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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Links:

• 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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