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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: The Dunce Cap Was Once A Hat Worn By Great Scholars
Description: School is back in session, and fortunately teachers aren't using dunce caps to shame their students. How did a hat that was once worn by prominent thinkers end up as the hat of choice for teachers trying to brand students as dopes? Plus: an apartment building in Concord, New Hampshire turns itself into a classic video game.
What’s the origin of the dunce cap? (The Straight Dope)
NH gets a cool new monument to video games (GraniteGeek)
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