The much-awaited show notes are here! (Sheesh!)

Show Notes for TWS076: It’s Simply Criminal

On the show this week:

• Criminal Kingdom Pt 1: You filty animals!
• Criminal Kingdom Pt 2: The domain of mankind
• Space is the Place (to survive the apocalypse)

This week’s Challenge Question:
The Moon, Mars or something Else? Where should the next manned space mission be?
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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
• Responses
  • Thanks to: Jen, Arkle, Lyndsey, Mike and Mr. Gadgets
• Criminal Kingdom Pt 1: You filty animals!
  • Lunch and dinner? – WIS10: Dead cow, coyote found near site of “Lizard Man” mystery
  • Up to the point where they might suggest “gay Elvis”, the guy is with them. – Tuscaloosa News: Lizard Man sighted again (but Elvis is still dead)
  • Backgrounder with photos of the 1988 articles. – Cryptomundo: Lizard Man of South Carolina
  • EXTRA: For some people, thinking of slugs immediately makes them think of brains.. Issues, much? – BBC: ‘Sea slug’ inspires brain implant
  • “Rescued” or something more sinister? (Probably just rescued..) – BBC: NZ dolphin rescues beached whales
  • At first I thought: “But what do dolphins get depressed about?” – LiveScience: Dolphin Therapy Smells Fishy
  • Sheep: built ram tough! – Ananova: Super sheep outran police
  • EXTRA: Sometimes, “big” is too small a word. – Cryptomundo: Giant Salamanders Are Big
  • I know they say there is strength in numbers… but this is not what they meant. – New Scientist: Creature clones itself to avoid becoming fish food
  • He got caught by a legal claws. – Ananova: Bear convicted of theft
  • Never share a stage with an animal or a child. Or Robin Williams. – Ananova: Stage dog stole limelight
  • The will be life in outer space — even if we have to put it there ourselves! – New Scientist: Hardy Earth bacteria can grow in lunar soil
  • I do believe this is Winnie The Pooh’s dream house. – Metro: Bees cause a sticky problem at house
• Criminal Kingdom Pt 2: The domain of mankind
  • EXTRA: Still think you have nothing to hide? – BBC: Camera ‘looks’ through clothing
  • EXTRA: Finally, truth in vegetables! – The Telegraph: Asparagus mystic offers tips for the future
  • EXTRA: Obviously, the town did something really bad. – The Star Phoenix/National Post: Ghost rider expected to arrive in Ohio town
  • EXTRA: If you tower over the world, you find it hard to look up in envy. – New Scientist: Your height dictates how jealousy strikes
  • EXTRA: A Big Mac Attack? – Ananova: Fast food attack on go slow doctor
  • The real story is that two wrongs make a right: committing adultery, then lying about it = preserving honour. – BBC: Licence to lie for Italian women
  • EXTRA: Not exactly an invisi-suit, but close enough to fool the watchers! – Wired: CCTV Busting Infra-Red Headset Makes You Invisible
  • EXTRA: “But officer, I wasn’t talking on the phone — I was just warming my ears!” I can’t make this stuff up.. – Ananova: Excuse of the year?
  • Defeated by modern technology… like air conditioners… – Ananova: Robbers reduced to tears
  • He should’ve stolen a watch first. – Metro: Dumb bank robber turns up too late
  • First rule of good burglary: research your victim. Second rule: never get into a sword fight. – Ananova: A fence too far for burglar
  • EXTRA: Some people have to pay for this kind of service… – Ananova: Forgotten woman had to drink own urine
  • EXTRA: You just can’t trust little ol’ ladies these days.. – Ananova: Gran’s handbag full of grenades
  • “Sleep. NOW.” (Obscure movie quote of the decade.) – Ananova: Boys, 4, cuffed for refusing nap
  • It was the bunny’s fault all along, I’m sure. – Metro: Bunny held for $100 dollar ransom
  • More air conditioner madness.. – Metro: Deer wee in air con not a good idea
