Wed. 07/13 - When Coal Was "Un-American"

What can the slow and timid adoption of coal in the US tell us about the transition to solar and wind power? Plus, this newly-discovered dinosaur sheds some light on why T-Rexes had those tiny li’l arms. And, when cities welcome physical monuments to fictional pop culture characters.

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When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said 'No Thanks' (Smithsonian Magazine) Fraud, Failure, and Frustration: This Is the Story of America's First Energy Transition (The Atlantic) Weird Old Book Finder Old episode about the Weird Old Book Finder (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Behold Meraxes, Argentina’s Ancient ‘Giant Dragon’ (Atlas Obscura) Newly discovered dinosaur had tiny arms like T. rex (National Geographic) Newly Discovered Giant Predatory Dinosaur Had Tiny Arms, But It's Not Related to T. Rex (ScienceAlert) Albuquerque Erecting Statues of Walter White And Jesse Pinkman (IGN) Netflix knows you miss Eddie Munson, so they immortalized him in an Indiana cornfield (Mashable) Old episode about less-popular recipes from the Kelloggs brothers (Cool Stuff Ride Home) The Fake 2000s Yo-Yo Career of 'What We Do In the Shadows' Mark Proksch (Cool Stuff Ride Home) The 1920s Transgender Clinic Destroyed By the Nazis (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Who Invented the High Five? (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Why All The Galaxy Carpets In 90s Movie Theaters? (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Jackson Bird on Twitter

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