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Tue. 05/31 - Unionized Ghosts, Cat Burglars, & Quantum Bubbles

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A supremely weird “trivia” cartoon on Netflix. Plus, physicists made bubbles of gas atoms colder than space . And why the Buzzfeed News’ union contract includes legal protection against ghosts. Sponsor: Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/cool Links: The Weirdest Thing on Netflix (Slate) Cat Burglar: Bringing Tex Avery-Style Cartoons to Interactive Gaming (Indie Wire) 'Black Mirror' creator's Netflix video game 'Cat Burglar' cleverly skips the obvious choice (Mashable) Ultracold gas bubbles on the space station could reveal strange new quantum physics (Space.com) Researchers Made Ultracold Quantum Bubbles on the Space Station (Wired) Ultracold Bubbles on Space Station: New Quantum Research Experiments With an Exotic State of Matter (SciTechDaily) Buzzfeed News' union contract includes legal protections against ghosts (Boing Boing) Here's why the BuzzFeed News Union's contract includes protections from ghosts (Poynter) 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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0:00.0

Are you a smart booker or a silly booker?

0:07.4

Smart bookers get access to a three airport lounge by booking a five-star holiday with On the Beach.

0:13.8

Silly bookers?

0:14.8

Well, enjoy those cues at the bar.

0:17.1

Stop booking around and visit on the beach.com.

0:22.2

Conditions apply.

0:26.4

Seven night minimum stay outbound only from selected airports for up to six people at all protected.

0:29.7

On the beach.

0:39.9

It's Tuesday, May 31st, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, a supremely weird trivia cartoon on Netflix.

0:46.3

Plus, physicists made bubbles of gas atoms colder than space.

0:51.9

And why BuzzFeed News's union contract includes legal protection against ghosts.

0:59.0

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:04.4

Listen, if I see an article titled The Weirdest Thing on Netflix, I am obviously going to click it. Which is how this morning I

1:12.8

discovered, thanks to Toribosh at Slate, the absolutely bizarre, interactive cartoon, Cat Burglar.

1:20.6

Cat Burglar dropped on Netflix back in February, so perhaps you've discovered it already,

1:25.2

but this was the first I had heard of it.

1:29.6

And on the surface, it's not so strange.

1:33.4

It's an animated short about a cat burglar named Rowdy,

1:37.5

trying to steal some priceless artwork from the High Folutin Museum,

1:40.9

which is guarded by pint-sized guard dog, Peanuts.

1:46.1

The Tom and Jerry-style antics are ramped up by the the viewer, who in one of the latest incarnations of Netflix's interactive content determines which way the story will go

1:51.4

by answering trivia questions. Now, the antics that Rowdy and Peanut get up to perhaps aren't

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