TWS212: Balancing On The Laser’s Edge
CQ: Okay, so Star Trek’s communicator and cyberpunk’s wearable computer because the modern cell phone. Pick another science fiction (or fantasy) genre invention and project what it will become, practically speaking. Will jetpacks become personal ski-lifts? Will robots become uplifted dogs with speech?
Bumper: Zzipp ‘n’ co Podcast Show (zzipp.podomatic.com)
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- It’s The Fuzz!
- Life Until Death
- Liminal Criminals
- Extras
Full list of 50 articles after the jump!
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TWS204: Shorter Grow The Days, Longer Grow The Hours
CQ: How do you restore your faith in humanity? What gives you hope, when the cynicism gets thick?
Bumper: Scott Sigler
Promo: Garaaga’s Children
Promo: Podiobooks.com
Promo: Technorama
On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- There
- Out There
- Really Out There
- Christmas
- Extras
Full list of 44 articles after the jump!
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TWS201: Post Thematic Stress Disorder
CQ: Is there any value in the unknown — or should we seek and accept the goal of “total knowledge of everything” that science seeks to find? Is that even possible?
Bumper: Geek Out With Mainframe
Promo: Teknikal Diffikulties
Promo: Geek Out With Mainframe
Promo: Garaaga’s Children by Paul E. Cooley
On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- Triology
- Things Where They Shouldn’t Be
- UFO? UAC! IDK ROFLMAO
- Extras
Full list of 52 articles after the jump!
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TWS165: Mononomenclaturatility
CQ: Singularity?
BUMPER: Jonathan McNeill
PROMO: Gilmore Girls rewatch
PROMO: All Games Considered
On the show this week:
- Front
- Critters
- Mind
- Tech
- Extras
Full list of 51 articles after the jump!
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CQ: Celebrations like Halloween stem from ancient beliefs and superstitions. Do you think it will be possible, in our so-called “enlightened” age, to create new traditions like that — or are we too skeptical, jaded or serious to really do it?
PROMO: Halloween Haunt – My favourite seasonal podcast!
PROMO: TekDiff – Home of the fantastic, Parsec-award winning comedy podcast (Teknical Diffikulties) and the eerie/funny audio drama, The Account.
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Tricks
- Treats
- Extras
Full list of 75 articles after the jump!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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
Full list of 86 articles after the jump!
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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!
Full list of 70 articles after the jump!
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