On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Woo F’n Oohs
- Cryptoboology
- It’s All In Our Mind
- Extras
CQ: Biological parts wear out, and humans are living longer and longer — perhaps “long enough to live forever”. Will organ and limb replacements become as common as eyeglasses?
Bumper: Mainframe
Promo: Milk Carton TV
Promo: Podiobooks
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Show Notes for TWS128: Mind, Body & Snack
On the show this week:
- Brothers In Harms
- When Your Mind Is Not On Sex
- Broken Rules Will One Day Fly (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
When the aliens come down, bent on destorying humanity, and they turn to you to represent humanity well… What joke will you tell?
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(I originally asked this question for George Hrab’s live version of The Geologic Podcast. Listen to his show for comedy, music, stories and a heapin’ helpin’ of skepticism. Not for everyone, but definitely for someone. 
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Show Notes for TWS100: A Century of Progress (?)
On the show this week:
- The Important Stuff I Usually Don’t Get To
- “Obvious” Science Anyone Can See
- Things Getting Off The Ground (EXTRA)
- Lawful Refinement (EXTRA)
- The Stuff That Extra Scrapes Off Its Shoes (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
A) What do you want to see more of different in the next 100 episodes of TWS?
B) Is science too pedantic? Do we focus too much on the tried-and-true? Where is the adventurous scientist — or is that not possible?
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Show Notes for TWS097: Even Fake Bigfoots Leave Large Wakes
Show notes aren’t quite done. I ran out of brain — and then discovered hornets (!) in the studio. Will update soon.
On the show this week:
- Bigfool
- Health, Wealth and Long Wife
- Things That May Or May Not Be
- I Plead Insanity (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What’s the one place you’d like to visit, and why? And, why aren’t you going?
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Show Notes for TWS096: Don’t Worry, There Really Weren’t Any Rules
On the show this week:
- Bigfoot or Bigfool?
- Breaking the Laws
- DNAgent In Control
- Colourful Stories Outside My Lines (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
How can we assume personal responsibility if we are just biochemical machines?
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Show Notes for TWS095: Never Take A Vacation, Never Turn Your Back On The Weird
So, I take a little time away, and the world goes nuts.. Woo hoo! 
On the show this week:
- The Montauk Monster
- Bigfeet
- Dr. Ed Michell
- Minor Spectacularities
- EXTRA: Appendage Anomolies Got Cut
- 90% fits in 10% (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
We are more connected as humans than ever more — but are those connections stronger or weaker? Are we better connected, but the connections are less meaningful?
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Show Notes for TWS091: Get Out And Invent As If The World Depended On It
On the show this week:
- Clever People Doing Clever Things
- Apocalypsii
- Rebels Come
- Angry Hordes (extras)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Do you think that a world-changing invention could come from an independent, small-time innovator any more?
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(This episode is a little late; hated the original mix, remixed it today, then re-encoded it as mono 96kbps to make it smaller than normal. Let me know if the quality is messed up. Sounds good to me! — encaf1)
Show Notes for TWS064: Making Slow Time With Bigfoot
On the show this week:
- It’s (Not) (Not) All In (Not) Your (Not) Mind (Not)
- Bigfoot and Time are both Fleeting
- The Stuff Beyond Time (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Is the Christmas Holiday a good thing or a bad thing? Should we eliminate Santa, the reindeer, the tree, the lights — all these irrational symbols that are weighed down by religious history?
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Show Notes for TWS063: I Believe, The Future Stinks
On the show this week:
- If you Believe this, I’ve got some Moonlight in Arizona to sell ya..
- Animals will outsmart us all
- The future stinks
- The Important Stuff (Extras)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Do you think that you will need to make great sacrifices in your life in order to save the environment? Or, is this not an immediate problem?
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Show Notes for TWS054: When we have left this planet, the robots, aliens and gerbils will take over.
On the show this week:
- What is Health?
- Invasion… with OUTER SPACE!
- Rules, Rules, Everywhere the Rules
This week’s Challenge Question:
What rule that exists is either overused or should never be enforced? Why? What rule doesn’t exist but should?
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