What exactly is blue moon-flavored ice cream and where did it come from? Plus, NASA is planning to purposefully hit an asteroid with a spacecraft, more on why and when. And this year’s Ig Nobel Prize winners have been announced!
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The Enduring Midwestern Mystery of Blue Moon Ice Cream (Atlas Obscura)
BLUE MOON (Chicago Tribune)
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Oct 2023
🧸 “Toy-vasion” — Toys ‘R’ Us’ land-air-sea plans. Covid’s Nobel Prize. Sphere’s U2 concert.
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Apr 2022
To the Moon Artemis, Oh Snap!, The Skunky Funk of Cannabis
Today, you’ll learn about a super exciting space program, blasting off in a few months, that will take us back to the moon for the first time in 50 years, how the simple snap of your fingers actually involves some cool physics and the chemistry behind the skunky stank of cannabis ... Show More
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Jan 2021
Mission To Mars | Seeing Red | S42-E1
<p>Even after the Apollo program put astronauts on the moon, Mars remained out of reach. Then, in 1990, an ambitious engineer hatched an ingenious plan to send the first humans to the red planet. But will anyone at NASA buy into his idea?</p><p>You can binge all episodes of Ameri ... Show More
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