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  • Side Effect of Intermittent Fasting, "Corn Sweat" Causing Humidity Levels to Rise, and TDIH - The Longest Overwater Bridge in the US

    Side Effect of Intermittent Fasting, "Corn Sweat" Causing Humidity Levels to Rise, and TDIH - The Longest Overwater Bridge in the US
    Aug 30 2024
    Too much of a good thing - Does the popular trend of intermittent fasting have a downside? Plus, are you feeling the corn sweat? We’ll explain. And on This Day in History, the longest overwater bridge opens. 'Too much of a good thing': Here’s what fasting could actually do to your body | BBC Science Focus Magazine Sweaty corn is making it even more humid | AP News Feeling Sticky This Summer? 'Corn Sweat' Could Be Raising the Humidity | Smithsonian (smithsonianmag.com) What is corn sweat? A Midwest heat wave is causing humidity to skyrocket. | Vox Driving the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway: The Longest Overwater Bridge in the World - UponArriving Tammany Family: Mandeville History: A Resort Dreamed Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Opens (nationalgeographic.org) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 m
  • Matching Dinosaur Footprints on Different Continents, The First Human-Caused Asteroid Shower, and TDIH - The Zeppelin Around-The-World Trip

    Matching Dinosaur Footprints on Different Continents, The First Human-Caused Asteroid Shower, and TDIH - The Zeppelin Around-The-World Trip
    Aug 29 2024
    Matching dinosaur footprints on two different continents and for the first time ever, a human-caused asteroid shower is coming to Earth. Plus, on This Day in History, a Zeppelin airship completes its round-the-world trip. Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean | ScienceDaily NASA's dart mission may spark human-caused meteor showers (msn.com) Fallout from NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission could hit Earth — potentially triggering 1st human-caused meteor shower | Live Science NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space - NASA Ninety years since the first round-the-world airship flight | World Air Sports Federation (fai.org) Passengers and Crew of Graf Zeppelin's Round the World Flight of 1929 | Airships.net Graf Zeppelin’s Historic 1929 Flight Around the World (youtube.com) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 m
  • Tarantula Mating Season, Weird Wednesday Has the Oldest Bottle of Cognac, the Oldest Living Man, The Not Missing Kid, and a Nude Bike Race, Plus TDIH - the Race with the First American Steam Locomotive

    Tarantula Mating Season, Weird Wednesday Has the Oldest Bottle of Cognac, the Oldest Living Man, The Not Missing Kid, and a Nude Bike Race, Plus TDIH - the Race with the First American Steam Locomotive
    Aug 28 2024
    Don’t panic, but thousands of tarantulas will soon emerge in search of a mate – at least, in select parts of the country (we’ll tell you where). Plus, it’s Weird Wednesday and we’re bringing you the oldest bottle of cognac, the oldest living man, a missing kid that wasn’t really missing, and a nude bike race. And on This Day in History – the first American steam locomotive is built, and the race that secures its place in the future of transportation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 m
  • A New Prospective Solution for Keeping Alzheimer's and Other Brain Conditions at Bay, An Endangered Bird Will Soon Fly Again (w/ Help from Humans) & TDIH; the First Known Play in America Leads to a Criminal Trial

    A New Prospective Solution for Keeping Alzheimer's and Other Brain Conditions at Bay, An Endangered Bird Will Soon Fly Again (w/ Help from Humans) & TDIH; the First Known Play in America Leads to a Criminal Trial
    Aug 27 2024
    A new prospective solution for keeping Alzheimer's and other age-related brain conditions at bay. Plus, an endangered bird will soon take flight again, with the help of humans. And on 'This Day in History', the first known play in America leads to a criminal trial. Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain's trash disposal system This bird species was extinct in Europe. Now it's back, and humans must help it migrate for winter | AP News LIFE Northern Bald Ibis The First American Play: Ye Bare and Ye Cubbe, Insights into Colonial Culture and Individual Rights - History Arch Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    24 m
  • The Power of the Placebo -Results from a New Study, Tela Bay Coral Reef and What Can Be Learned There, and TDIH - The Morris Mini-Minor Released

