TWS369: I Live Here But My Home Is Space

On December 1, 2016, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

tws369-logoOn the show this week:

  • Packin’ My Space Bags
  • Things We Have Done
  • All In Your Head

CQ: Once we have accepted robots as thinking beings, will we ever accept them as rulers and bosses?

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TWS362: Trumpet Return

On July 8, 2016, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS362 logoOn the show this week:

  • Space Rocks
  • It Thinks It Can’t
  • Still, Life
  • Mind interfering with Matter
  • There Are No Words

CQ: Which will come first: Homo Sapiens Roboticus, in which symbiotic AI are merged with human beings, or Roboticus Sapiens, in which free-will robots exist on their own right? Why?

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TWS311: Significant Volumes of Nothing

On April 9, 2015, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS311 logoOn the show this week:

  • Front Page
  • Space Intentionally Not Left Blank
  • Unscenery
  • Extras

CQ: If you could fool the entire world into doing something good, what would it be about?

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TWS243: Reproduced in small plastic bricks

On March 9, 2013, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

TWS243 logoOn the show this week:

  • In Between
  • Front Page
  • Life
  • Death

CQ: Is a world in which “equal pay for equal work” is a _universal_, world-wide right a possibility or a pipe-dream?

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TWS154: Crisis At Infinite (self-) Worths

On May 1, 2010, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

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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TWS129: Space Between Your Ears Is The Final Frontier

On June 13, 2009, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

Show Notes for TWS129: Space Between Your Ears Is The Final Frontier

On the show this week:

  • Unbelieve you me, it’s the truth!
  • Hard-hitting Science — On the Edge!
  • Shredded Wheat and Chaff (EXTRA)

This week’s Challenge Question:
In celebration of JC Hutchins’ recent book release (Personal Effects: Dark Art) — which is a delightfully physical book with physical artifacts — here is the digital question: games, gatherings, music, news, books, bills, phone books, mail, movies, television, photographs: we are increasingly living in a non-physical world. What will the ultimate expression of this be? Or will we rebel, and return to physical things because they are “real”?
Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to
weirdshow[[at]]gmail.com, leave a comment or record your message via the
MobaTalk client on the right hand side of The WEIRD Show, follow encaf1 on Twitter or call in at 1-206-203-2292.

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Oh, and tell her she’s awesome for doing this, would ya?

  • Promo: The House Of Grey — A story of a typical teenaged life: going to high school (albeit the most exclusive high school in the world), living life (albeit with scars both physical and emotional), dealing with growing up (albeit with no memory of who you are except frightening visions of a power you don’t understand), meeting girls (albeit some of the most beautiful and mysterious girls on the planet) and doing homework (albeit some of it is magical training). A story revealing layers both mundane and supernatural in the life of Monson Grey, sole survivor of the attack on Barity Bridge.
  • Promo: Guardians — An experiment in urban fantasy from Kimi Alexandre, host of Tale Chasing. This has just started, and promises to be quite a ride!

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TWS078: Humanufacturing the Universe

On March 29, 2008, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

Show Notes for TWS078: Humanufacturing the Universe

On the show this week:

  • WE GOTTA GET OFF THIS ROCK!
  • Humanufacturing the World

This week’s Challenge Question:
Is domesticating animals keeping them down – or lifting them up? Will we “uplift” any other animals – through affection, genetics, robotics, cybernetics, etc? Or what *should* we uplift and for what purpose?
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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TWS072: The Past Future is NOW!

On February 9, 2008, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

Show Notes for TWS072: The Past Future is NOW!

On the show this week:

  • SCIFI IS NOW!
  • Life will leave us behind, if we don’t do it first.
  • Dumbness
  • The Indeterminate Past (EXTRAS)

This week’s Challenge Question:
What is a current technology or way of doing things that we should we should revert to an older way of doing things?
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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