On the show this week:
- Front Page
- The Limerick of Life
- By The Numbers (Approximately)
- Stupid, Funny or Awesome?
CQ: How can some humour or knowledge can only be understood in a single language — and will we ever reach a state of “universal language” in which all things can be described?
Full list of 31 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- An Unnatural Selection
- Signs of Parallel Universes
- A Sense of Place
- Extras
CQ: Has humanity become too risk-averse to properly allow a generation of space explorers?
Full list of 34 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- From Down Here
- From Within
- From Up There
- That’s Entertainment
- Extras
CQ: What would you put in a 10-year time capsule — and how does that differ from what you would have put a decade ago?
John Mierau’s Walk the Fire anthology, Volume 2 Kickstarter
Full list of 62 articles after the jump!
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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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TWS211: The Unnatural Deception of the Natural World
CQ: With all the information overload we’re experiencing these days, should we just give up and forget history?
CQ: What if there had been another highly intelligent species on Earth?
Bumper: Alexa Chipman of Broken Sea’s Maudelayne – a very awesome audio drama series about the strange goings-on at Maudelayne College, where myth invades relaity!
Promo: Clinton from Comedy4Cast – another fine example of the comedy genre called “I’ve got so many voices in my head, I can cast an entire comedy radio show from them”!
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Sounds Interesting, Sounds Fishy
- History is full of Dead Things
- It’s a Jungle Out There (And In There, Too)
- Extras
Full list of 55 articles after the jump!
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TWS193: Look! In The sky!
CQ: Do we need to clean up our act and our planet before tackling space travel, or can we just leave our origin planet in a mess and move on?
On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- Transplants
- All Creatures, Great and Small
- Extras
Update: The book that Arkle mentioned is The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World, by Thomas M. Disch, Free Press, 1998. Apparently, it won a Hugo award in 1999. I’d never heard of the book, but it’s existence isn’t surprising. I’ll keep it on my “used book store finds” list (which I will create right now).
Full list of 45 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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TWS165: Mononomenclaturatility
CQ: Singularity?
BUMPER: Jonathan McNeill
PROMO: Gilmore Girls rewatch
PROMO: All Games Considered
On the show this week:
- Front
- Critters
- Mind
- Tech
- Extras
Full list of 51 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Stupersticious
- Symbolicious
- Extras
CQ: Can you truly appreciate a work of art if you can’t understand it — such as watching a film in a language you don’t understand, or seeing a painting with symbolism you don’t get, or music which you don’t catch the subtleties? Is art like that wasted on those who do understand it, or should it be reachable by most people to be valuable?
Bumper: Scott Sigler
Promo: Technorama
Promo: How To Grow Your Geek
UPDATE: Amazing! After mentioning the memory of someone illustrating the sound of what our solar system might be like, I ran across this Flash animation of the sound of our solar system (link via io9). It’s not the sounds I remember – I think the one I remember had Haley’s comet as well – but it’s still a pretty cool sound and coincidence..
Full list of 68 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Woo F’n Oohs
- Cryptoboology
- It’s All In Our Mind
- Extras
CQ: Biological parts wear out, and humans are living longer and longer — perhaps “long enough to live forever”. Will organ and limb replacements become as common as eyeglasses?
Bumper: Mainframe
Promo: Milk Carton TV
Promo: Podiobooks
Full list of 68 articles after the jump!
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