Parrots Like To Do Video Calls With Other Parrots

This is one of the great technological and social breakthroughs of our time: scientists have figured out how parrots can do video calls with each other, and they love it!

By |2024-12-07T20:49:49-05:00May 12, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

New Zealand’s Parliament Has A “Biscuit Tin of Democracy”

Today in 1854, the first sitting of the parliament of New Zealand. And there’s an interesting story about that lawmaking body that involves a very special biscuit tin.

By |2024-12-02T11:01:18-05:00May 24, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

When In Rome, Recycle Like The Ancient Romans Did

The city of Pompeii was buried by Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago. And yet something there may sound very familiar to us today: the community had a pretty elaborate recycling system.

By |2024-12-16T10:47:52-05:00May 6, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |
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