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Wed. 02/03 - Are We Too Cynical for Viral Stunts These Days?

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

What causes ice ages? The science behind your frying pan. You know, the one that’s supposed to be non-stick but isn’t. Scientists explain why. Other scientists have engineered spinach to send emails. Sort of. And did you hear about the Hollyboob prank? If not, or if you supremely don’t care, it may say more about our current relationship to viral stunts than the stunt in question. Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/GOODNEWS OurCrowd, ourcrowd.com/kottke Links: Ice Ages: What Causes the Earth to Freeze Over Every Few Million Years? (Discover Magazine) Glad You Asked: Ice Ages – What are they and what causes them? (Utah Geological Society) The un-ice age (Earthdata, NASA) Scientists Explain Why Food Still Sticks to Your Stupid Non-Stick Pan (Gizmodo) Scientists have taught spinach to send emails (Euro News) Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives (MIT News) Spinach email joke (Ambrose Persimmon, Twitter) Why an influencer turned the Hollywood sign into the Hollyboob sign (CNET) 'Hollyboob' and the End of the Viral Stunt (MEL) 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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0:00.0

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Subject to availability ends 14th of february welcome to the cotkey ride home for

0:28.1

wednesday february third 2021 i'm jackson bird what causes ice ages the science behind your frying pan you know the one that's supposed to be non-stick, but isn't.

0:42.1

Scientists explain why. Other scientists, presumably not the same ones, but hey, maybe, have engineered

0:49.1

spinach to send emails, sort of. And did you hear about the holly boob prank?

0:57.1

If not, or if you supremely don't care,

1:00.1

it may say more about our current relationship to viral stunts

1:04.2

than the stunt in question.

1:06.6

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:12.5

With the Nor'Easter having rolled in on the East Coast

1:15.8

and leaving us with almost two feet of snow here in New York City,

1:19.6

I've been thinking a lot about climate change and extreme weather

1:23.2

and the global temperature changes throughout the planet's history,

1:26.7

which led me to some information about what actually causes ice ages to occur.

1:33.8

And before we get into that, an interesting fact that I feel like I learned sometime before, but still sounds so implausible that I had to double check.

1:41.4

Technically, we are currently living through an ice age. Sounds bananas,

1:46.7

I know, but it's true. The current ice age began about three million years ago. So why doesn't

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