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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TWS133: Up Close ‘n’ Personal, from Far ‘n’ Wide
CQ: If you could — if money and employment were available — would you change cities you lived in every decade? Every 5 years? How often is ideal? How radical would your city change be — from one side of the world to the other? Across the country?
Promos:
- GeekCred – Steve Riekeberg’s podcast of interviews from all over the geek universe.
On the show this week:
- Blame The Animals
- (un)Life Or (un)Death Situation
- EXTRA: Woo Eff Ooohs
- EXTRA: Uncovered then reburied
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Proper show notes to follow (generated via my excellent new buddy, the OMEGA support system for TWS!).
TWS132: To Boldly Return To Where I’ve Never Gone Before
CQ: If you were to convert your brain, your programming, into a digital form, then run that instance of you on a computer, would it be murder to turn it off? Or suicide? What if you terminated your physical self — would you still be alive, in the machine? Tell me your posthuman digital thoughts.
On the show this week:
- Animals and Other forms of life
- Inventioneering
- Outrageous behaviour
Promos:
- The House of Grey – A podiobook whose every episode leaves you with new revelations, new questions and more.
- The TWS Contest! – Tell somebody about the show, then tell Nimlas about it, and get entered into a contest for original art! Spread the word!
- Technorama! – Chuck and Kreg have returned to their weekly format of geekery, makery, computery goodness. Hoorah!
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Show Notes for TWS130: Go In to Go Out
On the show this week:
- Life-Sized
- Staycation, Playcation, Graycation
- Forgotten Luggage (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
It’s easy to be cynical and snarky; what one thing do you do or reflect on to avoid the snark?
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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.
Oh, and tell her she’s awesome for doing this, would ya?
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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.
Oh, and tell her she’s awesome for doing this, would ya?
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Show Notes for TWS127: This Is Your Blank On Life
On the show this week:
- This Is Your Brain On Life
- This Is Your Life On Life
- This Is Your Life After Life (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What’s the one event anywhere in the world, at any time, that you’d like to attend — or should exist when it doesn’t?
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Show Notes for TWS122: I brain, therefore I thought
On the show this week:
- Didn’t See That Coming…
- I Have Something On My Brain
- History Has Been Cancelled Due To Ratings and Cutbacks
- More Than Met the I (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
On one level, everything around us is just things – including us. But there is another layer, a semantic layer, a layer of what things mean, an invisible layer right on top. Is that layer as real as the other layer – or maybe even more real?
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Show Notes for TWS121: Life, Death and the Shocks In Between
On the show this week:
- “Let There Be Life!” said God to the Scientists
- Shocking Uses of Technology
- Death and Dangerous Apes
- Afterlife (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Will we eliminate death as a certain, inevitable faite for mankind? Will it be possible for a human to live forever? Is that good — or bad?
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Show Notes for TWS120: I Better Think We May Think Better
On the show this week:
- There’s Something In The Air..
- Mental, Minimal, Criminal
- Technophobophilophobia
- After the End Of It All (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Can we be plugged in too much? Or is that just old-fashioned, pre-telecom-ubiquity thinking?
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Show Notes for TWS118: I Could Be Small In Japan
On the show this week:
- Life-sized
- (Not So?) Smart… Not?
- Mushylanneous (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What “absolutely true” thing do you and everyone know that has never been scientifically proven (as far as you know)?
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