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Kottke Ride Home

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Tracks

11/18 - Real Talk on Thanksgiving Celebrations in 2020
(Bonus) A Conversation with Jason Kottke
Feed Drop - Jacked: Rise of the New Jack
Fri. 02/05 - This Is Your Brain On Juggling
Fri. 04/02 - When the Suez Canal Was Blocked for Eight YEARS & a Micronation Was Formed At Sea
Fri. 04/09 - The Sound of Our Future Depends On Electric Vehicles
Fri. 04/16 - Human-Monkey Chimera Embryos Are a Reality Now
Fri. 04/23 - A McShake Up: The Battle Over McDonald's Ice Cream Machines
Fri. 04/30 - Human Memes Are Taking Back What They’re Owed
Fri. 05/07 - No Shrooms on Mars, Just Misinformation
Fri. 05/21 - The Cicadas Are Turning Into Dismembered, Zombie Sex Fiends
Fri. 05/28 - Rural Oregon Tries to Become Greater Idaho
Fri. 06/18 - Are There Dinosaur Teeth on the Moon?
Fri. 07/24 - How AOL Inspired a Hamilton Song
Fri. 07/31 - What Toddlers’ Nonsensical Emojis Mean
Fri. 08/07 - Netflix's Rejected Goat Sound Logo & the Vegetable Orchestra
Fri. 08/14 - A New Ice Cream Truck Song & A New Dinosaur
Fri. 08/21 - Dinner Reservations That Require DNA Samples
Fri. 08/28 - The Border Town Currently Isolated From Both Canada & the US
Fri. 09/04 - Meditate With a Squid
Fri. 09/11 - Why Do Americans Love Rotisserie Chicken?
Fri. 09/18 - How Bras Inspired the N95
Fri. 09/25 - Making Millions on Face Masks
Fri. 10/02 - Witchy Ingredients Aren't What They Seem
Fri. 10/09 - What OS Do They Use In Space?
Fri. 10/16 - Will Plastic Bubbles Save Live Music? The Flaming Lips Think So.
Fri. 10/23 - The Bat Who Went To Space
Fri. 11/06 - The Most Extreme, Hellish Planet Yet Discovered
Fri. 11/13 - How Did Friday the 13th Become Unlucky?
Fri. 11/20 - Did Ben Franklin Want to Replace the Eagle With the Turkey as the National Bird?
Fri. 12/4 - When You Find Out You're a Meme
Fri. 1/29 - What Your Tone of Voice Could Say About Your Music Taste
Mon. 02/01 - February's Mars Invasion
Mon. 02/08 - A Live Animated Stage Production... Wait, what?
Mon. 04/05 - Vaccine Side Effects: Myths & Tips
Mon. 04/12 - Is An Art Movement Happening On TikTok?
Mon. 04/19 - Super League, Explained (w/ Brian McCullough)
Mon. 04/26 - The Battle of the Joshes
Mon. 05/03 - Can We Expand Human Life Spans?
Mon. 05/11 - And Now For Some Good News
Mon. 05/17 - The Historical Mix-Up That Led to COVID Aerosol Confusion
Mon. 05/24 - Big Wind Energy & Tech-Savvy Lessons from the Amish
Mon. 07/27 - The Year Without a Summer
Mon. 08/03 - 2019 Tax Refunds Signed By Walt Disney
Mon. 08/10 - Rent-A-Pineapple
Mon. 08/17 - Smog-Eating Murals & An Announcement
Mon. 08/24 - No Asteroid Apocalypse, But Maybe Aliens?
Mon. 08/31 - Monkey-Fighting Grannies with Airsoft Guns
Mon. 09/14 - Preventing "Mask Breath" & Worse
Mon. 09/21 - Get Vacation Stress-Relief Without the Vacation
Mon. 09/28 - Time Travel, Biomedical Tattoos, & Satanic Tea
Mon. 10/05 - Vending Machine Operators Are Trending
Mon. 10/12 - The Indigenous Practice of Controlled Burning to Prevent Wildfires
Mon. 10/19 - The Moon Is Getting a Nokia Cellular Network
Mon. 11/09 - What To Know About the Pfizer Vaccine
Mon. 11/16 - The Moderna Vaccine: What You Need To Know
Mon. 11/23 - Oxford's Vaccine & "Word" of the Year
Mon. 11/30 - The Utah Monolith Has VANISHED
Mon. 12/28 - What If 2020 Was Just One Big MMORPG?
Mon. 12/7 - What It's Like Finding Buried Treasure in 2020
Thu. 04/01 - Slamilton: A Basketball Musical
Thu. 04/08 - Who Invented the High Five?
Thu. 04/15 - What Do Spiderwebs Sound Like?
Thu. 04/22 - Your Grandma's Meme Stocks of the 1980s
Thu. 04/29 - An AI Won a Crossword Tournament & the Olympics Gets Into eSports
Thu. 05/20 - How The Sun Could Spoil NASA's Trip Back to the Moon
Thu. 05/27 - Naked Mole Rats: The Key to Slowing Human Aging?
Thu. 06/03 - Why Unique People Are More Attractive
Thu. 07/08 - Will We Still Own Things In the Future?
Thu. 07/15 - NASA, Don’t Flub on Hubble Trouble
Thu. 07/30 - Plutonium: American Made, Martian Approved
Thu. 08/13 - The Australian Wastewater Treatment Plant Powered By Leftover Beer
Thu. 08/20 - Zines & Floppy Disks: Making a 2020 Comeback?
