29 06, 2023

Marie C. Bolden, A Black Teen In Cleveland, Helped Win A National Spelling Title In 1908 (Cool Weird Awesome 1037)

By |2024-06-29T08:24:16-04:00June 29, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Today in 1908, a team of students from Cleveland won a spelling title at the annual meeting of the National Education Association, thanks in part to a Black 14 year old named Marie C. Bolden.

29 06, 2022

Bats Can Remember Our Ringtones (Cool Weird Awesome 799)

By |2024-06-29T08:24:51-04:00June 29, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

A study from Ohio State University finds bats can remember a ringtone if they associate the sound with food - for years, in some cases.

29 06, 2021

Before There Was CGI, There Was Special Effects Master Ray Harryhausen (Cool Weird Awesome 562)

By |2024-06-29T08:26:01-04:00June 29, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Ray Harryhausen was a pioneer of special effects in movies in the days before computers, whose influence is still all over the world of movies today.

29 06, 2020

The San Diego Chicken Almost Moved To Atlanta (Cool Weird Awesome 330)

By |2024-06-29T08:30:47-04:00June 29, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Back in 1978 the San Diego Chicken was winning huge numbers of fans - which is why Atlanta owner Ted Turner tried to coax the man inside the chicken suit, Ted Giannoulas, to move east.

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