TWS374: Crusty Leftovers

On February 2, 2017, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS374 logoOn the show this week:

  • The One and Only

CQ: Given global communication and the expense of air travel (and its carbon impact), is the world becoming smaller or larger? Do we see less of the world or more?

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TWS364: Substituted With My Own

On August 18, 2016, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS364 logoOn the show this week:

  • Survival
  • The Pain In Rain Is The Main
  • Active Mentality
  • Mental Activity
  • SExtras

CQ: What’s a philosophical question you’ve yet to find a satisfactory answer for?

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TWS340: Stuffed Under The Flying Tree

On December 23, 2015, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS340 logoOn the show this week:

  • First World Problems
  • Starring The Wars
  • Inverted Expectation
  • Extras

CQ: If some lessons can truly only be learned by encountering them in fiction, what stories should we tell to the AI to give them a better chance of turning out good?

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TWS324: Abstract Thoughts, Concrete World

On August 9, 2015, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS324 logoOn the show this week:

  • Front Page
  • Mind Your Please and Cues
  • Why-Tech

CQ: Will the present-day cultures we identify ourselves with have any meaning once we have transitioned into an inter-planetary species — or will they mean even more?

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TWS317: Inescapable Subsequences

On May 19, 2015, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS317 logoOn the show this week:

  • Front Page
  • Virtual Virtues
  • Prosthetic Fallacy
  • Universal Attraction

CQ: What’s one thing from today — a technology, an idiom, a cultural feature — that will survive to be recognizeable 5000 years from now — and what’s one thing that will almost make it, but not quite?

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TWS255: Slowly Fast, Like Life As Melting Glacier

On July 23, 2013, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS255 logoOn the show this week:

  • Front Page
  • Healthy, Wealthy and Wise
  • Man’s Beast Friends
  • Extras

CQ: With the Internet making us globally connected, are we seeing an erosion of the concept of a “day” in favour of a “semi-random moment of synchronicity”?

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TWS115: Life Will Be What We Make It

On January 31, 2009, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

Show Notes for TWS115: Life Will Be What We Make It

On the show this week:

  • DOOM is MOOD reversed
  • Self-Deterministic Meat Machines
  • _____ To A Different Tune
  • Extra Appendages (EXTRA)

This week’s Challenge Question:
What is your swan song, memorial, legacy, remembrance?
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 The WEIRD Show, leave an answer on Facebook or call in at 206-203-2292.

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TWS114: Chemical Romance

On January 18, 2009, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

Show Notes for TWS114: Chemical Romance

On the show this week:

  • Love ’em and Leave ’em
  • Space is Big(-ish)
  • Crazy Random Happenstance
  • More Than You Know (EXTRA)

This week’s Challenge Question:
What is your “bathroom book”, your “throne text”, your “pausing perusing”? Or what *should* be?
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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TWS099: Demonstrating My Lack Of Brain Power

On September 20, 2008, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

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 TWS083: The World is Out To Get You (Sick)

On May 3, 2008, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

Show Notes for TWS083: The World is Out To Get You (Sick)

A small personal note: this week I bid a sudden farewell to Chuck and Kreg of Technorama, on of my favourite
podcasts. They’ve decided to call it complete for the regular show, leaving me a bit in the lurch. I’ll survive, but it still hurts. I thank them both, and wish
them all the best in the future.

On the show this week:

  • Life Will Go On..
  • The birds and the bees do it: mysteries of sight unsound…
  • Evilization?
  • The other 90% of the show. (EXTRAS)

This week’s Challenge Question:
What one things are you going to do to change the future for the better?
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