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11/18 - Real Talk on Thanksgiving Celebrations in 2020

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Science, Tech News, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Some real talk about celebrating Thanksgiving this year. How artificial intelligence is being used to recreate smells from history. And Bunny the Talking Dog, the latest viral star on Tiktok. Sponsors: Fitbod, Get one month free at Fitbod.me/kottke Fundrise, Get your first 90 days of advisory fees waived at fundrise.com/kottke Links: How to Reduce (but Not Eliminate) Covid Risk at Holiday Gatherings (Wired) A Pandemic Winter Safety Rule: Don't Spend Time Indoors (The Atlantic) How to Decide if It's Safe to Get Together For the Holidays (Kitchn) One-Pot Thanksgiving Dinner Recipe (Kitchn) Kitchn’s Guide for a Festive, Small-Scale Thanksgiving Menu (Kitchn)  Our Best Thanksgiving Menu for Just Two People | Kitchn (Kitchn) How AI Is Helping Researchers Recreate Historical Smells (Forbes)  Seeing by Smelling – How to Enhance the Experience for Blind and Low Sighted People in a Museum of 'Visual' Art (Odeuropa) How Bunny the dog is pushing scientists’ buttons (The Verge) TheyCanTalk.org I Am Bunny (@what_about_bunny) (Instagram) I am Bunny (@what_about_bunny) (Tiktok)  Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the cotkey ride home for for Wednesday, November 18th, 2020.

0:40.7

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.3

Some real talk about celebrating Thanksgiving this year.

0:47.2

How artificial intelligence is being used to recreate smells from history.

0:53.9

And Bunny, the Talking Dog, the latest viral star on TikTok.

1:00.3

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:06.3

All right, Thanksgiving is coming up here in the U.S.

1:09.5

And while being bombarded with headlines, CDC recommendations, and local alerts that

1:15.1

remind you how much you should not travel this Thanksgiving and only spend the holiday

1:20.3

with people already in your household, more than likely you, or at least some people that

1:26.6

you know, are making plans to break or bend those

1:30.6

recommendations in some way. Now, personally, I do think that the best strategy is to not have

1:36.2

indoor gatherings with people outside of our households, but I also recognize that just saying

1:41.8

that and nothing else is like abstinence-only education.

1:46.0

And as someone who grew up in Texas, a place with some of the strictest abstinence-only education

1:50.5

regulations and some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy, I know that simply telling someone

1:57.2

not to do something without giving them any other education or advice on what to do

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