- Perceptive Problems
- Knowledge Lost & Found
- To Nobel or To Ig Nobel
- Extras
CQ: If we mine asteroids and other planets for their resources and bring them back to Earth, will we *overstock* the Earth with things?
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- 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.
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- Sounds Like A Broken Record
- Not What You’d Expect To Find
- Extras
CQ: Humans have been actively transforming their environment for millenia, instead of being transformed by it — but does that make us less natural and weaker as a result, and how should we try to ensure that a human being is capable of surviving when our technology fails?
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Show Notes for TWS056: A Non-Traditional Tradition
On the show this week:
- XTREEMLY interesting
- EXTREEEM science!
- Peru and other space objects
- Adaptation Nation
This week’s Challenge Question: What traditions do you still honour? What traditions have fallen by the wayside or you never honoured, but you’d like to?. 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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