    The Power of the Placebo -Results from a New Study, Tela Bay Coral Reef and What Can Be Learned There, and TDIH - The Morris Mini-Minor Released
    Aug 26 2024
    The power of the placebo – a new study reveals interesting benefits even when patients are aware of what they’re receiving, and the coral reefs are slowly dying – but not in Tela Bay. What secrets might this area possess, and can they be applied to other reefs around the world? Plus, on This Day in History, one tiny car becomes a cultural icon. Placebos reduce stress, anxiety, depression -- even when people know they are placebos | ScienceDaily This coral reef should be dead—so why is it thriving? (nationalgeographic.com) First-Ever Coral Crossbreeding Hopes to Mimic the Resilience of an 'Invincible' Reef in Honduras (goodnewsnetwork.org) The Original Mini: A Look Back At The Morris Mini Minor (hotcars.com) 1959 Morris Mini-Minor road test - Throwback Thursday | Autocar How many Minis were built? (aronline.co.uk) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 m
  • A New Computer Interface Gives Those Suffering from ALS Their Voice Back. A New Lunar Timezone, a Runaway Star, and on TDIH; William Beebe Descends Into The Ocean Depths in his Bathysphere

    A New Computer Interface Gives Those Suffering from ALS Their Voice Back. A New Lunar Timezone, a Runaway Star, and on TDIH; William Beebe Descends Into The Ocean Depths in his Bathysphere
    Aug 16 2024
    REMINDER: Reggie and Marques will be off August 19-23, attending a podcast conference. They'll be back with episodes beginning Monday, August 26. A new computer interface could give those suffering from ALS their voice back. Plus, scientists look to implement a universal lunar clock to keep tabs on time on the moon. A runaway star that’s faster than anything we've ever heard of. And on TDIH; William Beebe descends into the ocean depths in his bathysphere. New brain-computer interface allows man with ALS to 'speak' again International astronomy group joins calls for a lunar clock to keep time on the moon 'Failed star' brown dwarf runaway races through the cosmos at 1 million mph August 15, 1934: World-Record Dive in the Bathysphere by Barton and Beebe The first Bathysphere and the work of William Beebe William Beebe: Britannica VIDEO: Sketches from the Deep Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 m
  • Possible Underground Oceans on Mars, NASA's VIPER Rover's Second Chance, and TDIH - The American Tourist Who Kissed Hitler

    Possible Underground Oceans on Mars, NASA's VIPER Rover's Second Chance, and TDIH - The American Tourist Who Kissed Hitler
    Aug 15 2024
    Water … in space! Exciting news from a celestial body and where it could be hiding, and NASA’s VIPER rover may have a second chance. Plus, On This Day in History; the American tourist who kissed Adolph Hitler. Scientists Just Found Oceans of Liquid Water on Mars – But There's a Catch : ScienceAlert Mars Once Had So Much Water, It Could Have Been An Ocean World, Scientists Say : ScienceAlert Mars Education | Developing the Next Generation of Explorers (asu.edu) Liquid water in the Martian mid-crust | PNAS NASA’s Abandoned Moon Bot Might Get a Rescue Mission From a Lunar Startup (gizmodo.com) NASA Ends VIPER Project, Continues Moon Exploration - NASA Intuitive Machines seeks to take over NASA’s VIPER lunar rover - SpaceNews The Woman Who Kissed Hitler - J. Mark Powell (jmarkpowell.com) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 m
  • Weird Wednesday - Shipwrecked Champaign, Baby Orange Lobsters, Great Lakes Alligator, Guinness World Record Record, and TDIH - First Actual Flight?

    Weird Wednesday - Shipwrecked Champaign, Baby Orange Lobsters, Great Lakes Alligator, Guinness World Record Record, and TDIH - First Actual Flight?
    Aug 14 2024
    It’s Weird Wednesday and we’re bringing you shipwrecked champagne, rare baby lobsters, a Great Lakes alligator, and a Guinness World Record record –. And on This Day in History – were the Wright Brothers really the first in flight? Some would beg to differ, and we’ll tell you why. A 19th-century shipwreck is filled with Champagne bottles and Sweden won't allow anyone a sip | AP News A 1-in-30-million orange lobster in Maine is having colorful babies (msn.com) Maine university's rare orange lobster hatches babies (wisn.com) Sighting of alligator swimming off shore of Lake Erie prompts Pennsylvania search | AP News Watch: David Rush breaks 15 Guinness World Records in one day - UPI.com Gustave-Whitehead.com, Gustav Weißkopf, © John Brown Gustave Whitehead - Wikipedia Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 m