Show Notes for TWS049: To Life!
Life is one of the strangest, most unusual things we will ever encounter, create, or have. Whether it be brains, emotions, physical life or robotic life, just when you think you’ve got it figured out, it changes..
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- Theme Song: Hyper Lounge by Scott Helm from The Podsafe Music Network
- Opening quote from The Big Lebowski.
- How Does That Make You Feel?
- I wonder if the coping protein comes from steak… – New Scientist: Brain protein might combat feelings of despair
- I dub thee, “The Date Maker!” – New Scientist: Hormone spray could banish shyness
- Finally, something we can truly call our own.. dammit. – New Scientist: Spite is a uniquely human emotion
- He’s gone CRAZY! CRAZY… with the HEAT! – Ananova: Heat drives student to furniture-throwing
- This trend all started with SCTV.. – Metro: Computer chuck man avoids punishment, gets sympathy
- With all the things that are bad in the universe, parents are concerned that this is what will upset their kids? – PR Newswire: Highmark Caring Place Grief Counseling Expert Available to Speak to Media Regarding Harry Potter
- Sound Medley #1: Bugs Bunny, Dirty Harry, Blade Runner, Big Trouble in Little China, Army of Darkness, Monty Python (and the interstitial sound from Law and Order comes up soon, too).
- Crime and Punishment
- Obviously, this is the fault of [fill in new-fangled technology, philosophy, music, art or other new trend that you are afraid of here]. – New Scientist: (O) Listening to MP3s in a storm could blow your mind
- God’s IM? – CBS4: Religious Book Seller Struck By Lightning
- He didn’t want all the good life, just a taste.. – Guardian Unlimited: Potential robber disarmed by taste of a fine bordeaux
- This is Just Dumb ™(c). – Metro: Prisoners attempt to escape using copyright
- Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Nature is noisy! – Ananova: Garden birds too loud says council
- When was the last time nudity killed somebody? Is it really that bad? – Metro: Nude town passes anti-nude law
- Back in the god business! Woo! – BBC: Nepalese ‘goddess’ is reinstated
- Sound Medley #2: The Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters, X-Files, Black Adder, Toy Story, Terminator, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean – The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Life, but not as we know it.
- Slick! Another reason to invade foreign countries! :p – New Scientist: Creeping oil might propel synthetic life
- Stories like this inspire profound thoughts, like “The universe is filled with all examles, given enough time and space.” Or: “Is this a creature that has both bacon -and- eggs in one?” – The Independant: Rediscovered: Attenborough’s ‘extinct’ egg-laying mammal
- Next: man-eating bunnies! – The Guardian: Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest
- It’s like lice turned to 11. – Metro: Man surprised by face bug infestation
- Quote Medley #3: Kids in the Hall, Indiana Jones, Bugs Bunny, Ren and Stimpy
- The End… for now
- Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! One year TWS anniversary! Woo! : World Jump Day HQ
- Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! World records are odd.. – Ananova: Skipping to a world record
- A one-man audience. – Ananova: Man claps as loud as helicopter din
- Takin’ out the trash… *space* trash! – New Scientist: Space station crew to dump trash overboard
- Someday, “artic wind” will refer to a warm breeze.. – New Scientist: Melting glaciers will dominate sea-level rise
- Big Bad Bessy with her M-E-A-T! – New Scientist: Meat is murder on the environment
- Trimmings
- EXTRA: This is not nuts! – Stone Pages/Archeo News/CBS13: Squirrels unearth ancient artifact in California
- EXTRA: Whew! Now things will be clear! – Scoop/Comedia Company: UFO Sighting Report Process Formalised
- EXTRA: Finally, space suits that look like the movies. Took them long enough! – New Scientist: Future spacesuits to act like a second skin
- EXTRA, FOLLOWUP: Apparently, I was right: he will have had already presently found future funding, eventually, some time ago.. – MSNBC: Backward research goes forward
- EXTRA: So remote controls and couches are the next evolutionary (non-)step, too. – New Scientist: Walking on two feet was an energy-saving step
- EXTRA: Is this the crap that keep turning up? – Yahoo!/AP: Old Ventura privies yield artifacts
- EXTRA: I wonder if they publish a schedule? – Ananova: The hills are live with the Sound of Music – 24/7
- EXTRA: Death is a growth industry. – Ananova: Germany to launch Death Channel
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