  • I can understand a day or two… and some people are scary.. but after no more than a week would I find this tolerable. Did they have another bathroom? – The Chicago Tribune: Sheriff Recommends Charge in Toilet Case
  • I’m sure it was something his attorney put him up to. – Metro: Mafia man is too fat for prison
  • Step #10048 in “How to live a long life”: don’t have paranoid kids. – Ananova: Couple’s homecoming surprise
  • EXTRA: When you find a problem that is insurmountable, just redefine the problem. (Classic scientist or programmer trick.) – Ananova: Drama over smoking ban
  • EXTRA: Hypocracy is next to democracy. – Metro: PM breaks own smoking law
  • EXTRA: “Did you know that the dead have some of the best rates for new car loans?” – BBC: Car letter sent to ‘passed away’
  • EXTRA: What goes around, comes around.. and runs you over. – The Boston Channel: Good Samaritan Hit, Killed By Own Vehicle
  • The freakiest part is the sideway shuffle. I predict that it will hit the club scene this summer. – The Sun: ‘Creepy gnome’ terrorises town
  • EXTRA: As long as the bones aren’t liquified, what the problem? Bone bombs? – Yahoo!/AP: Woman tries to bring skeleton on plane
  • EXTRA: As long as it wasn’t in the kitchen, going into the grinder.. – ABC7: Woman Found With Dead Dog At Wendy’s
  • EXTRA: Smoking is bad for you. – Red Orbit: Air Pollution Hinders Brain Processing
  • EXTRA: No, *really*: smoking is *bad* for you! – New Scientist: Brain scans reveal smokers’ clouded judgment
  • Did they just add the driving rules a little while ago? – Yahoo!/AP: Vatican updates its thou-shalt-not list
• Space is the Place (to survive the apocalypse)
  • Sure, it might *look* like a “little red Swedish house”, but can we make it a biodome inside? – Ananova: Backing for house on moon
  • The uviverse wants to kill us. – Cosmos: (O) Binary ‘deathstar’ has Earth in its sights
  • The universe *really* wants to kill us. – New Scientist: Black holes could bump asteroids our way
  • The new spaceflights will likely be hampered either by the floating billboards or held back by capitalist baggage.. – ScienceDaily: First Advertisement To Be Broadcast Into Space
  • ET too dumb to phone home? – PhysOrg: E.T. not likely to have human-like intelligence: Astronomer
  • EXTRA: By its very existence, this meteor has caused many questions. – BBC: Peru meteorite may rewrite rules
  • Next to the red house, there is a sign: “In case of apocalypse, break glass”. – The Telegraph: Plans for ‘doomsday ark’ on the moon
  • Did Ikea take over space construction? Oh, wait.. it’s CANADIAN, eh! – Yahoo!/AP: Astronauts will assemble robot in space
  • I’m glad to hear that things are still growing on the ISS. Sometimes, I wonder.. – PhysOrg: Endeavour Astronauts Attach Japanese Module to Station
  • EXTRA: Ancient meteors struck the earth — at least now when we say that for sure. – AlaskaReport: The mystery of mammoth tusks with iron fillings
  • EXTRA: Don’t let creatures get too comfortable, or they will eat your lunch and wreck your home. – New Scientist: Invasive species create dangerous ‘genetic hotspots’
  • Another case of “blame the elephant for farting” or a really serious concern? – New Scientist: China emissions to swamp Kyoto reductions by 2010
  • EXTRA: Dagnabit! Does the world want to threaten my morning toast *that* much? – New Scientist: Killer wheat fungus threatens starvation for millions
• Virtually Show Material (EXTRAS)
  • EXTRA: “Who lives in a trove deep under the sea? NEAN DERTHAL!” – The Independent: Neanderthal treasure trove ‘at bottom of sea’
  • EXTRA: When the real and the virtual blend together, really interesting things become possible. – ScienceDaily: Real And Virtual Pendulums Swing As One In Mixed Reality State
