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
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Show Notes for TWS121: Life, Death and the Shocks In Between
On the show this week:
- “Let There Be Life!” said God to the Scientists
- Shocking Uses of Technology
- Death and Dangerous Apes
- Afterlife (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Will we eliminate death as a certain, inevitable faite for mankind? Will it be possible for a human to live forever? Is that good — or bad?
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Show Notes for TWS117: Be still my bleeding heart
On the show this week:
- Body of Evidence
- Illegal or Just Plain Wrong?
- The End of It All
- Wishy-washy out-of-timey-wimey stuff (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Should love be eliminated in a totally rational world?
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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?
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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 TWS099.5: Fredback!
- Feedback from: Mr Gadgets (Bruce!), Fred Trellis and Shaded Spriter
- Theme Song: Caffeine by Grubspoon from The Podsafe Music Network
- Further Investigation from Fred Trellis
- This 25-year old stories covers zombies in a more traditional sense. I need to finish reading it.. – Time/CNN: Zombies: Do They Exist?
- A radio series that was recommended to me; this episode deals with finding yourself — your mental self, it seems. Haven’t listened to it yet. – WNYC/Radiolab: Where Am I?
- A site dedication to the science of the mind, as illustrated in the moment of near death. Fascinating, and I’ll be digging around here more. – Horizon Research Foundation: CULTURE AND NDE
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Show Notes for TWS099: Demonstrating My Lack Of Brain Power
On the show this week:
- Religioneering and Evoludicrous
- A Manner of Minding
- Can’t Stop (or Explain) The Firefly
- Miscellaneous Etcetera (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Are we (humanity) genetically (or otherwise) destined to be on top on this planet? Do we have to struggle to stay on top?
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Show Notes for TWS097: Even Fake Bigfoots Leave Large Wakes
Show notes aren’t quite done. I ran out of brain — and then discovered hornets (!) in the studio. Will update soon.
On the show this week:
- Bigfool
- Health, Wealth and Long Wife
- Things That May Or May Not Be
- I Plead Insanity (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What’s the one place you’d like to visit, and why? And, why aren’t you going?
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Show Notes for TWS096: Don’t Worry, There Really Weren’t Any Rules
On the show this week:
- Bigfoot or Bigfool?
- Breaking the Laws
- DNAgent In Control
- Colourful Stories Outside My Lines (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
How can we assume personal responsibility if we are just biochemical machines?
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Show Notes for TWS089: Say What You Think You Believe, and Things Happen
On the show this week:
- Substance of Superstition
- Flock of Families
- Cavalcade of Communications
- Unspoken Utterances (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What are your favourite/worst/most memorable “lies-to-children”? Are they good, in general? Bad? Important? Unimportant?
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Show Notes for TWS078: Humanufacturing the Universe
On the show this week:
- WE GOTTA GET OFF THIS ROCK!
- Humanufacturing the World
This week’s Challenge Question:
Is domesticating animals keeping them down – or lifting them up? Will we “uplift” any other animals – through affection, genetics, robotics, cybernetics, etc? Or what *should* we uplift and for what purpose?
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