Sometimes Towns Just Have To Build Statues To Invasive Pests (Cool Weird Awesome 190)

Today marks one hundred years since the community of Enterprise, Alabama, put up a very special monument in the middle of town: a statue of a Greek woman holding a boll weevil, an invasive pest that had ruined the local cotton crop. Wait, what? Plus: meet the most destructive holiday force ever, Treezilla!

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The Best Defense Against Cougars Is Metallica (Cool Weird Awesome 103)

When a cougar started walking toward her on a logging trail in British Columbia, Dee Gallant used the power of rock to protect herself.

By |2024-08-12T08:10:12-04:00August 12, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |
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