Cool Stuff Ride Home

Thu. 08/05 - Vaccine APP-rehension

Listen Later

As the tides trend toward requiring vaccinations for entry in more places, what is the landscape of apps and methods to verify vaccination status? Plus, meatball-scented candles from IKEA and two very different commercial space flight updates.

Sponsor:

  • Upstart, upstart.com/kottke

Links:

More than 450 airlines can now use IBM's Digital Health Pass (Quartz)
  • Unvaccinated People Need to Bear the Burden (The Atlantic)
  • Privacy and efficacy concerns remain for New York's vaccine passport apps (NBC News)
  • IKEA Made a Swedish Meatball Scented Candle (Food and Wine)
  • ARROW WEIRD Make Your Home Smell Like Swedish Meatballs With IKEA's New HUVUDROLL Candle (Mental Floss)
  • Ikea's First Smart Air Purifier Comes Camouflaged as a Side Table (Gizmodo)
  • NASA, Boeing Continue Starliner Data Analysis (NASA) 
  • SpaceX is hiring a 'Spaceport Mixologist' to make cocktails (The Verge)
  • 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
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store
    Cool Stuff Ride HomeBy Cool Stuff Ride Home
    • 4.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.6

    4.6

    729 ratings

    More shows like Cool Stuff Ride Home

    View all
    This American Life by This American Life

    This American Life

    90,949 Listeners

    Stuff You Should Know by iHeartPodcasts

    Stuff You Should Know

    77,846 Listeners

    Planet Money by NPR

    Planet Money

    30,845 Listeners

    Stuff To Blow Your Mind by iHeartPodcasts

    Stuff To Blow Your Mind

    5,652 Listeners

    The Gist by Peach Fish Productions

    The Gist

    68 Listeners

    Something You Should Know by Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

    Something You Should Know

    4,171 Listeners

    Curiosity Weekly by Discovery

    Curiosity Weekly

    930 Listeners

    Darknet Diaries by Jack Rhysider

    Darknet Diaries

    7,913 Listeners

    Techmeme Ride Home by Brian McCullough

    Techmeme Ride Home

    944 Listeners

    The Next Big Idea by Next Big Idea Club

    The Next Big Idea

    1,276 Listeners

    Short Wave by NPR

    Short Wave

    6,273 Listeners

    The Last Archive by Pushkin Industries

    The Last Archive

    1,832 Listeners

    How to Be a Better Human by TED

    How to Be a Better Human

    1,371 Listeners

    The Atlas Obscura Podcast by SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura

    The Atlas Obscura Podcast

    1,675 Listeners

    Understood: Who Broke the Internet? by CBC

    Understood: Who Broke the Internet?

    253 Listeners