When Martin Luther King Jr. Won The Nobel Peace Prize, Atlanta Held A Historic Dinner In His Honor

Dr. King's home city gave him a warm welcome after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, though putting that warm welcome together got complicated. 

Winning The Nobel Prize Is Hard, Calling Someone To Tell Them They Won The Nobel Prize Can Also Be Hard

Today in 2020, the Nobel Foundation tried to call a Stanford professor to tell him he'd won the Economics Prize... except that he was asleep with his phone in Sleep Mode! Fortunately they found a good workaround.

By |2024-12-08T15:17:15-05:00October 12, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

This Wearable Exosuit Brings Us A Little Closer To Being Iron Man

Millions of people have back pain that just plain makes things harder to do. A team at Vanderbilt University has developed an exosuit that may ease all that back strain.

By |2024-12-14T10:47:23-05:00October 14, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |
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