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Cool Stuff Daily
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Cool Stuff Daily covers the most interesting and coolest stories in the world of science, progress, life-hacks, memes, exciting art, and hope. This is the antidote to depressing headlines. Smart stuff in podcast form. Cool news, as a service.
Hosted by Zach Morris.
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The Footprints Rewriting American History & Is Dairy REALLY Causing Your Bad Dreams?
Jul 1, 202500:15:43Tap to summarizeBuried for 23,000 years: These footprints are rewriting American history Is cheese secretly fueling your nightmares? Science weighs in Contact the Show: coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Can Vagus Nerve Stimulation Legitimately Treat Depression? & A Coastline Restoration Project Gone Wrong
Jun 30, 202500:19:59Tap to summarizeWhy protecting your vagus nerve is key to optimal mental health China’s massive coastal restoration project could backfire Contact the Show: coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Reanimating Brain Tissue from Cryogenic Preservation, 46,000-Year-Old Worm Revived, Mummy Smells, and TDIH - Galileo Banned from Teaching
Feb 26, 2025Tap to summarizeAnother Weird Wednesday episode. Today we are reanimating life as scientists successfully revive brain tissue, and a 46,000-year-old worm comes back to the world of the living. Plus, we learn what mummies smelled like. On This Day in History, the Catholic Church bans Galileo from teaching his theory that the Earth rotates around the sun.Scientists Successfully Revived Brain Tissue from Suspended Animation | Popular MechanicsMouse Brain Slices Were Frozen For A Week, Brought Back To Life | BroBibleFrozen worm comes back to life after 46,000 years - Earth.comA worm has been revived after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost | CNNA novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva | PLOS GeneticsAncient Egyptian mummies smell 'sweet' and 'spicy', researchers say | Offbeat News | Sky NewsWhat Does a Mummy Smell Like? Scientists Uncover Surprising Truth | SciTechDailyThe truth about Galileo and his conflict with the Catholic Church | UCLAContact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →New Desalination Method Could Provide Water for Billions, Possible Wolf Pollinators, and TDIH - the Kecksburg UFO incident
Dec 9, 2024Tap to summarizeResearchers have developed a cost-effective solar-powered desalination method using clay minerals to enhance seawater evaporation, potentially providing clean water for billions worldwide and endangered wolves in Ethiopia may also be pollinators for one specific plant. Plus, on This Day in History, we look back at the Kecksburg UFO incident.Billions of People Could Benefit from This Breakthrough in Desalination That Ensures Freshwater for the WorldA wolf walks into a flower — and appears to pollinate it : NPRThese Endangered Wolves Have a Sweet Tooth—and It Might Make Them Rare Carnivorous Pollinators | SmithsonianWolves may be pollinators as well as predators, study suggests | CNNCanids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves may contribute to the pollination of Kniphofia foliosa - Lai - 2024 - Ecology - Wiley Online LibraryThe Kecksburg UFO incident | HistoryIs case finally closed on 1965 UFO mystery? | NBC NewsKecksburg UFO Mystery: 8 Mind-Blowing Documentaries on Pennsylvania's RoswellKecksburg, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1965 | Enigma LabsSponsored by Factor - use promo code coolstuff50 to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping Factormeals.com/50coolstuff Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mon. 08/09 - That “Code Red” Climate Report, Explained
Aug 9, 2021Tap to summarizeSome context and takeaways from the big UN climate report released this morning. NASA has opened applications for their Mars simulation mission. And why are some people in Japan sending bags of rice with their baby’s face on them to relatives? Links: The 2021 UN climate change report, explained: IPCC says humans caused “unequivocal” warming (Vox) New IPCC climate report is the clearest guidebook for selecting a future (Ars Technica) Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' (BBC) Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying (IPCC) The era of 'rapid' climate change has begun (The Phoenix) 1.5 degrees Celsius: the sad truth about our boldest climate change target (Vox) Want to pretend to live on Mars? For a whole year? Apply now (AP) NASA looking for people to spend a year pretending they live on Mars so it can prepare to send astronauts to red planet (Sky News) Rice, rice baby: Japanese parents send relatives rice to hug in lieu of newborns (The Guardian) Behold this creepy and adorable 1911 book of captioned cat photos. (Literary Hub) 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
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