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)
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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 TWS077: Food, undies and Japan: one of these does not stink.
On the show this week:
- Japan FTW!
- Food is What We Eat
- Space is the Place
This week’s Challenge Question: (repeat)
Where did life on Earth come from? Panspermia, spontaneous chemical reaction, God, aliens.. Make it funny, make it clever or make it serious.
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Show Notes for TWS073: Hi Tech/Lie Tech
This week’s episode dedicated, at least in spirit, to the late, great Ripley. Such cats are rare. She will be missed.
On the show this week:
- Tech-now-logy
- Big Brother-In-Law
- Secret Dreams of Organs and Animals
- Spare Parts (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question: (repeat)
What is a current technology or way of doing things that we should revert to an older way of doing?
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Show Notes for TWS069: Neither Up Here Nor Down There
On the show this week:
- Death (but not always in a bad way)
- Everything a bigger story in Texas
- Stuff we made up
- Monkey business
- This show is longer on the inside
This week’s Challenge Question:
What is an essential skill that people should know — but they (generally) don’t?
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Show Notes for TWS052: Golden Nuggets of Ambition In A River of Stupidity
On the show this week:
- Inventions of Future Past;
- Chronic Ironic;
- Wreck Less Ambition;
This week’s Challenge Question: If you were to get a scientific, sci-fi or generally geeky tattoo, what would it be? And, if you like, where would it be?. Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to encaf1[[at]]gmail.com, record your message via the MobaTalk client on the right hand side of Encaffeinated!, leave an answer on Facebook or call in at 206-203-2292.
Show Notes for TWS051: The Journey to 1000 Stars Begins With 1 Planet… And Our Pets
On the show this week:
- UFO, IFO, WeAllFO
- Holy Irony, Catman!
- Space Is All Up In The Air
As mentioned, I have a page on Facebook, where I will also be placing my Questions.
Speaking of that, this week’s Question:
What new device will be created into the future that initially will seem like a dumb idea yet turn into a widely used, must-have thing? Or what device will be just dumb?. Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to encaf1[[at]]gmail.com, record your message via the MobaTalk client on the right hand side of Encaffeinated!, leave an answer on Facebook or call in at 206-203-2292.
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