Show Notes for TWS058: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love The F-Bomb

As the 40th anniversary of the most famous sasquatch film ever (the Patterson/Gimlin film), we have the following line up on the show this week:

• All We Need Is Some Piss and Understanding (Crap!)
• Eat, Sleep, Get a Job, Smell, Cry: Things I Learned To Do From Animals
• Braaaainsss….

This week’s Challenge Question:
What is your best advice for the coming Zombie uprising?
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Full links to all stories covered and many more after the jump!

• Theme Song: Caffeine by Grubspoon from The Podsafe Music Network
• All We Need Is Some Piss and Understanding (Crap!)
  • Politicians need to be social? Who knew?!? – New Scientist: Social networking may determine political success
  • Protecting a broken system doesn’t fix it. – New Scientist: Quantum cryptography to protect Swiss election
  • If you can’t shoot crap at the toilet, what can you do? – Ananova: Woman charged with swearing at toilet
  • 7-letter word, starts with F: “what society doesn’t like you to spread”. Answer: F R E E D O M. Or F***ing. – Ananova: Swearing is ****ing good for us
  • Whew! At least he didn’t call him a weathercock! – Metro: Quebec bans ‘weathervane’ insult
  • Next: fined for walking on the sidewalk. – Ananova: Fined for putting rubbish in bin
  • Spread your message, not your garbage. – Metro: Pastor makes mess-up in a bottle
  • Hmm.. singers of “Rasputin” praise for peace in Russia? Oops. – Ananova: Boney M peace bid
  • Barry White is no longer the music for chicks; Beethoven makes them want to be laid. – Ananova: Hens respond to classics
• Eat, Sleep, Get a Job, Smell, Cry: Things I Learned To Do From Animals
  • Yeah, but does it snore? – New Scientist: Possum breaks record with year-long snooze
  • …. only if you can smoosh them reaaaal thin. – MSNBC/AP: Can frog feet lead to better, stickier tape?
  • No one wants to admit that we are cousins. – Ars Technica: Human sequences cropping up in Neanderthal genome
  • EXTRA: Art is in the eye of the beholder, and someone has old modern eyes.. – The Telegraph: ‘Oldest’ wall painting looks like modern art
  • EXTRA: Next: they were actually great playwrights; Shakespeare suspected as Neanderthal front. – MSNBC/LiveScience: Chatty cavemen? Me Neanderthal, talk good
  • Unlike humans, ants don’t retire — they burn out, not fade away! – New Scientist: Ants have a sense of their own mortality
  • The Law of Conservation of Sleep In The Universe: why possums sleep and mankind can’t sleep with the fishes. – Yahoo!/Reuters: If it’s any consolation, fish get insomnia too
  • Your enemies stink; your friends just smell bad. – New Scientist: Elephants can sniff out human friends from foe
  • Oh, cry me a river.. Or maybe they just saw An Inconvenient Truth? – National Geographic: Crocodiles Really Shed Tears While Eating, Study Says
• Braaaainsss….
  • *poink!* There! That’s what makes zombies want brains! – New Scientist: Brain ‘hunger pathways’ pinpointed
• Variety Meats
  • EXTRA: Arrr! – WWAY3NewsChannel: Blackbeard’s cannon surfaces
  • EXTRA: We were what we ate — and grew. – Axcess News: Grapevines and rice yield clues on early agriculture and civilizations
  • EXTRA: Politics and law subject to personal vendetta? *Shocking!* – MSNBC/AP: Long-lost text lifts cloud from Knights Templar
  • EXTRA: Go West, Young Alien! – The Winnepeg Sun: Strange sky sights pick up
  • EXTRA: Sometimes referred to as a “hook-shaped piece of metal”.. Did Peter Pan finally defeat his enemy? – The Delaware Daily Times/The News Journal: DELAWARE: Aviation officials puzzled about so-called UFO that slammed vehicle
  • EXTRA: Didn’t this just happen a few months ago? Someone throwing rocks at the Aussies again.. – All Headline News: Meteor Seen In The Skies Of Australia
  • EXTRA: Suddenly, exploring the galaxy doesn’t sound like such a dumb idea, does it? – ScienceDaily: Not Just Science Fiction: ‘Electromagnetic Wormhole’ Possible, Say Mathematicians
  • EXTRA: An now, we lay the tracks… – USA Today: Risky space tourism gets a boost from a hands-off FAA
  • EXTRA: … and get shafted by the funding bodies. CRAAAAAP! – New Scientist: NASA cuts funding to private spaceship developer
  • EXTRA: I just can’t see it working.. “Is that something offensive on your arm?” “What? No.. that’s a mole!” – Wired: Tattoos for the Blind
  • EXTRA: Like the Nemesis itself, this theory comes through every once and a while to stir things up.. – The Paranormal Report: Nemesis: Does another star orbit our sun
  • EXTRA: Oh, phew! At least *someone* is thinking about it.. – The Register: MIT boffins plan for asteroidal doom
  • EXTRA: Somebody’s been reading too many old Analog magazines… Cool! – New Scientist: Forget rockets — go to Mars in a cosmic fruit bowl
  • EXTRA: Case of spontaneous combustion? Hot! – Santa Cruz Sentinel: Man on fire sparks Capitola police investigation
  • EXTRA: Not yet “crap in your tank” to drive, but closer.. – News.com.au/AFP: Poo can help save the planet
  • EXTRA: A blast from the past: the great grandfather of the electric car was killed too. – Frank Warren’s Blog: Electric Automobile Travels Nearly 200 Miles on One Charge!
  • EXTRA: They used to joke about the iPod this small; who’s laughing now? (I am.) – BBC: ‘World’s smallest radio’ unveiled
  • EXTRA: Immortality is a subject that just won’t die. – New Scientist: Chromosome caps may explain cell immortality
  • EXTRA: What does Hogwarts have to do with Hindu celebrations? – BBC: Hindu group wins Harry Potter row
  • EXTRA: Sometimes, you just gotta celebrate *something*. – Russia IC: Tunguska Party-Time in Siberia in 2008
  • EXTRA: The leprechaun may have promised him gold for his pants, too. – WLWT: Police: Pantless Man Claims Leprechaun Opened Door
  • EXTRA: First-Person Screener. As long as they don’t follow Half-Life. I do want to be able to sneak up to within 20 feet of them if my aggro radius is controlled, however. – New Scientist: Game software could boost airport security
  • EXTRA: Like quantum computing, only… not. At all. – New Scientist: You too can do particle physics
  • EXTRA: Dante Dante Revolution. – Ananova: Disco inferno
  • EXTRA: I call Scissors. – cnews/The Toronto Sun: Rock Paper Scissors crowns a queen as its champ
  • EXTRA: No, this isn’t a hospital-themed bar, and those *aren’t* caesers in tubes.. – Yahoo!/Reuters: Forget the bloody mary, just give me the blood
  • EXTRA: “In the name of The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost, and the King.” – Yahoo!/Reuters: Priest has no problem worshipping God and Elvis
  • EXTRA: Ouiji Board response: “Can you hear me know?” – News.com.au/AFP: Bury me naked, with my mobile phone
  • EXTRA: Someone get to the bottom of this! – News.com.au: Town in grip of undies shortage

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