Show Notes for TWS052: Golden Nuggets of Ambition In A River of Stupidity

On the show this week:

• Inventions of Future Past;
• Chronic Ironic;
• Wreck Less Ambition;

This week’s Challenge Question: If you were to get a scientific, sci-fi or generally geeky tattoo, what would it be? And, if you like, where would it be?. 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.

• Theme Song: Caffeine by Grubspoon from The Podsafe Music Network
• Inventions of Future Past
  • Here’s my friend Mitch’s Blog about “Chindogo” or the art of Unuseless Inventions
  • Next: a microphone that refuses to record any “bad” words (or opinions). – Metro: Frowning banned by new Sony camera
  • If they ask for payment, you can legitimately give them the finger.. – Ananova: Money at your fingertips
  • I always figured that most “bling” was crap anyway.. – Metro: Panda poo gifts on sale
• Chronic Ironic
  • Do they still serve “puppy chow yung” tho’? 🙂 – The York Dispatch/AP: No more ‘steamed crap’ on Beijing menus
  • You can’t call me Ismailariopheron, but you can call me Al. – Metro: Venzuela to ban stupid names
  • “Stop hitting my hand with your face!” – Metro: Man fined for getting run over
  • And they want to check *my* luggage? – NBC: Nuclear Warheads Mistakenly Flown Across U.S.
  • “I’m sorry, I reget doing ____. Honestly and sincerely, _______” – Metro: Heartfelt apology was someone else’s
  • “Wait, there’s another word here, it was covered up. Oh, no! It’s says to *not* eat the berries!” – Metro: Conservationists save wrong fish
  • Apparently, we should have been sticking ourselves in front of books. – New Scientist: Childhood TV viewing linked to teen attention problems
• Wreck Less Ambition
  • “Solved” is a bit generous here, but it makes the case that clever humans are more capable than we give credit. – AskStudent/YouTube/EXN: Stonehenge Mystery Solved
  • This just to mess with future historians, isn’t it? I wonder if that’s what the Egyptians were thinking, too.. – C|net: Next ‘Great Pyramid’ made in Germany?
  • Score one for the pod people. – New Scientist: Antarctic pod makes way for green research
  • There just animals, folks, edible as any others.. – BBC: Australians cook up wild cat stew
  • Invasion of the Body Matchers.. – University of Rochester: One Species’ Genome Discovered Inside Another’s
  • EXTRA: Maybe they’re just being forcibly evolved? – CNN Money/Fortune: Mysterious bee disappearance linked to virus
  • EXTRA: It’s not how poweful you are, it’s your friends that make the difference.. – New Scientist: Why superheroes always win
  • When will we worship people for the beauty of their brains, not their butts and boobs? – Ananova: Monument to the ugly
  • They just have to remember that if they get extra homework, they paid for it. – Ananova: Pupils set up own school
  • Make your commitment to ontological semantic scarification today! – Metro: Sci-ink-tific tatoos all the rage
• Extras: Death, Life and what’s between
  • EXTRA: Extrasensory curriculum activities – The Scotsman: Spirited students given course on supernatural
  • EXTRA: The goat died so you don’t have to. – BBC: Goats sacrificed to fix Nepal jet
  • EXTRA: If they cooked it and ate it, no one would be bothered with this “sacrifice”. – Metro: World’s heaviest pig sacrificed
  • EXTRA: Dead people on parade! – MSNBC/AP: Mummy of Incan girl displayed in Argentina
  • EXTRA: It’s a collection that would only be loved by someone with a leg fetish *and* an amputee fetish.. – Dorset Echo: Mike’s legacy under the floor!
  • EXTRA: Mummy? Mummy? Can you hear me, mummy? – Metro: Aunt mummy found in woman’s flat
  • EXTRA: It’s the new way to go — by not going. – Metro: Decade of fridge for dead mum
  • EXTRA: Finally! We can make cat-people! Woooohoooo! – Yahoo!/Reuters: Britain approves human-animal embryo research
  • EXTRA: Most people don’t want to be reunited with thir ex. – Metro: Transplant patient reunited with old heart
  • EXTRA: I won’t say bionic limbs; I don’t want to put my foot in it. – New Scientist: Muscular films promise bodyparts and biomachines
  • EXTRA: Just don’t get angry and start thinking “crap! crap! crap!”. – New Scientist: Thinking of words can guide your wheelchair
  • EXTRA: Does this mean that there will be perky, chilly fake boobs that warm to the touch? – New Scientist: Warm ice could make implants more biocompatible
• More stuff I should have covered
  • EXTRA: Another dog with mange? – msnbc/AP: Monster or dog? ‘Goatsucker’ tale debated
  • EXTRA: Never let the facts get in the way of a good story! Unless, that is, we’re looking for facts.. – Star-Telegram: Even scientific tests might not quell ‘chupacabra’ mania
  • EXTRA: When the tables are turned, we should take the higher road; of course, we don’t. – CBC/CP/AP: Lifeguard at Coney Island beach rescues small shark from nasty swimmers

Podcast: Play in new window | Download