Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Today is the birthday of Roger Babson, who once hired stonecutters to carve giant motivational slogans into a series of boulders in Massachusetts during the Great Depression. Plus: a research team from Harvard and MIT has announced a new high-tech face mask with disease-spotting biosensors. It can spot germs more or less in real time!  Babson’s Boulders: A Millionaire’s Odd Dogtown Legacy (New England Historical Society) Face masks that can diagnose COVID-19 (Harvard) Our Patreon backers keep us thinking positive every day! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message