  • EXTRA: Is there such a shortage of people that we need this? – New Scientist: Robotic drumstick keeps novices on the beat
  • EXTRA: Wait.. they don’t even people to play *games* anymore? – ScienceDaily: Bringing Second Life To Life: Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities Of A Child
  • EXTRA: They have just enough brains to move, not so much to take over. Then again, the same can be said for *neurons*.. – BBC: Chemical brain controls nanobots
  • EXTRA: I’m sure that every time you read this article, it will have changed. – Forbes: A Brief History Of Time Machines
  • EXTRA: Modern-day hazards of sport. – New Scientist: TVs reinforced for those smashing Wii games
  • EXTRA: Sure.. but how will you find your glasses? – Ananova: New glasses can find lost car keys
  • EXTRA: Wait.. these are *real*? – BBC: Rare pygmy hippos caught on film
  • EXTRA: Can you trust a chef who has never tasted the food he prepares? – Ananova: Chef lived on a biscuits
  • EXTRA: If meditation is simply putting your mind somewhere else, this makes perfect sense. – The Daily Mail: Buddhist builder buried alive for TWO HOURS survives by meditating
  • EXTRA: That’s silly.. who puts shoes on a coffin? – Ananova: Shoes too big for coffin
  • EXTRA: Turns out, humans might be well-bread. – New Scientist: Genes shared with yeast could help humans fight aging
  • EXTRA: I don’t think this is news. – Yahoo!/AP: Skeleton may show ancient brain surgery
  • EXTRA: What? Do you think that people just *made up* this kind of mythological being? – TopNews.in/ANI: UP villagers worship child having two faces and four eyes
  • EXTRA: Apparently, jazz music manifests in the brain. – Yahoo!/AP: Study: Creativity jazzes your brain
  • EXTRA: They found it in *shampoo*? Next: household soap can replace heart tissue? – New Scientist: Super-stretchy gel could replace damaged cartilage
  • EXTRA: I think we’d all say a lot more meaningful things to each other if we didn’t speak at all.. – New Scientist: Nerve-tapping neckband used in ‘telepathic’ chat
  • EXTRA: I *knew* that I’d heard about subvocalization before. Here’s an old NASA story about their inventions. – NASA: NASA Develops System To Computerize Silent, “Subvocal Speech”
  • EXTRA: His/her existence redefines sexuality simply by his or her existence. – Ananova: ‘Am I man or woman?’
  • EXTRA: More tales of how the old people aren’t properly laying down and just dying already.. – Ananova: Boxing keeps widow, 100, fit
  • EXTRA: I just kept thinking of Garbage’s “I’m only happy when it rains” line.. – Ananova: Only happy when we’re whingeing?
  • EXTRA: Well.. duh! – PhysOrg: Meditation impacts blood pressure, study shows
  • EXTRA: NEWSFLASH: LOOKING STRAIGHT AT THE SUN WILL BLIND YOU! – India Daily News and Analysis: 50 people looking for solar image of Mary lose sight
  • EXTRA: Since she really had no wounds, it can be said that it looked a lot like the Pink Panther and Monty Python together. – Ananova: Woman survives 100ft fall
  • EXTRA: “As in life, so in death we honour him..” – Ananova: Man hired stripper for dad’s funeral
  • EXTRA: A few thousand of these, and we’d never have a litter problem again! – Ananova: OAP’s litter addiction
  • EXTRA: I would think the crash helmet would have been a better choice *before* the accident.. – Ananova: World’s most determined lorry driver?
  • EXTRA: Men, women, and children in tights. Many Sherrifs of Nottingham very afraid. – Ananova: Many men in tights
  • EXTRA: Everybody has an achievement to celebrate.. If they really *want* to.. – Ananova: World’s longest ear hair
  • EXTRA: So, they replaced the thrill ride of a ride over a rapids on a cable with a bridge? Yawn… – Ananova: World’s worst school run ends

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