- How Do You Mind?
- Transitions In Space
- UF Those
- Extras
CQ: Is there a place for “citizen science”, or does science need to stay within brick institutions to be legit?
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- Front Page
- 2 Eyes, 1 Cat
- Climate Chains
CQ: Are categorical boundaries ever consistently useful, or is our current dissolution of solid definitions a recognition of the truly changeable quantum state of the universe?
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- Front Page
- Slightly Impregnated With Ghosts
- A Base Instinct To Build Upon
- What The Hecknology
- Extras
CQ: Language is a technology, a software of communication. Just as our increasing easy of information access is preserving data formats and software, do you think there is less likelihood of permanent language change and loss than in, say, the medieval times, where English is a foreign country to modern speakers?
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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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