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Fri. 06/19 - Space Cake: The Future of Astronaut Food

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Father’s Day-–its origins and how it’s celebrated around the world. How the astronauts onboard the International Space Station are giving a whole new meaning to “space cake.” A fake Nirvana song made with artificial intelligence. A library that is completely for the birds. And some more of the coolest videos I’ve seen this week for you to queue up this weekend. Sponsor: FitBod, Get one month free at Fitbod.me/goodnews Links: Father's Day Facts (Mental Floss) How 9 Countries Celebrate Father's Day (Mental Floss) Father's Day 2020: When Is Father's Day? (The Old Farmer’s Almanac) How to Make it Through Father's Day If It's Difficult For You (LifeHacker) The Significance of Baking Cookies in Space (Super Cluster) The first cookies baked in space are back on Earth! (Space.Com) YouTuber creates fake Nirvana song using artificial intelligence (NME) Livestream of Wonderful Library Themed Bird Feeder (Laughing Squid) How the Apple Watch Ejects Water in Slow Mo (The Slow Mo Guys, YouTube) Marble League 2020 Qualifiers (ML2020) (Jelle’s Marble Runs, YouTube) 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 good news ride home for Friday, June 19th, 2020.

0:41.1

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.5

Happy Juneteenth, everyone.

0:45.2

If you want more on Juneteenth, I did a segment on yesterday's show about the historical

0:50.6

context and the fight to make it a federal holiday.

0:54.0

But today, we are getting ahead on the weekend and talking about Father's Day, its origins

0:58.9

and how it's celebrated around the world.

1:01.5

Also, how the astronauts on board the International Space Station are giving a whole new meaning

1:07.6

to Space Cake, a fake Nirvana song made with artificial intelligence,

1:13.8

a library that is completely for the birds, and some more of the coolest videos that I have

1:19.7

seen this week for you to queue up this weekend. Here is your daily dose of good news.

1:27.8

It's Father's Day on Sunday, and whether or not you celebrate, you may be interested to know

1:34.2

how this holiday became a thing.

1:36.6

Is it a ploy by greeting card companies?

1:39.3

Where dad's upset that moms got a day all to themselves and demanded the same?

1:43.9

At least here in the U.S., no,

1:46.5

not quite. Like Mother's Day, it had been celebrated under various names and in different

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