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Cool Stuff Daily

Thu. 11/18 - AMC Will Soon Deliver Popcorn to Your Home

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Will we soon have a new Planet Nine? The first human trial for an Alzheimer’s nasal vaccine is about to be under way. And Papa John’s has changed their name. Technically. And AMC Theaters has said, “movies, who? Never heard of her. We’re a popcorn company now.” Sponsors: Tentree, Use code KOTTKE to get 15% off at tentree.com Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottke Links: Planet 9: Old data could uncover the Solar System's newest world, 38 years late (Inverse) A 1980s Space Telescope May Have Seen Planet Nine (Gizmodo) Mysterious Object Glimpsed Decades Ago Might Have Actually Been Planet Nine (Science Alert) In Depth | Hypothetical Planet X (NASA) First human trial of Alzheimer's disease nasal vaccine to begin at Boston hospital (CBS News) Brigham and Women’s Hospital is testing a nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease (Boston Globe) Business Insider catches up with disgraced Papa John Schnatter (A/V Club)  Papa John's redesigns its logo and stores (CNN) Papa John's drops apostrophe, is now Papa Johns (The Takeout)  AMC Theatres Will Start Selling Popcorn Outside of Movie Theaters (Variety) AMC to start delivering popcorn straight to your house (A/V Club) The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC says (Nieman Lab) Cancelling Cable (Saturday Night Live, YouTube) 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 khaki ride home for for Thursday, November 18th, 2021.

0:40.5

I'm Jackson Bird today.

0:42.6

Will we soon have a new 9th planet?

0:46.4

The first human trial for an Alzheimer's nasal vaccine is about to be underway.

0:51.9

And Papa Johns has changed their name, technically, and AMC

0:57.0

theaters has said movies, who? Never heard of her. We're a popcorn company now. Here are some of the

1:03.5

cool things from the news today. Earlier this month, I got the chance to visit the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville,

1:13.5

Alabama, which was overall really freaking cool. They got one of the Saturn 5 rockets on display,

1:19.5

as well as all kinds of cool stuff like a moon rock and that chunk of Skylab that fell into

1:24.2

Western Australia and Apollo 12's mobile quarantine facility, which took on a

1:29.0

whole new vibe in our present times. But before you even get inside, they've got these plaques for

1:34.2

each of the planets in our solar system, starting with Mercury right at the front doors,

1:38.5

and then proceeding proportionately for how far away the planets are from each other, such

1:43.1

that Venus and Earth's plaques are down the main walkway,

1:46.5

and then Saturn is off in the middle of the parking lot, and the others were so far away that we couldn't even see them from the front entrance.

1:53.4

And you can tell they've been there for a while, too, based on how faded the info sheets on the plaques are, at least a couple decades probably.

2:00.2

So my friend and I got curious

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