Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

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Three minutes each weekday of cool facts, weird news and awesome discoveries with Brady Carlson. Back us at http://patreon.com/bradycarlson

Episodes

Carlton Fisk’s Home Run Wave Changed TV Sports, But It Almost Didn’t Get Filmed At All

Oct 21, 6 AM | 3½ mins

High Jumper Dick Fosbury’s Biggest Win Was Also A Flop

Oct 20, 6 AM | 3½ mins

Pigeons Would Make Pretty Good Art Critics

Oct 19, 6 AM | 3½ mins

Félicette, The First Cat In Space

Oct 18, 6 AM | 4 mins

Grace Bedell, The Girl Who Got Abe Lincoln To Grow A Beard

Oct 15, 6 AM | 3 mins

Indiana Bell Rotated And Moved Its Office Building - And Kept Working There During The Move

Oct 14, 6 AM | 3 mins

Ellen Ochoa Blazed Trails In Space (And Played The Flute Up There)

Oct 13, 6 AM | 3 mins

The Next Big Thing In Home Insulation? Mushrooms

Oct 12, 6 AM | 3½ mins

Edmonia Lewis, A Sculptor Who Brought Her Subjects To Life

Oct 11, 6 AM | 3½ mins

Mollusk Shells Inspire An “Unbreakable” Glass

Oct 8, 6 AM | 3 mins

The Rhino That Won A Seat On São Paulo’s City Council

Oct 7, 6 AM | 3½ mins

The “Chat Checkout” In The Netherlands Makes Sure Everyone Has Someone To Talk To

Oct 6, 6 AM | 3½ mins

A Nigerian Energy Startup Literally Gives Power To The People

Oct 5, 6 AM | 3½ mins

Donald J. Sobol’s Encyclopedia Brown Books Taught Young Readers To Solve Mysteries

Oct 4, 6 AM | 3½ mins

Melitta Bentz Gave Coffee Lovers A Filter To Keep The Grounds Out Of Their Drinks

Oct 1, 6 AM | 3 mins

Sunlight Plus Salt Water Equals A Cooling System

Sep 30, 6 AM | 3 mins

Willie Mays Made The Catch, And That Was Only The Start Of His Play

Sep 29, 6 AM | 3½ mins

Eleonora Sears, A Pioneer In Basically All The Sports

Sep 28, 6 AM | 3½ mins

The Mountain Goat Airlift Of 2018

Sep 27, 6 AM | 3½ mins

These Worms Have No Ears But They Hear Pretty Well Anyway

Sep 24, 6 AM | 3½ mins

The Jetsons Gave 1962 A Glimpse Of The Future

Sep 23, 6 AM | 3½ mins

Leonard Cohen, Of All People, Once Played A Villain On “Miami Vice”

Sep 22, 6 AM | 3 mins

The Parrots That Almost Did Publicity For A Mae West Movie

Sep 21, 6 AM | 3½ mins

A Liner Note Detective Wants The World To Know Something About The “London Calling” Cover Photo

Sep 20, 6 AM | 3½ mins

The Cheeseburger Has More Than One Origin Story

Sep 17, 6 AM | 3 mins

Two Families Escaped East Germany In A Homemade Hot Air Balloon

Sep 16, 6 AM | 3½ mins

When Agatha Christie Wasn’t Writing Mysteries, She Was Surfing

Sep 15, 6 AM | 3 mins

Two Tortoises Orbited The Moon Before Humans Did

Sep 14, 6 AM | 3 mins

A Century Ago, Hugo Gernsback Predicted Telemedicine

Sep 13, 6 AM | 4 mins

Babies Babble, And So Do Baby Bats

Sep 10, 6 AM | 3 mins