic thing that could happen to a newly-published book titled Word Perfect. How asbestos might actually be a weapon against the climate crisis. And a Rocky Horror Picture Show-themed monument in New Zealand.

Links:
Is Pandemic Brain Changing Your Taste in Music? You're Not Alone (Vice)
"Music is 5x as good right now" (Demi Adejuyigbe, Twitter)
Famed lexicographer's new book "Word Perfect" released with a ton of typos (Boing Boing)
Asbestos could be a powerful weapon against climate change (you read that right) (MIT Technology Review)
There's a park in New Zealand dedicated to Riff Raff from ROCKY HORROR (Boing Boing)
Riff Raff (Visit Hamilton)
RiffRaffStatue.org

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19min
October 05, 2020Mon. 10/05 - Vending Machine Operators Are Trending
Archaeologists have found evidence of neurons in the brain of a Mount Vesuvius victim that basically turned to glass. The latest entrepreneurial trend of the pandemic taking off, in part thanks to influencers? Vending machine ownership. A Wikipedia hack for learning new-to-you complex topics. And another U.S. president whose illness had the potential to throw the nation into chaos.

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Links:
Archaeologists find evidence of neurons in glassy brain of Vesuvius victim (Ars Technica)
The economics of vending machines (The Hustle)
Simple Wikipedia

George Washington nearly died from the flu. (Washington Post)
George Washington (Brad Neeley, YouTube)
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17min

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