- Big Picture Items
- Spooky Science
- Culture Clash
CQ: Can we have another Roswell-like event, or have we either a) made the aliens cautious about coming near the planet or b) become too cynical or observant to fall for such a confusion or hoax again?
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- Thinking About It
- Japanimated
- Space Between Your Fears
- Death is a Plug-in
- What Are, Water, Everywhere?
CQ: Presume that humans that grew up on different planets are genetically modified — whether by nature or science — and therefore more adapted to different environments. Would they still be eligible for the Olympics?
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- Real Virtual
- Look To The Skies
- Robots Art Changing
- Environmental Relapse
- Displaced Extras
CQ: What should people be taught: what they *should* know, or what they *need* to know?
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- Mind Bullets
- Bee/Movies
CQ: Have we really invented any new scares for mankind, or are they just window dressing over things that frightening the more primitive animal ancestors?
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- Front Page
- Haunted
- Reconfigured
- Extras
CQ: Are we living (at least in the West), in a delusion of modernity, when reality is much more normal, old-fashioned and mundane than the technological dream we both imagine we have now and strive to solidify?
FlashPulp.com – short, intense stories
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- Front Page
- The Limerick of Life
- By The Numbers (Approximately)
- Stupid, Funny or Awesome?
CQ: How can some humour or knowledge can only be understood in a single language — and will we ever reach a state of “universal language” in which all things can be described?
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Show Notes for TWS122: I brain, therefore I thought
On the show this week:
- Didn’t See That Coming…
- I Have Something On My Brain
- History Has Been Cancelled Due To Ratings and Cutbacks
- More Than Met the I (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
On one level, everything around us is just things – including us. But there is another layer, a semantic layer, a layer of what things mean, an invisible layer right on top. Is that layer as real as the other layer – or maybe even more real?
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MobaTalk client on the right hand side of The WEIRD Show or call in at 1-206-203-2292.
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