Show Notes for TWS061: Eat, Compute and Be Hairy
On the show this week:
- It’s Enough To Put You Off Your Long Pork
- Critters ‘n’ Machines
- LOL
- EXTRA: Space Filler
- EXTRA: Nothing Fits Here
This week’s Challenge Question:
Is there such a thing as a Bigfoot, a Yeti, a Skunk Ape, a Wildman? No, really — not just mistaken identity or falsehood, the real thing!?
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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
- It’s Enough To Put You Off Your Long Pork
- Yeah, but it’s still boring! – The UK Journal: It’s the country’s coolest dessert
- It’s not easy, eating greens.. – The Scotsman: Cannibal turns vegetarian after joining Green group
- Does that mean it’s fresher? – Ananova: Diner hooked on fish
- Travel the world — and drink it! – Ananova: Best job in the world?
- A statue of a fine, upstanding citizen… sorta. – Ananova: Chocolate willy causes offence
- Italians are such sensitive people.. Although pink houses are pretty offensive. – Ananova: Pensioner faces jail over pink house
- EXTRA: The elephants are on the run to avoid the runs? – Yahoo!/AP: World’s hottest chili to repel elephants
- EXTRA: Thank god? Or is this one of those positive spins on the apocalyptic future of the environment? – ScienceDaily: ‘Noah’s Flood’ Kick-started European Farming?
- Critters ‘n’ Machines
- I make this mistake *all* the time; just the other day, I could have sword I saw a dragon, but it turned out to be a dead sparrow.. – The Times-Union: Mystery creature in Baker County not monkey or Bigfoot – likely just a squirrel
- Loren Coleman doesn’t seem convinced; mostly because the facts don’t add up. – Cryptomundo: Official Reportedly Explains Away “Orangutan”
- Another report on what people don’t know. – Baker County Press: Just what’s loose out there in the woods? The world waits…
- Fine, leave Florida behind; meanwhile, in China.. – China.org.cn: Wild men spotted again in Shennongjia
- As if it wasn’t hard enough to find critters.. – Cryptomundo: Venezuela’s Invasion of Guyana Threatens CFZ Trek
- Don’t hate him ’cause he’s ugly! At least he’s local! – WCSH6 NBC: Lake Monster Legend Lives On In Northern Maine
- EXTRA: Sounds like a Guinness worker: “a record shark”. – Ananova: Record shark caught off Cornwall
- I saw this movie when I was a kid. It still creeps me out. – Yahoo!/AP: Scientists find fossil of enormous bug
- EXTRA: And when they get older, will the cats have rabbits? (for dinner?) – Ananova: Rabbit has kittens
- EXTRA: Agent 009 has successfully breached the purrimeter.. – Ananova: Royal cat burglar
- EXTRA: Something about this story stinks like a wet dog.. – Ananova: Perfume for dogs
- EXTRA: It’s a lot like having a “Osama Day” in New York.. Good luck with that. – Yahoo!/Reuters: Italy’s “black cat day” aims to halt killings
- EXTRA: I thought such things were *supposed* to be “off the map”? – Metro: Map lets you go away with the fairies
- LOL
- Error in gene 100: Abort, Retry, Evolve? – New Scientist: Human skin ‘reprogrammed’ to form stem cells
- As one robot remarked: “Life!? Don’t talk to me about Life!” – New Scientist: Computer programs can help make sense of life
- Turns out, English synaesthetes are not computers. – New Scientist: Why I and O are dull for synaesthetes
- EXTRA: The robot takeover is sure to follow. – BBC: Robot ‘pied piper’ leads roaches
- Killing us with chuckles? – New Scientist: Evolution of humour could make computers laugh
- EXTRA: Laughter is the best anaesthetic. – Ananova: Dentist’s comedy clips
- EXTRA: – Yahoo!/Reuters: Researchers find mirror fools phantom limb pain
- EXTRA: – New Scientist: Babies can spot the good, the bad, and the ugly
- EXTRA:Incarceration is sure to follow. – New Scientist: Type 1 diabetes genes identified
- EXTRA: Longer. Fitter. Happier. – New Scientist: ‘Happy’ worms live longer on antidepressants
- EXTRA: Is it surprising that the road over millions of years isn’t straight, but weaves, dips, bends, branches, merges, … – Press-Telegram/Chicago Tribune: Fossil find changes evolutionary beliefs
- EXTRA: Space Filler
- EXTRA: The sober tone of this article makes me feel happy; UFO sightings are no longer automatically a joke. – The Pilot: Teens Report Spotting UFO
- EXTRA: “Yup, its the moon… can we go home now?” – New Scientist: Chinese lunar orbiter to begin observations
- EXTRA: “No, I don’t want to *walk* home!” – New Scientist: China plans first spacewalk
- EXTRA: Wait, is it the 50s again? – New Scientist: Russia to build new cosmodrome on home soil
- EXTRA: So, we need to go out there and study *them*, right? – New Scientist: Moons like Earth’s are few and far between
- EXTRA: Whoops… is that dirt on our glasses, or a speck the size of the universe? – Wired: Big Bang or Big Goof? Astronomer Challenges ‘Seeds’ Proof
- EXTRA: Whoops… I swear, I was just looking! – New Scientist: Has observing the universe hastened its end?
- EXTRA: Nothing Fits Here
- EXTRA: Hnh… apparently, there really *was* a wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus.. So much for other theologies! – BBC: ‘Mythical Roman cave’ unearthed
- EXTRA: I think mine is “interesting”… – Ananova: ‘Nincompoop’ tops poll
- EXTRA: Criminals always get it in the end.. – Ananova: Criminal caught by bum recognition
- EXTRA: These kind of things always give me a sinking feeling… – Ananova: China to house shipwreck in underwater museum
- EXTRA: Proof that blondes are harmful to society.. tee-hee! – Ananova: Blondes drive men stupid
- EXTRA: Did he use a mile-high club? – Ananova: High flying thief caught
- EXTRA: Who feels dumber: the thief or the person carrying a dead animal? – Ananova: Thieves steal dead pet
- EXTRA: Cause or symptom? Does it matter? – New Scientist: War has historic links to global climate change
- EXTRA: Either it’s real, or he’s nuts; either way, probably a good move to step down. – 4029tv: Mayor Resigns, Claims Abduction By Satan Worshippers
- EXTRA: Sounds like a fine place to work, although my boxers might be a bit revealing.. – Ananova: Firms asks women to work in their undies
- EXTRA: Repeat after me: test data should be *obviously* and *unmistakeably* fake.. – ABC 7News: Company: Woman Used Drugs With Cartoon Characters
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