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?
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TWS213: Shameless, Blameless and Lameness
CQ: Having recently read “The Wealthy Barber”, and noting its lamentations about basic financial education, I started to think about other areas which could use some basic education. For example, where is the equivalent book for health and diet issues (“The Healthy Barber”)? What areas of basic education do we either do poorly or not at all?
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Bumper: Mainframe from Geek Out With Mainframe (gowmainframe.blogspot.com)
Promo: Kakophonos Internet Radio (kakophonos.com)
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- All Creatures (Fake and Small)
- Say It Ain’t So
- Antigovernmentarianism
- Extras
Full list of 61 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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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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TWS167: LeakyWicks
CQ: Is reason the enemy of imagination? Is rationality the death of dreaming?
Bumper: Mainframe
Promo: Wiener Blut (“Viennese Blood”) podnovel
Promo: Every World News
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- WackyLeaks
- Call It Like You Sees It
- Slyentific
- Extras
Full list of 65 articles after the jump!
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TWS156: Gotta Find A Way To Live, Man
CQ: I’m recently discovering that my somewhat reduced collection of possessions is a refreshing way to live. Should we all try to live with a reduced amount of stuff, as if we are shipping off on a spaceship and every kilo counts? Or is that unrealistic?
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Up To No Good
- Origins
- Extras
Promos:
- Bumper: Alexa Chipman, the awesome scriptress of the Maudelayne audio drama series.
- Promo: Luscious Leftovers, sensual talk about good food and other sources of pleasure.
- Promo: Wander Radio, just beyond your radio dial.
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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?
Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to
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MobaTalk client on the right hand side of The WEIRD Show, follow me on Twitter or call in at 1-206-203-2292.
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Show Notes for TWS116: So Little Time Is Now
On the show this week:
- The Past Tells A Story..
- (Not So) Simply Criminal
- The Future Holds Potential
- Uncertain Present (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Is Humanity is a rut?
Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to weirdshow[[at]]gmail.com, leave a comment or record your message via the MobaTalk client on the right hand side of The WEIRD Show or call in at 1-206-203-2292.
Thanks to @martyndarkly from the excellent Movie Mantras podcast for the Ibex tip and anim5 of The International Detective Dragons From Outer Space podcast for, well, just making me think.
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Show Notes for TWS091: Get Out And Invent As If The World Depended On It
On the show this week:
- Clever People Doing Clever Things
- Apocalypsii
- Rebels Come
- Angry Hordes (extras)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Do you think that a world-changing invention could come from an independent, small-time innovator any more?
Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to weirdshow[[at]]gmail.com, record your message via the MobaTalk client on the right hand side of Encaffeinated!, leave an answer on Facebook or call in at 206-203-2292.
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