Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes about time. In this episode from November 2019, we look at November 1883, when railroads across the United States adopted a uniform system of time, more or less getting all of us in sync with each other. But what was time like before then? Plus: Japan has had cat cafes, hedgehog cafes and bunny cafes. Now there's a minipig cafe! Time! (Library of Congress) Standard Time Zones In U.S. Mark 100 Years (New York Times) The Adoption of Standard TimeIan R. Bartky (Technology and Culture) Mipig Harajuku: We visit the new micro pig cafe in Tokyo (Sora News) It's definitely time to back Cool Weird Awesome on Patreon  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/support