NOTE: This is the full version of the show, which contains at least 20 minutes that didn’t make it on the radio! 
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- No Closure for Disclosure
- Sensory Deception
- If You Build It
- Extras
PROMO: Walk The Fire Volume 2: Kickstarter – A shared-world SF anthology! Go listen to the entire first volume, then support the second being made!
PROMO: Nutty Bites – A fun podcast filled with awesome — including the ever-popular Nutty Debates! Nutty tells me there is going to be a live debate at Balticon this year, as well!
CQ: Name a single fiction — whether a novel, a TV series, a movie, a play, whatever — which has made a profound change and inspiration in your life — and tell us why it should inspire others.
Full list of 36 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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TWS213: Shameless, Blameless and Lameness
CQ: Having recently read “The Wealthy Barber”, and noting its lamentations about basic financial education, I started to think about other areas which could use some basic education. For example, where is the equivalent book for health and diet issues (“The Healthy Barber”)? What areas of basic education do we either do poorly or not at all?
Voting has begun for the 2012 CHSR Barry Awards! While it would be appreciated if you voted for me, I’d really just like you to vote for *someone*. Support campus/community radio!
Bumper: Mainframe from Geek Out With Mainframe (gowmainframe.blogspot.com)
Promo: Kakophonos Internet Radio (kakophonos.com)
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- All Creatures (Fake and Small)
- Say It Ain’t So
- Antigovernmentarianism
- Extras
Full list of 61 articles after the jump!
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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
Full list of 50 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?
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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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Show Notes for TWS128: Mind, Body & Snack
On the show this week:
- Brothers In Harms
- When Your Mind Is Not On Sex
- Broken Rules Will One Day Fly (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
When the aliens come down, bent on destorying humanity, and they turn to you to represent humanity well… What joke will you tell?
Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to
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(I originally asked this question for George Hrab’s live version of The Geologic Podcast. Listen to his show for comedy, music, stories and a heapin’ helpin’ of skepticism. Not for everyone, but definitely for someone. 
Win some original artwork for subscribing or getting others to subscribe! My good friend Nuchtchas is running a little contest: if you started listening to TWS recently, or you turned someone else to listening to TWS, Tweet @nuchtchas or send her an email. Go to nimlas.org/blog and click on “Contest” for more details.
Oh, and tell her she’s awesome for doing this, would ya?
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Show Notes for TWS121: Life, Death and the Shocks In Between
On the show this week:
- “Let There Be Life!” said God to the Scientists
- Shocking Uses of Technology
- Death and Dangerous Apes
- Afterlife (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Will we eliminate death as a certain, inevitable faite for mankind? Will it be possible for a human to live forever? Is that good — or bad?
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 or call in at 1-206-203-2292.
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Show Notes for TWS050: Ask Me No Questions, I’ll Tell You No Truths
- This must be some new meaning of “impossible” I’m not aware of..
- Fingers & toes
- Communicable Ill-Ease
- Miscellaneous Extras
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