The new book “Hyphens and Hashtags” looks at where all our punctuation marks have come from. Some of them, like the highly versatile asterisk, have been around for thousands of years. Plus: if you've had a week that made you want to scream, Japan has a Screambulance that may help. 

A Star Is Born (Lapham's Quarterly)

Japan’s Screambulance, is a haunted house delivery service that scares you anywhere, anytime (Luxury Launches)

Our Patreon backers make most* of our episodes

*actually, all

---

Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/support