Thu. 08/27 - Why Pumpkin Spice Will Never Die
Thu. 09/03 - The Schwarzenegger School of Social Media Etiquette
Thu. 09/10 - How Where You Live Determines Your Personality
Thu. 09/17 - Practice Friluftsliv This Winter
Thu. 09/24 - The Secret Mancave Beneath Grand Central Terminal
Thu. 10/08 – 1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Wrote About Evolution
Thu. 10/15 – 50/50 Odds We Live In a Simulation, New Study Finds
Thu. 11/05 - Why Nebraska Splits Its Electoral Votes
Thu. 11/12 - How Many Holes Does a Straw Have?
Thu. 11/19 - Paleomixology & the Baskin-Robbins Turkey Cake: Tips For Spending the Holidays Alone
Thu. 12/10 - Deepfake Santa & The Great Conjunction
Thu. 12/3 - Proximity Chats: A Solution to Bad Zoom Parties?
Thu. 1/28 - Legal Protections for Sounds & Smells in France
Tue. 02/02 - How Frozen Helped Solve the Dyatlov Pass Mystery
Tue. 02/09 - A Hacker Tried to Poison a Town's Water Supply
Tue. 03/30 - Zombie Brain Cells Keep Going After We Die
Tue. 04/06 - A New Bacteria Discovered on the ISS That Could Help Grow Plants on Mars
Tue. 04/13 - A Methane-Eating Bacteria Inside of Trees
Tue. 04/20 - The New Roaring 20s? An Economist & Epidemiologist Weigh In
Tue. 04/27 - This Famous Actor's Mom Helped Save the Apollo 13 Astronauts
Tue. 05/04 - The Closest to a Real Lightsaber We'll Probably Get
Tue. 05/12 - Why You Still Can't Find Clorox Wipes
Tue. 05/18 - Why Mammals Don't Have Neon or Iridescent Skin Like Other Animals
Tue. 05/25 - Do Ovens Dream of Frozen Pizza?
Tue. 06/01 - Bacteria Saves Michelangelo Works From Medici Ooze
Tue. 07/06 - Is the 4-Day Workweek Actually Happening This Time?
Tue. 07/28 - Your Lost Laundry May End Up On Instagram
Tue. 08/04 - The Anti-Mask League… of 1918
Tue. 08/18 - The Lost Colony Was Never Lost
Tue. 08/25 - New Game Let's You Relive the Boredom of a Long Flight
Tue. 09/01 - Bee Venom Cancer Treatment & Diamond-Powered Batteries
Tue. 09/08 - Long Live the (Cloned) Woolly Mammoth
Tue. 09/15 - Life on Venus & Responsible Shrek Fans
Tue. 09/22 - Horror Fans Fare Better During the Pandemic
Tue. 09/29 - The Dark Origins of Nike's "Just Do It" Slogan
Tue. 10/06 - Asbestos: The Secret Weapon Against Climate Change?
Tue. 10/13 - A Star Spaghettified By a Black Hole (Yes, that's the technical term)
Tue. 11/10 - Make Better Habits By Being Bad At Them
Tue. 11/17 - The Little-Known History of Transgender People
Tue. 11/24 - An Unexplained Monolith in the Utah Desert
Tue. 12/1 - China's Chang'e 5 Lands on the Moon
Tue. 12/29 - How Humans Began to Read and Write
Tue. 12/8 - Can We Pre-Design Vaccines For Future Pandemics?
Wed. 02/03 - Are We Too Cynical for Viral Stunts These Days?
Wed. 02/04 - An Unborn Baby's Debut Album
Wed. 02/10 - The Curious Case of the Purple Daisy Photo
Wed. 02/17 - How Perseverance Could Pave the Way for Humans on Mars
Wed. 03/31 - Why All The Galaxy Carpets In 90s Movie Theaters?
Wed. 04/07 - The 1970s Clubhouse Precursor
Wed. 04/14 - A Pterosaur With Opposable Thumbs?
Wed. 04/21 - Translating Whales' Conversations Using AI
Wed. 04/28 - How To Fix Our Crappy Toilets & Secure Our Future
Wed. 05/12 - How Epidemiologists Are Approaching Post-Vaccine Life
Wed. 05/13 - A Practical Guide to Avoiding COVID Risks
Wed. 05/19 - Is Carbon Neutral Gasoline Coming?
Wed. 05/26 - You Signed Up For a Vaccine Waitlist. Now What Happens To Your Data?
Wed. 06/02 - John Steinbeck's Unpublished Werewolf Murder Mystery Novel
Wed. 07/07 - Algae Beer, Lead-Poisoned Emperors, & mRNA Flu Vaccines
Wed. 07/14 - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ETAOIN SHRDLU TK TK TK
Wed. 07/29 - How To Peek Inside Someone Else’s Filter Bubble
Wed. 08/05 – Crystal Pepsi and the Harbingers of Failure
Wed. 08/12 - Sleepover At the Last Blockbuster in the World
Wed. 08/19 - A US Unit of Measurement Is Being Retired & The Swiss Have Chocolate Snow
Wed. 08/26 - Netflix's Enola Holmes Hit With Lawsuit From Doyle Estate
Wed. 09/02 - Super Medium Black Holes & An OG Viral Reboot
Wed. 09/09 - Modern-Day Willy Wonka Is Giving Away His Candy Factory
Wed. 09/16 - No Seasonal Peeps, Yes Taco Bell Wine
Wed. 09/23 - Eat a Five Star Dinner, From Your Car
Wed. 09/30 - Edward Hopper Copied Others in Early Paintings
Wed. 10/07 - Paid to Gate-Crash Funerals
Wed. 10/14 - Can Virtual Public Parks Save Democracy?
Wed. 11/11 - Why People Are Mad About Mary Wollstonecraft in 2020
Wed. 11/25 - Did Devo & Green Day Predict 2020?
Wed. 12/2 – Competitive Tetris Champions & Christmas Carols For Dogs
Wed. 12/30 - The Cognitive Case for Talking To Yourself