NOTE: This is the full version of the show, which contains at least 20 minutes that didn’t make it on the radio!
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- No Closure for Disclosure
- Sensory Deception
- If You Build It
- Extras
PROMO: Walk The Fire Volume 2: Kickstarter – A shared-world SF anthology! Go listen to the entire first volume, then support the second being made!
PROMO: Nutty Bites – A fun podcast filled with awesome — including the ever-popular Nutty Debates! Nutty tells me there is going to be a live debate at Balticon this year, as well!
CQ: Name a single fiction — whether a novel, a TV series, a movie, a play, whatever — which has made a profound change and inspiration in your life — and tell us why it should inspire others.
Full list of 36 articles after the jump!
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TWS213: Shameless, Blameless and Lameness
CQ: Having recently read “The Wealthy Barber”, and noting its lamentations about basic financial education, I started to think about other areas which could use some basic education. For example, where is the equivalent book for health and diet issues (“The Healthy Barber”)? What areas of basic education do we either do poorly or not at all?
Voting has begun for the 2012 CHSR Barry Awards! While it would be appreciated if you voted for me, I’d really just like you to vote for *someone*. Support campus/community radio!
Bumper: Mainframe from Geek Out With Mainframe (gowmainframe.blogspot.com)
Promo: Kakophonos Internet Radio (kakophonos.com)
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- All Creatures (Fake and Small)
- Say It Ain’t So
- Antigovernmentarianism
- Extras
Full list of 61 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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TWS134: A New Term To Multiply
The winner of Nuchtchas from Nimlas TWS contest is: zackmann on Twitter! Yay!
CQ: What small and absurd-sounding investigation will change the world? Alternatively, what is one that already has done so?
On the show this week:
- Til Health Do We Part
- All Creatures Gait And Squall
- That’s just not right..
- That’s just not part of the show.. (EXTRA)
Full list of 94 articles after the jump!
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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?
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.
Full links to all stories covered and many more after the jump!
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Show Notes for TWS091: Get Out And Invent As If The World Depended On It
On the show this week:
- Clever People Doing Clever Things
- Apocalypsii
- Rebels Come
- Angry Hordes (extras)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Do you think that a world-changing invention could come from an independent, small-time innovator any more?
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 TWS077: Food, undies and Japan: one of these does not stink.
On the show this week:
- Japan FTW!
- Food is What We Eat
- Space is the Place
This week’s Challenge Question: (repeat)
Where did life on Earth come from? Panspermia, spontaneous chemical reaction, God, aliens.. Make it funny, make it clever or make it serious.
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.
Full links to all stories covered and many more after the jump!
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Show Notes for TWS073: Hi Tech/Lie Tech
This week’s episode dedicated, at least in spirit, to the late, great Ripley. Such cats are rare. She will be missed.
On the show this week:
- Tech-now-logy
- Big Brother-In-Law
- Secret Dreams of Organs and Animals
- Spare Parts (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question: (repeat)
What is a current technology or way of doing things that we should revert to an older way of doing?
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 TWS069: Neither Up Here Nor Down There
On the show this week:
- Death (but not always in a bad way)
- Everything a bigger story in Texas
- Stuff we made up
- Monkey business
- This show is longer on the inside
This week’s Challenge Question:
What is an essential skill that people should know — but they (generally) don’t?
Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to wierdshow[[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.
Full links to all stories covered and many more after the jump!
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