Last week was school spring break where I live, so today all the families are back to packing backpacks, putting homework in folders and packing lunches.  Maybe next spring break we should head to Columbus, Georgia to visit the Lunchbox Museum. Plus: today in 1920, the birthday of Theron Holland, who had an enormous collection of Native American arrowheads and stone artifacts, more than 70,000 in all. 

A Nostalgic Trip Awaits at the World’s Largest Lunchbox Museum (Smithsonian)

Theron Holland had a collection of like 70,000 arrowheads (The Vanishing Ozarks via Instagram)

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This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about the old ball game. In this episode from August 2021, the story of a very strange thing that happened in a baseball game: a guy on second base ran backwards and stole first base, the base he'd just been on. Plus: why some people end up celebrating music legend Louis Armstrong's birthday a month late.

Germany Schaefer (Society for American Baseball Research)

FAQ (Louis Armstrong House via Archive.org)

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This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about the old ball game. In this episode from May 2021, an 11 year old pitcher in upstate New York, Katie Brownell, brings her A-game to the Little League field. She not only pitches a perfect game, she strikes out all 18 batters she faces! Plus: Houston's famous

Meet Katie Brownell, the girl who once struck out 18 batters in a perfect Little League game (MLB.com)

Houston Art Car Parade

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This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about the old ball game. In this episode from July 2020, we celebrate Leroy "Satchel" Paige, perhaps the most legendary pitcher baseball ever saw. Paige was a star for decades, and once pitched three scoreless innings in the major leagues at age 59. Plus: we'll visit the man who earned the world's first degree in ninja studies. 

Fifty years ago, Satchel Paige pitched his last big-league game in KC ... at age 59 (Kansas City Star)

Meet the Japanese man who holds the world's only master's degree in ninja studies (CNN)

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This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about the old ball game. In this episode from March 2019, we hear about the first pro ump in the big leagues. When Billy McLean wasn't calling balls and strikes, he was occasionally challenging hecklers to fistfights.

The first major-league umpire was a Philadelphian (Philly.com)

This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about the old ball game. In this episode from October 2021, we remember the iconic World Series moment when Carlton Fisk waved his game-winning home run fair. The legendary clip was caught by the camera kind of by accident. Plus: a couple in the UK gets a ticket because a traffic camera caught their car driving in the bus-only lane, except that they weren't in the bus-only lane. Or in a car. Or in that city. 

How Carlton Fisk's 1975 home run changed TV sports forever (Boston Globe)

Bus lane camera mistakes woman's sweater for number plate (BBC)

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Dad jokes may not be good jokes, but they may be good for us: a study from The British Psychological Society shows how telling a very simple, groan-inducing joke is a pretty complex process. Plus: why scientists in Germany are naming their new anti-fungal compounds after Keanu Reeves.

'Dad jokes? That’s the way eye roll…’ (British Psychological Society)

Keanumycins: Keanu Reeves inspires name of newly-discovered fungus-killing bacteria (Esquire)

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A team at the University of Manchester has developed a kind of “cosmic concrete” for building structures on Mars - and the key ingredient comes from potatoes. Plus: today in 1991, the Wall Street Journal reported on an unusual training session for the Seattle Police Department.

Scientists develop a ‘cosmic concrete’ that is twice as strong as regular concrete (University of Manchester)

Seattle Police Head Back to Class For a Course in Chair-Sitting 101 (Wall Street Journal)

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The University of Cambridge did a study about robotic wellbeing coaches. And it turns out that if we want robots to help us help ourselves… they need to be cute. Plus: NASA has developed a “space cup” which will hold liquids on the International Space Station even without a lid!

Robots can help improve mental wellbeing at work – as long as they look right (University of Cambridge)

NASA's sci-fi space cup holds a drink without gravity (Mashable)

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