TWS214: Flora C-Chord
CQ: Q1: Do you think a clear, irrefutable, universal revelation of alien life would have a devastating or positive effect on humanity — or would it have no real effect at all?
Q2: If immortality is only available to one gender of humans, should it be granted at all?
Bumper: Braindouche! - an eclectic mix of music, art, thought, randomness!
Promo: Nutty Bites! - Geekstress Extraordinaire Nuchtchas’ Celebration of the World of Awesome!
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Rocks are really grounded
- Life: you found it *where*?
- Black and White, Red and Blue
- Extras
Full list of 75 articles after the jump!
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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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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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TWS193: Look! In The sky!
CQ: Do we need to clean up our act and our planet before tackling space travel, or can we just leave our origin planet in a mess and move on?
On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- Transplants
- All Creatures, Great and Small
- Extras
Update: The book that Arkle mentioned is The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World, by Thomas M. Disch, Free Press, 1998. Apparently, it won a Hugo award in 1999. I’d never heard of the book, but it’s existence isn’t surprising. I’ll keep it on my “used book store finds” list (which I will create right now).
Full list of 45 articles after the jump!
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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
Full list of 49 articles after the jump!
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TWS176: Turn the Other Other Cheek
CQ: It could be said that science fiction not only attempts to predict the future, but perhaps even to create it. What is the most amazing science fiction concept or object that you think we should try to make into a reality — even if it is impossible?
Bumper: A fan!
Promo: Harmonics by Collin Earl
Promo: Podiobooks.com
Promo: Nutty Bites (nimlas.org)
On the show this week:
- Turning to the Front Page
- Turning Cheeky
- Cheeky Turning
- Extra Cheeky
Full list of 58 articles after the jump!
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TWS166: Replacing Knowledge With Compatible Reason
CQ: With the growth and common access to global communication technology, and the recognition that the relationships you make with them are often as valuable as those with local people, how do you envision the future society to be connected — or is this all just a fad?
Bumper: Mer, of Braindouche!
Promo: Technorama
Promo: Braindouche!
On the show this week:
- Wacky Front Page!
- Wacky Nature!
- Wacky Science!
- Wacky People!
- Wacky Extras!
Full list of 69 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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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
Full list of 70 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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