On the show this week:
- Front Page
- An Unnatural Selection
- Signs of Parallel Universes
- A Sense of Place
- Extras
CQ: Has humanity become too risk-averse to properly allow a generation of space explorers?
Full list of 34 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Science Friction
- Mistaken Hide Entity
- Extras
CQ: What impact, if any, would you think that the confirmed discovery of Bigfoot, alien beings or perpetual motion devices have on everyday life?
Full list of 29 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- In Between
- Front Page
- Life
- Death
CQ: Is a world in which “equal pay for equal work” is a _universal_, world-wide right a possibility or a pipe-dream?
Full list of 35 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- BigNewsFoot
- Hearts and Minds
- Future Artificial Intelligence Life (FAIL)
- Extras
CQ: Should we avoid tragedy and large impacting events at all costs, or should we accept the changing nature of the universe, and let some things be beyond our control?
Sadly, we bid goodbye to the voicemail this month. It wasn’t called in a while, and had really been just me calling it every month. I may get another one, but for now, we’ll rely on other methods (like email).
Full list of 42 articles after the jump!
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TWS202: An Episode That Never Wasn’t
CQ: Whether it is the Occupy movement or the Thrive movement, many have been saying that the societal structure we’ve built up has gone wrong somewhere. What is one concrete, non-abstract, physical or philosophical way that each individual can change society as a whole?
On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- Putting the ‘ODD’ in ‘crODDime’
- Texture: Terrestrial
- Extras
Full list of 50 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: If you were to take the Great Driving Tour of North America, Europe or anywhere in the world, what is one must-see place to go?
Bumper: Geek Out! With Mainframe
Promo: Technorama
Promo: Bell’s In The Batfry
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Once Was Blind
- And Now I See (Too Much)
- Extras
Full list of 59 articles after the jump!
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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
Full list of 68 articles after the jump!
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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. 
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