Show Notes for TWS056: A Non-Traditional Tradition
On the show this week:
- XTREEMLY interesting
- EXTREEEM science!
- Peru and other space objects
- Adaptation Nation
This week’s Challenge Question: What traditions do you still honour? What traditions have fallen by the wayside or you never honoured, but you’d like to?. 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.
Full links to all stories covered and many more after the jump!
- Theme Song: Caffeine by Grubspoon from The Podsafe Music Network
- XTREEMLY interesting
- Not so much skimming rocks any more, but creating a UFO.. – Ananova: World stone-skimming record smashed
- She’s also planning surgery, fixing her car and installing a web site that day, so let’s get moving! – Ananova: Woman sat exam in wedding dress
- Age is only a number.. and a retirement status. – Ananova: Groom, 24, marries bride, 82
- Money is one approach; a broom might be cheaper. – Ananova: Help for mummys’ boys
- She probably never helped with his homework, and feels guilty. – Ananova: Mum sues teachers over son’s marks
- Next: I will be my own cousin. – Ananova: Woman gives birth to her own grandchildren
- “I’ll call what she’s calling.” – Ananova: Orgasm ringtone shocks court
- If you poke me, do I not get annoyed? Just don’t point out the privates.. – Ananova: Buddha’s banana causes offence
- EXTRA: It’s fine, until you have to clean it. – Ananova: Jeweller makes gold lingerie
- EXTRA: This will lead to a new private game: I’ll play security gaurd, and you play passenger.. – Metro: Bra triggers security alert
- EXTRA: Can I have mine with more garlic? – New Scientist: Chilli-based anaesthetic won’t leave you drooling
- EXTRA: Me Want! – Ananova: Chili sauce evacuates Soho
- EXTRA: Or, just take a bus trip on a busy highway.. – The Sunday Times: Book now for the flight to nowhere
- EXTREEEM science!
- A brief summary of the Ig Nobel prize and some of the winners. – New Scientist: Military wins Ig Nobel peace prize for ‘gay bomb’
- These are too popular; their website may, in fact, be down. – Annals of Improbably Research: Ig Nobel Prizes
- Wikipedia serves Ig Nobel 2007 prize winner list – Wikipedia: 2007 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
- To be fair, Mother Nature has been doing it longer than we have.. – New Scientist: Mother-of-pearl inspires super-strong plastic
- What’s not a knot, and who loops a loop? – New Scientist: Unravelled: The mystery of why strings tangle
- One ring to fool them all, and bring the darkness in them! – New Scientist: Gold rings create first true invisibility cloak
- You can feel the tension, even cut it with a spoon… – PhysOrg: Water forms floating ‘bridge’ when exposed to high voltage
- EXTRA: Soon, they will return to the Earth to rule.. – Russian News and Information Agency / Novosti: Russian silkworms spin first ‘space silk’ in history
- EXTRA: Suddenly Photoshopping things is news? – The New York Times: Proving That Seeing Shouldn’t Always Be Believing
- EXTRA: Screw TV or radio! Broadcast directly into your mind! – MSNBC/LiveScience: User wears headband that sends light into the tissues of the head
- Peru and other space objects
- It’s a cover-up! Damn you, Mother Nature, and your interference! – Living In Peru: Peru’s Geological Institute: Crater Where Meteorite Landed is to Disappear in 2 Months
- Somebody hit these guys with a rolled up copy of the unwritten rules of tourist etiquette, please? – Living in Peru: Meteorite Crater Guarded by Peru’s Police after U.S. Citizens Attempt to Traffic it
- Hmm.. a meteorite strikes, and then “suddenly” a new tribe is discovered? Coincidence? (Probably.) – BBC: ‘Unknown’ Peru Amazon tribe seen
- EXTRA: Why we flight. :)> – Sacbee/New Scientist: Unreal estate
- We’ve got the ultrasound pics from a nearby baby! – ScienceDaily: Earth-like Planet Forming In Nearby Star System, Astronomers Believe
- Remember, alien life negativists: just because something is rare doesn’t mean it’s impossible. – New Scientist: Sun’s ‘twin’ an ideal hunting ground for alien life
- EXTRA: Streaker! (cue Yakity Sax!) – New Scientist: Is a ‘naked singularity’ lurking in our galaxy?
- EXTRA: More of a “huh?” than a “wow!”. – The Telegraph: Mystery cosmic burst has astronomers agog
- EXTRA: – USA Today: Scientists still in the murk about ‘dark energy’
- EXTRA: The Shag Harbour Incident in Shag Harbour, NS. I visited the site once, heard the stories.. Something definitely happened. – The Chronicle Herald: 40 years on and still no answers
- Adaptation Nation
- When it is good to have bugs, dirt and grass in your phone. – New Scientist: Grass-munching bugs could charge rural phones
- A bird’s eye view, filmed in MagnetoScopeVision! – LiveScience: Birds May See Earth’s Magnetic Fields
- Next: they’ll be attached to cars and used as GPS. – BBC: (O) Homing crocodiles defy relocation
- “And now we see the niche of the ‘squatting artist’; clever little things!” – Ananova: Artists’ secret shopping mall pad
- EXTRA: They were looking for a decent coffee shop. – Yahoo!/Reuters: Neanderthals trekked all the way into Siberia
- EXTRA: Apparently, old paintings might actually capture life. Go figure! – The Guardian: How old masters are helping study of global warming
- EXTRA: You should not have heatwaves in the Arctic. ‘nuf said. – The Independent: Record 22C temperatures in Arctic heatwave
- EXTRA: So, we might have a way out of the next one? – Scientific American: In Hot Water: Ice Age Defrosted by Warming Ocean, Not Rise in CO2
- EXTRA: Just eat normally and have self-control; there is no quick-fix, no instant message for health.. – New Scientist: A third of US kids pop dietary pills
- EXTRA: Thankfully, they could only puncture you, not maul you. I feel better. – BBC: Sabretooth’s surprising weak bite
- EXTRA: Spiritual predecessor to the goat? – New Scientist: New duck-billed dinosaur was a ‘chewing machine’
- EXTRA: Reality TV is finally for the birds. – New Scientist: Tool use by shy crows caught on camera
- EXTRA: Someone will need to invent the fold-out frog. – Ananova: Scientists breed see-through frogs
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