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  • Converting Aircraft Wind into Energy, Fossilized Bee Puzzles Scientists, and TDIH: Nylon Invented

    Converting Aircraft Wind into Energy, Fossilized Bee Puzzles Scientists, and TDIH: Nylon Invented
    Feb 28 2025
    Today’s episode brings us the converting of aircraft wind (from jet engines) into energy, the fossilized bee that is puzzling scientists, and on This Day in History; the invention of Nylon. US airport installs world’s first pods that turn jet blast into power | Interesting Engineering Incredible 14.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil Bee Discovered In New Zealand | IFLScience Scientists Just Unearthed a 14.6-Million-Year-Old "Bee Fossil"—Its Origins Don’t Make Sense | Daily Galaxy A bee from the middle Miocene Hindon Maar of southern New Zealand (Hymenoptera, Colletidae) - Scientific Publications of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris Nylon and the Double Helix Wallace Hume Carrothers Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    18 min
  • How To Get a Good Night's Sleep, Famous Ocean Liner to Become a Reef, and TDIH - The Start of Mardi Gras

    How To Get a Good Night's Sleep, Famous Ocean Liner to Become a Reef, and TDIH - The Start of Mardi Gras
    Feb 27 2025
    How to get a good night’s sleep - anxiety and when you go to sleep can affect your slumber. Plus, a famous ocean liner will soon be a reef and tourist attraction off the coast of Florida. On This Day in History, we go back to the start of Mardi Gras. Always tired? A fixed bedtime matters more than sleep duration, study finds | Science Focus Anxiety stopping you sleeping? Here’s how to overcome bedtime worries, according to a psychologist | Science Focus SS United States begins journey to become world's largest artificial reef | AP News SS United States Florida destiny: World's largest artificial reef | Pensacola News Journal Mardi Gras ‑ Meaning, Origin & Traditions | HISTORY Mardi Gras Kicks Off in New Orleans on This Day in 1827 - Programming Insider On this day in history, Feb. 27, 1827, New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras for first time | National | foxbangor.com Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 min
  • Reanimating Brain Tissue from Cryogenic Preservation, 46,000-Year-Old Worm Revived, Mummy Smells, and TDIH - Galileo Banned from Teaching

    Reanimating Brain Tissue from Cryogenic Preservation, 46,000-Year-Old Worm Revived, Mummy Smells, and TDIH - Galileo Banned from Teaching
    Feb 26 2025
    Another 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 Mechanics Mouse Brain Slices Were Frozen For A Week, Brought Back To Life | BroBible Frozen worm comes back to life after 46,000 years - Earth.com A worm has been revived after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost | CNN A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva | PLOS Genetics Ancient Egyptian mummies smell 'sweet' and 'spicy', researchers say | Offbeat News | Sky News What Does a Mummy Smell Like? Scientists Uncover Surprising Truth | SciTechDaily The truth about Galileo and his conflict with the Catholic Church | UCLA Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 min
  • Removing CO2 From the Atmosphere, Hydrogen Reservoirs in Our Mountains, and TDIH - The First Paper Currency in the U.S.

    Removing CO2 From the Atmosphere, Hydrogen Reservoirs in Our Mountains, and TDIH - The First Paper Currency in the U.S.
    Feb 25 2025
    Stanford chemist develops a method to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and vast hydrogen reservoirs likely reside in our mountains -- a renewable energy source that is difficult to produce synthetically. Plus, on This Day in History, Congress authorizes the first paper currency in the US. Scientists discover low-cost way to trap carbon using common rocks | Stanford Report Massive new energy source could be hiding in Earth’s mountains | BBC Science Focus Magazine Legal Tender Act passed to help finance the Civil War | February 25, 1862 | HISTORY Legal Tender Act passed, Feb. 25, 1862 - POLITICO Greenbacks "First Legal Tender Act" February 25, 1862 Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 min
  • Hydrogen Powered Motorcycle Prototype, Amateur Photographer Captures a Spacewalk, and TDIH - Ruling Allows Federal Courts to Overturn Congress If the Constitution is Violated

