TWS228: By The Care of My China-Chin-Chin!
CQ: Are we in danger of being the generation that never grew up? Or are we just the generation that never grew old?
Promo: Technorama (technorama.com) – a weekly geekly.
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- The Bend Of Life
- Beards, Beasts and Politics
- Extras
Full list of 46 articles after the jump!
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TWS214: Flora C-Chord
CQ: Q1: Do you think a clear, irrefutable, universal revelation of alien life would have a devastating or positive effect on humanity — or would it have no real effect at all?
Q2: If immortality is only available to one gender of humans, should it be granted at all?
Bumper: Braindouche! - an eclectic mix of music, art, thought, randomness!
Promo: Nutty Bites! - Geekstress Extraordinaire Nuchtchas’ Celebration of the World of Awesome!
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Rocks are really grounded
- Life: you found it *where*?
- Black and White, Red and Blue
- Extras
Full list of 75 articles after the jump!
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TWS200: Omnipresient Unreliable Narrator
CQ: We’ve gone through an industrial revolution, a social revolution, a communications revolution and now we are in the midst of an information revolution. Suppose the next one is an identity revolution. What could be breakthrough in identity in the next few years to overhaul the notion of identity, and what will identity look like?
Bumper: Scott Sigler
Promo: Every Photo Tells
Promo: Technorama
Promo: Podiobooks.com
On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- Scientific Revelations
- Unquiet Bones
- Extras
Full list of 47 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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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.
Full list of 30 articles after the jump!
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Show Notes for TWS122: I brain, therefore I thought
On the show this week:
- Didn’t See That Coming…
- I Have Something On My Brain
- History Has Been Cancelled Due To Ratings and Cutbacks
- More Than Met the I (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
On one level, everything around us is just things – including us. But there is another layer, a semantic layer, a layer of what things mean, an invisible layer right on top. Is that layer as real as the other layer – or maybe even more real?
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.
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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 TWS107: Is There No Eye In Truth?
On the show this week:
- Belief It Or Not!?!
- Bio-licious!
- By Any Other Name (It Still Has Thorns)
- Offal (But not that bad!) (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Should alternative, “fringe” ideas ever be covered seriously by mainstream media — or are they just “slow news day” items?
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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Show Notes for TWS105: *foop* pumpkin
On the show this week:
- Severed Limbs
- Costumes
- The Thin, Red Love Line
- Playing With Your Mind
- Splayed Innards (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Will we ever see actual supervillians?
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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Show Notes for TWS054: When we have left this planet, the robots, aliens and gerbils will take over.
On the show this week:
- What is Health?
- Invasion… with OUTER SPACE!
- Rules, Rules, Everywhere the Rules
This week’s Challenge Question:
What rule that exists is either overused or should never be enforced? Why? What rule doesn’t exist but should?
. Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to encaf1[[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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