On the show this week:
- Demonstrousity
- Scientiffy
- Looks Good, Looks Bad
- Another Kind of World
CQ: Approximately what percentage of the universe as we know it — and perhaps, as we will ever know it — is completely made up by us, and what percentage is objective reality?
Full list of 13 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Patient, Heal Thy Self
CQ: Everybody compared inventions for ages as “the best thing since sliced bread”. Tell me a modern equivalent: what’s an invention in the last 20 years that seems relatively simple, but which has made the greatest impact to daily life?
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- That Is Not Dead
- Information Society
CQ: Will English (or any other base language, for that matter) eventually absorb every other language and become universal, or will we always have vastly different languages?
Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- SCIENCE! Faction
- Seasons Freakings
- Extras
CQ: We once erected permanent markers to stand for those who have died, but in this digital age, do you think that digital memorials will stand the test of time — or are we going to be a generation completely lost, forgotten in the future?
Full list of 30 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Mysteries: Solved
- The World Come Undone
- Extras
CQ: Is original art less valuable when it can be easily reproduced by technology?
Special guest co-host (and good friend) Pat joins me to keep the facts straight!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- It’s All In Your Head
- Yeti Spaghetti
- Extras
CQ: One of the problems with most films that depict the future is that they feel unrealistic: either not enough has changed, or too much. Discuss how your favourite time travel film deals with this, and what makes it successful or unsuccessful.
Full list of 34 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front
- Things We May Want
- DO NOT WANT!
- Extras
CQ: In a purely rational world, there can be nothing but truth which is valued; but in much of art, falsehood and non-truth are often the best ways to tell the story. Are rationality and art always going to be at odds, and should we let rationality dominate our lives?
Full list of 28 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Deviated
CQ: Should our computers enforce rules of their own for time off, vacations and places of peace?
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Gap The Mind
- Relish the Haze Gone By
- Extras
CQ: Name some aspect of human culture that has yet to be remixed, reinvented or otherwise significantly changed or abandoned due to modern technology — and then propose how it could or should be changed.
Full list of 38 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- 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?
Full list of 31 articles after the jump!
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