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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TWS134: A New Term To Multiply
The winner of Nuchtchas from Nimlas TWS contest is: zackmann on Twitter! Yay!
CQ: What small and absurd-sounding investigation will change the world? Alternatively, what is one that already has done so?
On the show this week:
- Til Health Do We Part
- All Creatures Gait And Squall
- That’s just not right..
- That’s just not part of the show.. (EXTRA)
Full list of 94 articles after the jump!
Show Notes for TWS129: Space Between Your Ears Is The Final Frontier
On the show this week:
- Unbelieve you me, it’s the truth!
- Hard-hitting Science — On the Edge!
- Shredded Wheat and Chaff (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
In celebration of JC Hutchins’ recent book release (Personal Effects: Dark Art) — which is a delightfully physical book with physical artifacts — here is the digital question: games, gatherings, music, news, books, bills, phone books, mail, movies, television, photographs: we are increasingly living in a non-physical world. What will the ultimate expression of this be? Or will we rebel, and return to physical things because they are “real”?
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Oh, and tell her she’s awesome for doing this, would ya?
- Promo: The House Of Grey — A story of a typical teenaged life: going to high school (albeit the most exclusive high school in the world), living life (albeit with scars both physical and emotional), dealing with growing up (albeit with no memory of who you are except frightening visions of a power you don’t understand), meeting girls (albeit some of the most beautiful and mysterious girls on the planet) and doing homework (albeit some of it is magical training). A story revealing layers both mundane and supernatural in the life of Monson Grey, sole survivor of the attack on Barity Bridge.
- Promo: Guardians — An experiment in urban fantasy from Kimi Alexandre, host of Tale Chasing. This has just started, and promises to be quite a ride!
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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. 
Win some original artwork for subscribing or getting others to subscribe! My good friend Nuchtchas is running a little contest: if you started listening to TWS recently, or you turned someone else to listening to TWS, Tweet @nuchtchas or send her an email. Go to nimlas.org/blog and click on “Contest” for more details.
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Show Notes for TWS125: Do You Sense Me Sensing You?
On the show this week:
- For Great Justice!
- Distraction for Discovery
- Don’t Believe Everything You Sense
- Unsensed but not Unseen (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
I think it’s fair to say that today, we communicate with each other more than we ever have before: email, blogs, web pages, Twitter, telephones, instant messaging… But are we really saying anything more than we were 50 years ago — or anything that will be important in another 50? Or is the conversation always, essentially, the same?
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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 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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Show Notes for TWS088: On A Mental Vacation
On the show this week:
- Get Away From It All
- Mind Control
- Lost Baggage (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
When we can simply “upload” to our brains, what will be the best/worst use of this? What unexpected problems or benefits might arise?
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