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..
Full list of 68 articles after the jump!
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
Full list of 68 articles after the jump!
BUMPER: Alexa Chipman (from Maudelayne and more!)
PROMO: Tuning In To Sci Fi
PROMO: PodCulture
CQ: When we humans develop the ability to completely remodel our solar system — say, into a Dyson sphere — should we do it? Why or why not?
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Failiens
- Flee Your Mind (And The Jest Will Follow)
- Animastication
- Extras
Full list of 84 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!
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!
Full links to all stories covered and many more after the jump!
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 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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Full links to all stories covered and many more after the jump!
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 TWS099: Demonstrating My Lack Of Brain Power
On the show this week:
- Religioneering and Evoludicrous
- A Manner of Minding
- Can’t Stop (or Explain) The Firefly
- Miscellaneous Etcetera (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Are we (humanity) genetically (or otherwise) destined to be on top on this planet? Do we have to struggle to stay on top?
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Show Notes for TWS082: Outer Sight, Outta Mind
On the show this week:
- UFOney
- Cray Matter
- Stories covered at 30000 ft (and falling fast)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Can you truly have mind over matter? Or do you really just shut off senses?
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