A Planet Orbiting Two Suns in Perpendicular Fashion! Evidence of Life in a Faraway World? TDIH: The History of the Crossword Puzzle

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Today's episode features a space theme with a planet orbiting two suns, a faraway world with the potential for life, This Day in History looks back at the crossword puzzle. Weirdest Planetary System Ever? Meet the Planet That Spins Perpendicular to Its Stars Scientists find 'strongest evidence yet' of life on distant planet Who Invented Crossword Puzzles? Meet Creator Arthur Wynne The First Crossword Puzzle | Mystic Stamp Discovery Center First Crossword Puzzle Book Published American Crossword Puzzle Tournament Contact the show: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.5	Welcome back to Cool Stuff Ride Home. He's Reggie Rizzou.
0:55.0	My name is Marcus Paff, and we're bringing you some of the cooler stories from around the world.
0:59.0	Today's episode features a space theme with a planet orbiting two suns, and in a manner you won't believe.
1:06.0	Separately, evidence that a faraway world may contain life.
1:10.0	And on this day in history, we look back at the
1:12.9	legacy of the crossword puzzle. All coming up on cool stuff. Up first today, an article from the BBC
1:19.3	and author Pallab Ghosh. Scientists have found new, but tentative evidence that a far away world
1:25.8	orbiting another star may be home to life.
1:29.3	A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18B has detected signs of
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