Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Today in 1854, the end of one of the great hoaxes of its day: a fire in a Philadelphia museum destroyed what people of that time thought was a super-intelligent chess robot. Plus: today in 2011, people in a skyscraper in Seoul, South Korea, reported the building shaking like it'd been in an earthquake. The real cause was a lot more down to earth.  How a Phony 18th Century Chess Robot Fooled the World (History.com) Korea solves mystery of shaking skyscraper (SF Gate) Nothing mysterious about how our show works, it's funded by our backers on Patreon --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/support