Show Notes for TWS060: Vacation Snapshots
On the show this week:
- Calm Your Emotions and Use Half Your Brain to Believe In Science
- real or Unreal, Life is Weird
- I’m sure it seemed like a good idea at the time
This week’s Challenge Question:
Is there a place for faith and religion in the future? Are they eventually going to be phased out? Does removing such irrationalities mean the death of art and imagination?
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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
- Calm Your Emotions and Use Half Your Brain to Believe In Science
- Yeah, but does it come with Holy Syrup? – Metro: (F) Jesus turns up in pancake, with added Mary The eBay auction is almost done, still a bargain at $26.01. Or a bad deal, if you’re hungry.
- Rational? Who said this world was rational? I can’t believe it is rational. 😉 – New Scientist: Does God have a place in a rational world?
- At least he knows up front that she’s a real bitch. *ducks* – CNEWS/AP: Indian man marries dog to ward off curse
- The difference between “occult” and “religion” is fuzzy to me… – Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union: Indian government wants occult exorcised from TV
- EXTRA: Is sexual energy *really* a form of energy? – Fox/AP: Scientists Working to Advance Wilhelm Reich’s Sexual Energy-Cosmic Life Force Work
- EXTRA: Maybe permanent vacations and sleep really are the only way that big solutions can be found.. I’ve often thought that I’m too busy to get anything done. – The UK Telegraph: Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
- One in three think that 2 in three are wrong. – Ananova: One in three think Everest is in Europe
- *sarcasm* You mean fiction can benefit reality? Unthinkable! */sarcasm* – Ananova: Harry Potter transforms school
- No less valid than any other religious school, to me. And perhaps better. – USA Today: At Witch School, spelling has new meaning
- EXTRA: “Close the door! Were you born in a barn?” “No, but I was taught in a cave!” – Ananova: School built in cave
- Now I want them to find the source of telepathy… – New Scientist: Source of human empathy found in brain
- Well, not exactly telepathy, but the next best thing: – New Scientist: Mapping brain could translate thoughts into speech
- EXTRA: Fat Mama didn’t raise no fools! – New Scientist: Curvy mothers have brainier kids
- For this woman, saying “I’ve got have a mind to do XYZ” is literally true. – Ananova: Woman with half a brain
- real or Unreal, Life is Weird
- I swear: it wasn’t *me*! – Cryptomundo: (F) New Cryptid Ape Reports in Florida
- I probably looked left and the ape walked right by me. – News4Jax: (F) Great Ape Spotted In Woods Near Macclenny
- Next: chipmunks underwater, birds underground. – National Geographic News: (F) Fish Lives in Logs, Breathing Air, for Months at a Time
- Although I like the idea of someone seeking out and exploring what may be there, part of me wants to let boogiemen be boogiemen, and doesn’t want harsh candles of reality thrust into the darkness of imagination.. – CFZA: Five Explorers in Giant Snake Adventure
- No wonder we have difficulties finding fossil evidence! They had a Cleaner! – MSNBC/AP: Dinosaur found with vacuum-cleaner mouth
- Proof that children really are alien entities. – BBC: Placenta ‘fools body’s defences’
- Proof that we are all made up of alien entities. – LiveScience: What’s in Your Genes? Ancient Parasites
- EXTRA: More proof for panspermia. – National Geographic News: Alien Life Can Survive Trip to Earth, Space Test Shows
- EXTRA: It is also able to fly, and wears a dashing cape. – New Scientist: Life could survive longer on a super-Earth
- EXTRA: The answer you are looking for is “Yes, please.” – Conde Nast Portolio: So You Want to Live Forever?
