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?
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Science Friction
- Mistaken Hide Entity
- Extras
CQ: What impact, if any, would you think that the confirmed discovery of Bigfoot, alien beings or perpetual motion devices have on everyday life?
Full list of 29 articles after the jump!
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On 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?
Full list of 35 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Back Page
- No Intelligent Life Found Here
- That’s Enter Main Tent!
- Extras
CQ: It used to be that money and distance were the limiting factors for entertainment. Now, it seems like time is the prime concern. What do you use to filter and select the entertainment you consume, now that the world is at your doorstep for cheap?
Full list of 45 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Monstrous, Inc.
- Floss of Truth
- Extras
CQ: Are we living in a decadent age, with things a bit too easy, right on the edge of societal collapse? Or is this just the worry of those adjusting still to a modern world?
Full list of 46 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- BigNewsFoot
- Hearts and Minds
- Future Artificial Intelligence Life (FAIL)
- Extras
CQ: Should we avoid tragedy and large impacting events at all costs, or should we accept the changing nature of the universe, and let some things be beyond our control?
Sadly, we bid goodbye to the voicemail this month. It wasn’t called in a while, and had really been just me calling it every month. I may get another one, but for now, we’ll rely on other methods (like email).
Full list of 42 articles after the jump!
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TWS209: And lo! The trumpets call!
CQ: Is there still any real point to us all working roughly the same workday from 9 to 5, or should we actively seek to change the world to 3 standardized 8-hour shifts, work evenly divided between them?
On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- Spacious Accommodations
- Like A Good Idea (At The Time)
- Extras
Promos:
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TWS204: Shorter Grow The Days, Longer Grow The Hours
CQ: How do you restore your faith in humanity? What gives you hope, when the cynicism gets thick?
Bumper: Scott Sigler
Promo: Garaaga’s Children
Promo: Podiobooks.com
Promo: Technorama
On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- There
- Out There
- Really Out There
- Christmas
- Extras
Full list of 44 articles after the jump!
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TWS166: Replacing Knowledge With Compatible Reason
CQ: With the growth and common access to global communication technology, and the recognition that the relationships you make with them are often as valuable as those with local people, how do you envision the future society to be connected — or is this all just a fad?
Bumper: Mer, of Braindouche!
Promo: Technorama
Promo: Braindouche!
On the show this week:
- Wacky Front Page!
- Wacky Nature!
- Wacky Science!
- Wacky People!
- Wacky Extras!
Full list of 69 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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