On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Stupersticious
- Symbolicious
- Extras
CQ: Can you truly appreciate a work of art if you can’t understand it — such as watching a film in a language you don’t understand, or seeing a painting with symbolism you don’t get, or music which you don’t catch the subtleties? Is art like that wasted on those who do understand it, or should it be reachable by most people to be valuable?
Bumper: Scott Sigler
Promo: Technorama
Promo: How To Grow Your Geek
UPDATE: Amazing! After mentioning the memory of someone illustrating the sound of what our solar system might be like, I ran across this Flash animation of the sound of our solar system (link via io9). It’s not the sounds I remember – I think the one I remember had Haley’s comet as well – but it’s still a pretty cool sound and coincidence..
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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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CQ: How much of a human can we replace and still call ourselves human? What about the brain? Does it remain human right to the last brain cell?
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- We Are All Mechanical Animals
- Celebreaktions
- Extras
Bumper: Jonathan McNeil of Troll Jammies
Promo: Braindouche!
Promo: Paul E Cooley’s “Closet Treats”
Promo: Just because I couldn’t attend, doesn’t mean that I can’t get something out of Balticon this year! I’ll be listening to The Balticon Podcast
Full list of 57 articles after the jump!
TWS153: Apocalypse Meow
Promo: Merciless Storytellers
Promo: Parsec Awards 2010
CQ: Which is better: a single standard that works reasonably well for everyone — but not perfectly! — or multiple standards which work perfectly for each person, but are incompatible with each other?
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Everyone Is Going Mental
- Baab The Builder?
- Invading The Animal Kingdom
- Extras
Full list of 81 articles after the jump!
An unusual episode, to be sure.. Recorded entirely with my Zoom H2, and without any sort of research. Kinda like flying by the seat of my pants, except that instead of pants I’ve got a large inflatable balloon, and instead of flying I’m hurtling to the ground at obscene speeds..
The title is even more meaningless than normal, but it sounded right and punny enough.. I suppose I could explain it by showing how my thoughts are rather long but hollow in the middle, and have points at both ends..
… but that would be silly!
- BUMPER: The unstoppable New York Times bestselling horror author and podcast enthusiast, Scott Sigler
- Not home (I blame Sherwin Sleeves)
- PROMO: Digital Magic, the sequel to Chasing The Bard by kiwi princess Pip Ballantine
- PROMO: Braindouche!, a podcast about.. well, that’s hard to explain, but it amuses me greatly, keeps me off balance
- PROMO: The Great Debate, a podcast in which fictional characters debate RPG situations, yet it is entirely real..
- What is the value of a lie? The scientific method and humility; testing stories; “there are no bad ideas, only those which are inadequate or inappropriate for a given context”; is this becoming Wandering Out Loud?
- PROMO: TekDiff, a multi-character comedy podcast interspersed with a magical realism serial audio drama — all performed by one amazing dude!
- PROMO: Sea of Stars, a fan production in the universe of Star Blazers (in which I humbly play the narrator)
- PROMO: Technorama, in which two geeks talk about geeking out about geeky things.
- a memory lost negates its own existence; the inheritance of non-physical complex traits; evolution vs consciousness
CQ: Would immortality be boring?
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 TWS126: I Brained That You Incorrectly Mind
On the show this week:
- You Might Think That
- And You Might Be Wrong
- Broken Record are Music
- Broken Notes are Recorded (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Are countries forever to be necessary? For a while, it was “think globally, act locally” — is it now “think locally, act globally”?
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Show Notes for TWS119: We Are All Made Up Of What We Give Others
On the show this week:
- Records, Numbers and Statistics Count For Something
- Built For Sharing
- Apocalypses, Both Big And Small
- The Rest of the Universe (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Given that human perception is apparently limited to what we need to survive — no X-ray vision, no infrared, no ultraviolet, no sound visualization (although you might argue that’s what our ear does..) and no radiation vision — but the universe has more beyond what we can see, does the universe hold surprises that we just don’t perceive? And will we ever perceive the rest of the universe?
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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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Show Notes for TWS114: Chemical Romance
On the show this week:
- Love ‘em and Leave ‘em
- Space is Big(-ish)
- Crazy Random Happenstance
- More Than You Know (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What is your “bathroom book”, your “throne text”, your “pausing perusing”? Or what *should* be?
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