- Man/tree hybrid, or just a simulacra? Woodn’t you like to know?! – The UK Telegraph: Tree man ‘who grew roots’ may be cured
- EXTRA: However, you will tend to point North. – Ananova: Magnet Man ‘heals the sick’
- EXTRA: Rest, and dream of better times.. – New Scientist: Sleep hormone may make you forget
- I’m sure it seemed like a good idea at the time
- Not even Cirque du Soleil would try this one, and they throw everything. – Metro: (F) Gun chuck ends in tragedy
- Sometimes you should just apologize and come through the front door. – Local6: (F) Woman Finds Boyfriend Dead In Cat Door
- Sadly, not a candy-coated treasure. – Tampa Bay 10: (F) Ammonia leak closes schools
- Out of the frying pan, into the gullet. Or was he training for the Olympic “Getting eaten by a great big crocadilly” event? – CNEWS/AP: (F) Man fleeing police killed by alligator
- “Blinding underpants” is usually a phrase reserved for supermodels and gag boxers. – Ananova: Man used pants to blindfold croc
- More proof that NASA is worth it. Well, marginally. – The Times of UK: Chocolate inventors were trying for beer
- EXTRA: I’m sure them meant to say “probe into UFOs”, as the UFO probes are *not* what people want more of.. (Seriously, though: glad they are doing this! Well, not the probing…) – Yahoo!/Reuters: Former pilots and officials call for new U.S. UFO probe
- EXTRA: Proof that we’ve probably thrown away more good solutions than we have good problems. – New Scientist: Antique fridge could keep Venus rover cool
- EXTRA: The joke/non-joke here: it’s called Skynet. – BBC: UK military spacecraft launched
- EXTRA: The tiniest foot-soldiers march on Germany. – The UK Telegraph: German town builds anti-millipede wall
- EXTRA: I still like physical cards, but I’d consider recycling them, at least.. – Ananova: School bans Christmas cards
- EXTRA: Next: confiscating glue-sticks and whipped cream. – 9MSN: Man, psychedelic toad arrested
- EXTRA: … and then the sweepers came through and removed Mr. Foolish. – Los Angeles Times: Woman seen scattering ashes at Disneyland
- He had to do it; after all, the tire called his bluff and refused to change on its own. – BBC: Man hurt using gun to change tyre
- EXTRA: Proof that you can steal what you can’t actually have. – Ananova: Teen arrested for virtual theft
- EXTRA: Either Gran’s a fox or the clerk’s an ass; either way, animals! – Ananova: Gran refused wine without ID
- EXTRA: Things I bought on eBay but regretted #1002: – Ananova: Fans buy football club
- EXTRA: I think that many art ideas don’t need to be built to be effective; not sure about this one, although I’d still like to go there. – Ananova: World’s most exclusive hotel?
- EXTRA: Hey, if I can’t have any, neither should they! – Ananova: Sex for the disabled
- EXTRA: And I though checks and punches only came together in hockey.. Surprised to see the sport becoming that popular, however. – Ananova: World chessboxing champ crowned
- Shipped souvenirs
- EXTRA: Da Vinci was just a show-off. Jerk. – CNN/AP: Italian musician uncovers hidden music in Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’
- EXTRA: Someday, our graffiti will be dug up, too. – MSNBC: Ancient Peru temple, mural excavated
- EXTRA: Alien 1: How do you get these human beings to change their minds? Alien 2: You light a fire under them! Alien 1: Ha. Ha. Ha. Alien 2: Ha. Ha. Ha. <- actual transcript – The UK Telegraph: Aliens caused Sicily fires, say officials
- EXTRA: Proving that its just as hard for the big guys to tell between two dots in the night sky as the rest of us. – Metro: Killer asteroid alert was just science fantasy
- EXTRA: Are they calling this one “Comet DOOM”? – Space.com: Incredible Comet Bigger than the Sun
- EXTRA: If a q-bit flips in the forest, does it solve a problem? – New Scientist: Watchful eye keeps quantum computing on the boil
- EXTRA: Bug on lens, supernatural manifestation, trick of the camera or unfortunately after-effect of too much chili? – Local6: Unexplained Blue Cloud Floats, Darts Around Customers At Gas Station
- EXTRA: At what point do “human rights” trump common sense? – CNEWS/AP: Vt. woman wants to keep miniature horse in apartment
- EXTRA: Beware of strangers bearing tea! (Good advice in general, really..) – San Francisco Chronicle: Scam artists with toxic teacups victimizing elderly Chinese in S.F.
- EXTRA: Doomsday countdown is ON! – Yahoo!/Reuters: Russia sect holes up in cave to await end of world
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