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Wed. 07/13 - When Coal Was "Un-American"

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What can the slow and timid adoption of coal in the US tell us about the transition to solar and wind power? Plus, this newly-discovered dinosaur sheds some light on why T-Rexes had those tiny li’l arms. And, when cities welcome physical monuments to fictional pop culture characters.

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    • Links:

    When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said 'No Thanks' (Smithsonian Magazine)
  • Fraud, Failure, and Frustration: This Is the Story of America's First Energy Transition (The Atlantic)
  • Weird Old Book Finder
  • Old episode about the Weird Old Book Finder (Cool Stuff Ride Home)
  • Behold Meraxes, Argentina’s Ancient ‘Giant Dragon’ (Atlas Obscura)
  • Newly discovered dinosaur had tiny arms like T. rex (National Geographic)
  • Newly Discovered Giant Predatory Dinosaur Had Tiny Arms, But It's Not Related to T. Rex (ScienceAlert)
  • Albuquerque Erecting Statues of Walter White And Jesse Pinkman (IGN)
  • Netflix knows you miss Eddie Munson, so they immortalized him in an Indiana cornfield (Mashable)
  • Old episode about less-popular recipes from the Kelloggs brothers (Cool Stuff Ride Home)
  • The Fake 2000s Yo-Yo Career of 'What We Do In the Shadows' Mark Proksch (Cool Stuff Ride Home)
  • The 1920s Transgender Clinic Destroyed By the Nazis (Cool Stuff Ride Home)
  • Who Invented the High Five? (Cool Stuff Ride Home)
  • Why All The Galaxy Carpets In 90s Movie Theaters? (Cool Stuff Ride Home)
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter

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