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Weird Wednesday - Cyborg Insect Swarms, Illegal Illness, Toilet Seats Versus Toilet Paper, Left Out Bananas, and TDIH 0 The Battle of New Orleans

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

It is a Weird Wednesday episode, and we cover scientists that have developed technology to control cyborg insect swarms, a town that made getting sick illegal, toilet seats that can’t handle toilet paper, and another town that is just going bananas over pealed bananas- we’ll explain. Plus, on This Day in History, we look back to the Battle of New Orleans. Scientists develop technology to control cyborg insect swarms | ScienceDaily Scientists develop technology to control cyborg insect swarms | TechXplore Swarm navigation of cyborg-insects in unknown obstructed soft terrain | Nature Communications Italian mayor's proclamation makes it illegal to get sick - UPI.com Toilet maker warns customers not to wipe the seats with toilet paper - UPI.com Peeled bananas left on English street corner each month vex locals - UPI.com TDIH: Chalmette National Historical Park (Battle of New Orleans) TDIH: The American Battlefield Trust's map of the War of 1812 Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815 TDIH: Battle of New Orleans YouTube: Johnny Horton Sings The Battle of New Orleans (1959) TDIH: The Battle of New Orleans Sponsored By Acorns - Head to at acorns.com/cool or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today! Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Cool Stuff Ride Home, where we have some of the more interesting, intriguing,

1:06.2

and cool stories from around the world.

1:08.3

In fact, today we're going to have a lot of those weird stories because it's a weird Wednesday episode. And we're going to be talking about scientists

1:14.9

that have developed technology to control cyborg insect swarms, a town that made getting sick

1:20.4

illegal toilet seats that can't handle toilet paper, and the town that is going bananas will explain.

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Plus, on this day in history, we look back to the Battle of New Orleans.

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That's all coming up on cool stuff.

1:33.2

Scientists from Nan Yang Technological University in Singapore, Osaka University, and Hiroshima

1:38.6

University have developed an advanced swarm navigation algorithm for cyborg insects, marking

1:43.8

a breakthrough in swarm robotics.

1:46.1

Published in nature communications, this algorithm prevents cyborg insects from getting stuck

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