Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
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A Couple In Texas Made A Replica Of The Munsters’ TV House
3 mins; October 31, 2022
Why Audiences Throw Things At The Stage, Though Obviously They Shouldn’t
3 mins; October 28, 2022
Farming Robots Are Weeding The Fields With Lasers
3 mins; October 27, 2022
The New York Mets Once Made A Mule Their Mascot
3 mins; October 26, 2022
Florence Foster Jenkins Stunned Carnegie Hall With Her Singing
3 mins; October 25, 2022
The United Nations Is Home To The World’s Countries, And Bees
3 mins; October 24, 2022
Who Was Granny Smith And How Did She Get An Apple Named After Her?
3 mins; October 21, 2022
Googly Eyes On Self-Driving Cars Could Help Keep Pedestrians Safe
3 mins; October 20, 2022
Need To Build A House Quick? Try Inflatable Walls That Get Filled With Concrete
3 mins; October 19, 2022
There’s A Bulldozer Under The University Of Illinois’ Stadium - Or Is There?
3 mins; October 18, 2022
The Inventor Of Fettuccine Alfredo Was - No Surprise - A Guy Named Alfredo
3 mins; October 17, 2022
A Quick Look At Superfast Bullet Trains
3 mins; October 14, 2022
A New Brace Can Treat Scoliosis Without Cramping The Wearer’s Style
3 mins; October 13, 2022
Teams Of High-Tech Drones Can 3D Print In The Air
3 mins; October 12, 2022
Each Year, London Pays Rent To The Crown For Land That’s… Somewhere
3 mins; October 11, 2022
The Talking Stamps Of Bhutan
3 mins; October 10, 2022
A College Football Game Ended With A Score Of 222-0
3 mins; October 07, 2022
For Decades, The Chicago Cubs Missed The World Series, And Fans Blamed It On The Curse Of The Billy Goat
3 mins; October 06, 2022
Hisako Koyama Tracked Sunspots For Almost Half A Century
3 mins; October 05, 2022
Margaret Abbott Won Olympic Gold Even Though She Didn’t Know She Was In The Olympics
3 mins; October 04, 2022
The U.S. Had An Aunt Sammy As Well As An Uncle Sam
3 mins; October 03, 2022
Abel Gonzales Is The Fried Food King Of The Texas State Fair
3 mins; September 30, 2022
The Original Declaration Of Independence Had A Rough Century Or So
3 mins; September 29, 2022
Mike Yurosek, The Founding Father Of Baby Carrots
3 mins; September 28, 2022
The Dunce Cap Was Once A Hat Worn By Great Scholars
3 mins; September 27, 2022
Cop Rock, The Show Where Police Sang As They Solved Crimes
3 mins; September 26, 2022
There’s A House In The Middle Of France’s Loire River
3 mins; September 23, 2022
With Solar-Reflective Paint, School Playgrounds Are Getting Cooler
3 mins; September 22, 2022
It’s September 21st, So Of Course We're Doing A Show About Earth, Wind & Fire's "September"
3 mins; September 21, 2022
The “Lunch Atop A Skyscraper” Photo Was Originally A Publicity Stunt
3 mins; September 20, 2022
The Play Where All The Actors Were Dogs
3 mins; September 19, 2022
Under The Sea Week: How Space Might Save The Whales
3 mins; September 16, 2022
Under The Sea Week: Ship To Shark Communication
3 mins; September 15, 2022
Under The Sea Week: The CIA Once Created Robot Fish
3 mins; September 14, 2022
Under The Sea Week: Pilot Whales Trick Their Predators By Mimicking Their Voices
3 mins; September 13, 2022
Under The Sea Week: The Greenland Shark Can Live For Hundreds Of Years, So Don’t Make It Mad
3 mins; September 12, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II Had A Bunch Of Birthdays
3 mins; September 09, 2022
Harrison Dyar, Who Made Digging Tunnels In Washington, DC His Hobby
3 mins; September 08, 2022
A 10 Month Old Kitten Once Climbed The Matterhorn… Somehow
3 mins; September 07, 2022
Meet Some Of The Oldest Books Ever Found
3 mins; September 06, 2022
How Sunken Ships Wound Up In Farm Fields
3 mins; September 05, 2022
The Carrington Event, A Huge Magnetic Storm That Let Telegraph Operators Send Messages Through The Air
3 mins; September 02, 2022
Room 8, The Cat Named For A Classroom In L.A.
3 mins; September 01, 2022
High-Tech Clothes Could Also Be A Battery That We Can Power
3 mins; August 31, 2022
Linda Christensen, The Minnesota State Fair’s Legendary Butter Sculptor
3 mins; August 30, 2022
The Robot That Could Do Surgeries In Space
3 mins; August 29, 2022
Bobbie The Wonder Dog Walked From Indiana To Oregon
3 mins; August 26, 2022
Pat Martino Became A Jazz Guitar Great - Twice
3 mins; August 25, 2022
Pitcher Ray Caldwell Was Struck By Lightning During A Game But Won Anyway
3 mins; August 24, 2022
How To Make 2,000 Year Old Seeds Sprout
3 mins; August 23, 2022
Dorothy Parker Could’ve Come Up With A More Clever Title For This Episode Than We Did
3 mins; August 22, 2022
A College Student In The 1890s Became The Candid Camera Of Norway
3 mins; August 19, 2022
Stingrays Make Noise, And Now We Know What It Sounds Like
3 mins; August 18, 2022
Could We Replace Concrete Walls With Ones Made Of 3D-Printed Soil?
