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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Potatoes Could Help Astronauts Build “Cosmic Concrete” On Mars, Or Even Here On Earth
Description: A team at the University of Manchester has developed a kind of “cosmic concrete” for building structures on Mars - and the key ingredient comes from potatoes. Plus: today in 1991, the Wall Street Journal reported on an unusual training session for the Seattle Police Department.
Scientists develop a ‘cosmic concrete’ that is twice as strong as regular concrete (University of Manchester)
Seattle Police Head Back to Class For a Course in Chair-Sitting 101 (Wall Street Journal)
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