For Over A Century, Kids Have Been Writing Amazing And Sometimes Bewildering Letters To Santa

Kids in the US have been writing letters to Santa for well over a century. Those letters are a fascinating, hilarious and sometimes jaw-dropping window into our own history.

By |2024-12-10T06:48:05-05:00December 10, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

These Smart Glasses Can Generate Real-Time Speech Captions For Deaf People

TranscribeGlass is a new set of glasses powered by artificial intelligence that can transcribe speech in real time and create captions for people who need them.

This Worm-Shaped Pipe-Clearing Robot Could Be The Fatberg Fighter We Need

There really is a robot now called the Pipe-Worm. It's built to unclog pipes, and it does it by mimicking earthworms.

By |2024-12-10T08:37:44-05:00March 22, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

Mollusk Shells Inspire An “Unbreakable” Glass

Glass is versatile stuff, but fragile. A new project out of McGill University is modeled after the material in mollusk shells and could make glass a lot more durable.

By |2024-12-14T10:18:06-05:00October 8, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |
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