On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Things of Internet
- Winter is Coming
CQ: Science fiction often projects this, but: should humanity have one, unified, consistent world government, and what could that look like?
Promo: The Flash Pulp Podcast (http://flashpulp.com) – An incredible series of pulp-style stories told over a multiverse of styles and often inter-related characters. It comes out frequently and always engages. I started listening last year at episode 1, and have crested over episode 300 this year. I’m still looking forward to every episode, and will relish the day I’ve caught up — right up to the point I realize I have to start waiting for episodes! Listen and enjoy!
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TWS273: A Fresh Old Start
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Broken Premises
- The Unnatural World
- Historical Blindness
- Extras
CQ: What one thing would a person from the year 2014 find recognizeable in humanity or its creations in the year 20014? What would have radically changed the most?
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On the show this week:
- 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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On the show this week:
- Front
- Things We May Want
- DO NOT WANT!
- Extras
CQ: In a purely rational world, there can be nothing but truth which is valued; but in much of art, falsehood and non-truth are often the best ways to tell the story. Are rationality and art always going to be at odds, and should we let rationality dominate our lives?
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Can I Get A Witness?
- Polly-sigh and Criminology
- Winventions
- Extras
CQ: Is it important to strive for perfection in your life, or is it more important to reach self-acceptance?
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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?
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Juxtaposition is Just A Position
- Science Still Works
- Work Still Works
- Extras
CQ: Is History accelerating? Is there more happening now, at a pace every increasing, than ever before?
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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
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TWS212: Balancing On The Laser’s Edge
CQ: Okay, so Star Trek’s communicator and cyberpunk’s wearable computer because the modern cell phone. Pick another science fiction (or fantasy) genre invention and project what it will become, practically speaking. Will jetpacks become personal ski-lifts? Will robots become uplifted dogs with speech?
Bumper: Zzipp ‘n’ co Podcast Show (zzipp.podomatic.com)
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- It’s The Fuzz!
- Life Until Death
- Liminal Criminals
- Extras
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TWS201: Post Thematic Stress Disorder
CQ: Is there any value in the unknown — or should we seek and accept the goal of “total knowledge of everything” that science seeks to find? Is that even possible?
Bumper: Geek Out With Mainframe
Promo: Teknikal Diffikulties
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Promo: Garaaga’s Children by Paul E. Cooley
On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- Triology
- Things Where They Shouldn’t Be
- UFO? UAC! IDK ROFLMAO
- Extras
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