3 mins; August 17, 2022
How Two Deaf Mountaineers Plan To Climb The Seven Summits
3 mins; August 16, 2022
The Pet Rock Started As A Dad Joke And Ended Up As A Million Dollar Idea
3 mins; August 15, 2022
George Jetson Has Just Been Born, According To The Internet
3 mins; August 12, 2022
We Could Soon Do Ultrasounds Through A Wearable Patch
3 mins; August 11, 2022
There Was A Movement To Make Sicily Part Of The US
3 mins; August 10, 2022
That Time Some Dude Drove A Van Dressed As A Car Seat
3 mins; August 09, 2022
Why So Many Old Paintings Have Dogs Holding Lit Flares In Their Mouths
3 mins; August 08, 2022
Coffee Week: It’s All Pumpkin Spice From Here On Out
3 mins; August 05, 2022
Coffee Week: Meet The New, Foldable Coffee Cup
3 mins; August 04, 2022
Coffee Week: Drinking Coffee Out Of Coffee Cups Made From Coffee
3 mins; August 03, 2022
Coffee Week: Robots Can Walk Better, Thanks To Coffee
3 mins; August 02, 2022
Coffee Week: The Olympic Team That Paid Its Way By Selling Coffee
4 mins; August 01, 2022
Coffee Milk Is The Official State Drink Of Rhode Island
3 mins; July 29, 2022
There’s A Plastic-Free Food Wrap You Kind Of Spray On
3 mins; July 28, 2022
A Mirror From The 16th Century Just Revealed Its Secret
3 mins; July 27, 2022
Brushing Our Teeth With Help From Nanorobots
3 mins; July 26, 2022
Tenino, Washington, The Town That Makes Its Own Money Out Of Wood
3 mins; July 25, 2022
The Price Is Right Contestant Who Couldn’t Lose At Plinko
3 mins; July 22, 2022
Omar Kneidlik And The ICEE Made Summer A Lot Cooler
3 mins; July 21, 2022
Bishops Used To Be Elephants, And Other Wild Stories About How Chess Pieces Got Their Names
3 mins; July 20, 2022
The Time Pittsburgh Lost Its H - And Then Got It Back
3 mins; July 19, 2022
Gino Bartali Was A Champion And A Hero On A Bike
3 mins; July 18, 2022
If Humans Land On Mars, Telling Time Will Get A Lot More Complicated
3 mins; July 15, 2022
Here’s What 3,000 Year Old Pants Are Like
3 mins; July 14, 2022
During World War I, Photographers Made A “Human Statue of Liberty” Out Of 18,000 Soldiers
3 mins; July 13, 2022
Latvia Has Blue Cows And A Play Helped Save Them
3 mins; July 12, 2022
At Age 11, Venetia Burney Named Pluto
3 mins; July 11, 2022
Bessie Stringfield Became Miami’s “Motorcycle Queen”
3 mins; July 08, 2022
John Harrison Lived The Dream As A World-Class Ice Cream Taste Tester
3 mins; July 07, 2022
How Did US Dollars Get Their Name?
3 mins; July 06, 2022
A Chess “Robot” Beat Grand Masters In The 18th Century - Sort Of
3 mins; July 05, 2022
The U.S. Once Got A Fourth Of July Card From Over 5 Million Polish People
3 mins; July 04, 2022
Wat Misaka Was A Pro Basketball Pioneer (And A Pretty Impressive Bowler, Too)
3 mins; July 01, 2022
Billy Mills Pulled Off One Of The Greatest Upsets In Olympic History
3 mins; June 30, 2022
Bats Can Remember Our Ringtones
3 mins; June 29, 2022
New York City Used To Deliver Mail Through Pneumatic Tubes
3 mins; June 28, 2022
Helen Keller Once Flew A Plane, No Matter What People On The Internet Think
3 mins; June 27, 2022
Jim Gernhart Rehearsed His Own Funeral For 25 Years
3 mins; June 24, 2022
A Typewriter Inventor Was Trying To Help A Blind Friend Send Letters
3 mins; June 23, 2022
A Rare Blood Condition Led To The “Blue People Of Kentucky”
3 mins; June 22, 2022
The Yakhchāl Was A Refrigerator Thousands Of Years Before Refrigerators Were Invented
3 mins; June 21, 2022
Instead Of West Virginia, The US Could Have Had The State Of Westsylvania
3 mins; June 20, 2022
Unusual Music Week: Now That’s A Deep Cut: Music Scholars Bring Back “Lost” Songs From 1,000 Years Ago
3 mins; June 17, 2022
Unusual Music Week: Meet The Fake Beatles
3 mins; June 16, 2022
Unusual Music Week: A Song That Takes 639 Years To Play Just Had A Chord Change
3 mins; June 15, 2022
Unusual Music Week: The Oomphalapompatronium Is An Instrument That Lives Up To Its Unusual Name
3 mins; June 14, 2022