Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Mon. 07/26 - An Olympic Medal For Designing Olympic Medals
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Mon. 07/26 - An Olympic Medal For Designing Olympic Medals
A look back at when the Olympics used to give out medals in artistic categories, including the designing of Olympic medals, and the case for why they should bring that back this year in particular. Plus, some more background on how the wildfires on the west coast of Canada and the US are affecting weather and health all the way in New York City and beyond. And, the Cleveland baseball team has officially changed their name––something they used to do quite a bit around the turn of the century.
Sponsor:
- Green Chef, go to GreenChef.com/kottke100 and use code kottke100 to get $100 off including free shipping
Links:
The Olympics Could Be a Covid-19 ‘Super-Evolutionary Event’ (Wired)
Olympic pictogram sequence: The Opening Ceremony highlight for many, but what was it all about? (Olympics)
Olympic Pictograms: Design through History – Media Made Great (Media Made Great)
When the Olympics Gave Out Medals for Making Medals (Mental Floss)
Remember When the Olympics Used to Have an Art Competition? No? (The Atlantic)
2020 Tokyo Olympics: Medals made from recycled metal are unveiled (Washington Post)
How can smoke from West Coast fires cause red sunsets in New York? (The Conversation)
Wildfire Smoke Makes Sun Glow Red in New York City (NY Mag)
The Bootleg Fire Is Now Generating Its Own Weather? (NY Times)
See How Wildfire Smoke Spread Across America (NY Times)
Cleveland's MLB team rebrands as 'Guardians,' dropping 'Indians' name (Washington Post)
Cleveland's baseball team goes from Indians to Guardians (Indian Country Today)
Tokyo Olympics: 13-Year-Old Stars Win Women's Skateboarding (Time) Glenn Fleishman on Twitter Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
View all episodes
By Cool Stuff Ride Home
4.6
729729 ratings
A look back at when the Olympics used to give out medals in artistic categories, including the designing of Olympic medals, and the case for why they should bring that back this year in particular. Plus, some more background on how the wildfires on the west coast of Canada and the US are affecting weather and health all the way in New York City and beyond. And, the Cleveland baseball team has officially changed their name––something they used to do quite a bit around the turn of the century.
Sponsor:
- Green Chef, go to GreenChef.com/kottke100 and use code kottke100 to get $100 off including free shipping
Links:
The Olympics Could Be a Covid-19 ‘Super-Evolutionary Event’ (Wired)
Olympic pictogram sequence: The Opening Ceremony highlight for many, but what was it all about? (Olympics)
Olympic Pictograms: Design through History – Media Made Great (Media Made Great)
When the Olympics Gave Out Medals for Making Medals (Mental Floss)
Remember When the Olympics Used to Have an Art Competition? No? (The Atlantic)
2020 Tokyo Olympics: Medals made from recycled metal are unveiled (Washington Post)
How can smoke from West Coast fires cause red sunsets in New York? (The Conversation)
Wildfire Smoke Makes Sun Glow Red in New York City (NY Mag)
The Bootleg Fire Is Now Generating Its Own Weather? (NY Times)
See How Wildfire Smoke Spread Across America (NY Times)
Cleveland's MLB team rebrands as 'Guardians,' dropping 'Indians' name (Washington Post)
Cleveland's baseball team goes from Indians to Guardians (Indian Country Today)
Tokyo Olympics: 13-Year-Old Stars Win Women's Skateboarding (Time) Glenn Fleishman on Twitter Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
More shows like Cool Stuff Ride Home
View all
This American Life
90,949 Listeners
Stuff You Should Know
77,846 Listeners
Planet Money
30,845 Listeners
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
5,652 Listeners
The Gist
68 Listeners
Something You Should Know
4,171 Listeners
Curiosity Weekly
930 Listeners
Darknet Diaries
7,913 Listeners
Techmeme Ride Home
944 Listeners
The Next Big Idea
1,276 Listeners
Short Wave
6,273 Listeners
The Last Archive
1,832 Listeners
How to Be a Better Human
1,371 Listeners
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
1,675 Listeners
Understood: Who Broke the Internet?
253 Listeners