On the show this week:
- Well Isn’t That Spacial
- Science Friction-less
- Extras
CQ: Which is better: seeking to uplift animals to near- or above-human intelligence, or creating entirely new, artificial intelligent beings?
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Don’t Mean To Pry, Mate
- The Digital Analogue
- Extras
CQ: Which will come first: world peace, or interstellar space travel? Is one necessary for the other?
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Show Notes for TWS126: I Brained That You Incorrectly Mind
On the show this week:
- You Might Think That
- And You Might Be Wrong
- Broken Record are Music
- Broken Notes are Recorded (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Are countries forever to be necessary? For a while, it was “think globally, act locally” — is it now “think locally, act globally”?
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Show Notes for TWS120: I Better Think We May Think Better
On the show this week:
- There’s Something In The Air..
- Mental, Minimal, Criminal
- Technophobophilophobia
- After the End Of It All (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Can we be plugged in too much? Or is that just old-fashioned, pre-telecom-ubiquity thinking?
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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 TWS100: A Century of Progress (?)
On the show this week:
- The Important Stuff I Usually Don’t Get To
- “Obvious” Science Anyone Can See
- Things Getting Off The Ground (EXTRA)
- Lawful Refinement (EXTRA)
- The Stuff That Extra Scrapes Off Its Shoes (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
A) What do you want to see more of different in the next 100 episodes of TWS?
B) Is science too pedantic? Do we focus too much on the tried-and-true? Where is the adventurous scientist — or is that not possible?
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