Vast Reserve of Hydrogen Found, Weird Wednesday - Fish Getting Busy, Googly Eye Sculptures, "Trekkie" Plate Issues, and a Festive Car. Plus, TDIH - Piltdown Skull Hoax

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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A vast reserve of geologic hydrogen was found. Plus, Weird Wednesday has fish getting busy after an earthquake, sculptures with googly eyes, the "Trekkie" license plate that was causing trouble, and a festive car. Also, on This Day in History, we look back at the Piltdown skull hoax. Massive new energy source discovered hiding under Earth’s surface | BBC Science Focus Magazine Northern California earthquake prompts an endangered Death Valley fish species to get busy | Phys.org Stop sticking googly eyes on sculptures says US city - BBC Newsround Woman ticketed thousands of dollars because license matched numbers on ‘Star Trek’ ship | WBAY - ABC 2 Look: Driver stopped in Wyoming for covering car in Christmas lights - UPI.com How the Piltdown Man skull became the greatest hoax in anthropology - History Skills Study reveals culprit behind Piltdown Man, one of science's most famous hoaxes | Science | AAAS How to Solve Human Evolution’s Greatest Hoax | Smithsonian Sponsored by Factor - use promo code coolstuff50 to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping Factormeals.com/50coolstuff Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.3	Welcome back to the Weird Wednesday version of Cool Stuff Ride Home, where we still bring you
0:41.3	some of the interesting and intriguing stories around the world, along with the weird ones.
0:46.6	I'm Reggie Rizu alongside Marcus Paff on today's episode, A Vast Reserve of Geologic Hydrogen is
0:52.1	found. Plus, on Weird Wednesday, we cover fish getting
0:55.6	busy after an earthquake, sculptures with googly eyes, the trekkie license plate that is causing
1:01.2	trouble, and a festive car. Also, on this day in history, we look back at the Piltdown Skull
1:06.6	hoax. That's all coming up on cool stuff. Well, turning to BBC science focus and author Noah Leach,
1:13.3	how much energy we use and where it comes from has long been the central problem of the climate
1:19.2	crisis. That's why some strategies have turned to tapping into new cleaner fuels. A new discovery
1:25.1	of the vast reserve of hydrogen energy hiding beneath the Earth's surface
1:29.7	could help. But just how much of a difference could it really make? Well, geologic hydrogen
1:34.5	is formed during natural geochemical processes in the Earth, and so far has been discovered
1:39.8	in just a few places, including Albania and Mali. A new study published in the journal Science
1:45.8	Advances estimates these reserves stretch all around the globe. The studies publishers suggest
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