    Hydrogen Powered Motorcycle Prototype, Amateur Photographer Captures a Spacewalk, and TDIH - Ruling Allows Federal Courts to Overturn Congress If the Constitution is Violated
    Feb 24 2025
    One Japanese motor company unveiled a hydrogen powered motorcycle and an amateur photographer captures a spacewalk. This Day in History; the Supreme Court decision that allows a federal court to overturn an act of Congress, if they violate the U.S. Constitution. Kawasaki H2 HySE hydrogen powered concept unveiled | Motorcycle News Goodbye to gasoline and electricity: Japan revolutionizes the world with its new futuristic motorcycle - AS USA Not gasoline, not electricity — Japan launches a 22-century motorcycle | EcoNews An Amateur Photographer Captured a Rare Shot of a NASA Astronaut Spacewalking from Earth |ZME Science Earth safe from 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 'That's impact probability zero folks! | Space.com/MSN Marbury v. Madison ‑ Definition, Summary & Significance | HISTORY Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 min
  • Foreign Rocks Infiltrate Our Solar System, Turning Cancer Cells into Healthy Cells, and TDIH - The First Electric Burglar Alarm

    Foreign Rocks Infiltrate Our Solar System, Turning Cancer Cells into Healthy Cells, and TDIH - The First Electric Burglar Alarm
    Feb 21 2025
    On today's episode, our solar system is being invaded by particles from another star system and combating cancer by switching tumor cells back into healthy cells. Plus, on This Day in History, the first electric burglar alarm is installed. Scientists Think Visitors From Another Star System May Have Infiltrated Our Galactic Neighborhood | Popular Mechanics 'Cosmic Highway' Discovered: How Alpha Centauri’s Debris May Link Our Solar System to Faraway Stars | Daily Galaxy [2502.03224] A Case Study of Interstellar Material Delivery: α Centauri Fighting Cancer Without Fighting: Scientists Switch Tumor Cells Back to Healthy Ones at 'Critical' Moment | Good News Network ​Almanac: The burglar alarm - CBS News Our Father's Beginning | Wayback Machine Who Was Augustus Russell Pope | Wayback Machine Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    20 min
  • How Bacteria Could Help Solve Crimes, Boosting Beneficial Gut Bacteria with Coffee, and TDIH - The Underground Chicago Fright Tunnels

    How Bacteria Could Help Solve Crimes, Boosting Beneficial Gut Bacteria with Coffee, and TDIH - The Underground Chicago Fright Tunnels
    Feb 20 2025
    Today, bacteria are in the limelight as we discover how bacteria could help solve crimes and how coffee can help boost beneficial gut bacteria. On This Day in History, we go underground for the construction of the Chicago freight tunnels. Can Bacteria Solve Crimes? The "Sexome" Could Help Catch Sexual Predators | ZME Science Coffee Boosts Beneficial Gut Bacterium | Scientific American Chicago's Freight Tunnels - Under Your Feet - The University of Chicago Library Chicago's Forgotten Underground Freight Tunnels - Chicago Detours Chicago Freight Tunnels - Atlas Obscura Frederic Delaitre's Lost Subways / Chicago Freight Subway Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    19 min
  • Feather-Shaped Clouds on Mars, Swallowed by a Whale, Sewer Animals, and TDIH - The Bombing of Darwin

    Feather-Shaped Clouds on Mars, Swallowed by a Whale, Sewer Animals, and TDIH - The Bombing of Darwin
    Feb 19 2025
    This Weird Wednesday episode covers the colorful feather shaped clouds are spotted on Mars, a kayaker that was swallowed by a whale, and alligators (along with other animals) that are being found in the sewers. Plus, on This Day in History, the WWII bombing of Darwin Australia. NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Colorful Clouds Drifting Over Mars - NASA 'Iridescent' clouds on Mars captured in Martian twilight in stunning NASA rover images (video) | Space NASA's Curiosity Captures Stunning Feather-Shaped Clouds on Mars - Science Magazine Humpback whale swallows kayaker before releasing him: Video | AP News Kayaker survives being swallowed by humpback whale in Chile | World News | Sky News Watch: Kayaker ends up in the mouth of humpback whale - UPI.com Scientists ‘surprised’ to find abundance of alligators in city’s sewer system | The Independent The Bombing of Darwin Remembered | Naval History Magazine - April 2022 Volume 36, Number 2 Bombing of Darwin | Australian War Memorial Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 min