Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Hundreds of thousands of laborers toiled for decades to build Egypt's legendary Great Pyramid... or did they? Professor Emeritus Vaclav Smil of the University of Manitoba did the math and found a very different conclusion. Plus: it's the birthday of baseball great Dave Parker, who once hit a home run that stopped 150 miles away from the ballpark.  How Many People Did it Take to Build the Great Pyramid? (IEEE Spectrum) Dave Parker Lives With Parkinson's Disease As Another Hall Of Fame Class Heads To Cooperstown Without Him (The Undefeated) Knock it out of the park every day as one of our backers on Patreon --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message