TWS343: By Grapthar’s Hammer!

On January 30, 2016, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS343 logoOn the show this week:

  • Learning To Fail
  • Apocalypse How?
  • Future Toys
  • Future Imperfect

CQ: What would you do if you thought that existence was about to end in 5 minutes?

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TWS228: By The Care of My China-Chin-Chin!

On July 7, 2012, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS228: By The Care of My China-Chin-Chin!

CQ: Are we in danger of being the generation that never grew up? Or are we just the generation that never grew old?

Promo: Technorama (technorama.com) – a weekly geekly.

On the show this week:

  • Front Page
  • The Bend Of Life
  • Beards, Beasts and Politics
  • Extras

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TWS178: Not Quite Dead Yet (But Almost)

On April 16, 2011, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS178: Not Quite Dead Yet (But Almost)

CQ: With the growth of telecommunications and the rising price of fuel, will Asimov’s fictional vision of a society where people travel almost never at all in person come to be? Or will it be the convention-style or “big-trip” travel style, where you travel rarely but it’s a really big thing?

Bumper: Alexa Chipman (of Maudelayne from Broken Sea Audio)

Promo: Podiobooks.com

Promo: How To Grow Your Geek (now celebrating 300! episodes!)

On the show this week:

  • Front Page
  • Organ Grounder
  • Slight Unseen
  • You Only Think You Thought That
  • Extras

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TWS161: Celebrating Weirdsgiving

On October 30, 2010, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

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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TWS153: Apocalypse Meow

On April 24, 2010, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

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

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TWS151: Wise Men Say What Fools Know

On April 3, 2010, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS151: Wise Men Say What Fools Know

Bumper: JR Murdock, author of V and A Shipping

Promo: All Games Considered

Promo: Tuning In To Scifi

CQ: These days, we seem to be fascinated, as a society, in the convergence and ubiquity of technology. We want all of our devices to work with each other, and all of our devices and things to be connected to each other. Is this just a fad, or do you think that, in 100 years, the idea of having separated items that aren’t integrated with the rest of your digital live will be unusual?

On the show this week:

  • Front Page
  • April Fools May March
  • Illectronics and Madgets
  • You Thought You Did, But You Didn’t
  • Extras

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TWS125: Do You Sense Me Sensing You?

On April 18, 2009, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

Show Notes for TWS125: Do You Sense Me Sensing You?

On the show this week:

  • For Great Justice!
  • Distraction for Discovery
  • Don’t Believe Everything You Sense
  • Unsensed but not Unseen (EXTRA)

This week’s Challenge Question:
I think it’s fair to say that today, we communicate with each other more than we ever have before: email, blogs, web pages, Twitter, telephones, instant messaging… But are we really saying anything more than we were 50 years ago — or anything that will be important in another 50? Or is the conversation always, essentially, the same?
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TWS124: Life Mirrors Fart

On April 11, 2009, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

Show Notes for TWS124: Life Mirrors Fart

On the show this week:

  • Always Blame The Farting Dog
  • Life is a Scifi/Horror Movie
  • Shocking Revelations! (dropped on the cutting room floor) (EXTRA)

This week’s Challenge Question:
A “recession” is sometimes indicated by two consecutive quarters of “negative growth”. The economy, it is suggested, should always be growing. Forever and ever… Does this principle of infinite growth actually make sense?
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TWS120: I Better Think We May Think Better

On March 7, 2009, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

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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TWS119: We Are All Made Up Of What We Give Others

On February 28, 2009, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

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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