Today’s episode brings us the converting of aircraft wind (from jet engines) into energy, the fossilized bee that is puzzling scientists, and on This Day in History; the invention of Nylon.
US airport installs world’s first pods that turn jet blast into power | Interesting Engineering
Incredible 14.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil Bee Discovered In New Zealand | IFLScience
Scientists Just Unearthed a 14.6-Million-Year-Old "Bee Fossil"—Its Origins Don’t Make Sense | Daily Galaxy
A bee from the middle Miocene Hindon Maar of southern New Zealand (Hymenoptera, Colletidae) - Scientific Publications of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris
Nylon and the Double Helix
Wallace Hume Carrothers
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Converting Aircraft Wind into Energy, Fossilized Bee Puzzles Scientists, and TDIH: Nylon Invented | Cool Stuff Ride Home podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
