On the Show This Week: (something entirely different)
- Interview: Barbara Minton on Discovering Orbs
- Interview Scott Reaney and Mike Marshall on Chronologies: Book of Giants
- Interview: Christan Baloga on Hair Bat Sculptures
- Clichéwatch: ‘if [x] didn’t exist, [y] would have to invent it’ at The UK Telegraph
CQ: f you could imagine a project that should be crowdfunded, what would it be (and why would it be *necessary* that it exist). And please: Imagine Widely.
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Knowledge is Immaterial
- Bodies are Mental
- Celestial Bodies are Out Of This World
- Extras
CQ: Should basic science be taught without the emphasis on memorizing formulas and instead focus almost entirely on the facts, concepts and relationships — a little more Popular Science and Nova than math textbook?
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BUMPER: Alexa Chipman (from Maudelayne and more!)
PROMO: Tuning In To Sci Fi
PROMO: PodCulture
CQ: When we humans develop the ability to completely remodel our solar system — say, into a Dyson sphere — should we do it? Why or why not?
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Failiens
- Flee Your Mind (And The Jest Will Follow)
- Animastication
- Extras
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Show Notes for TWS101: Uberstocked Inventionory
On the show this week:
- Throwing Everything In, Including The Carbon Sink
- I Betcha It’s Nature’s Fault
- Whoosh! Headlines! (ALMOST EXTRA)
- Crime Never Really Happens That Way
- Fly, Ptery, Fly! (EXTRA)
- Marginaliens (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Do we spend too much time just amusing ourselves? Beyond work, should we do something “useful”?
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 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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