Show Notes for TWS091: Get Out And Invent As If The World Depended On It

On the show this week:

• Clever People Doing Clever Things
• Apocalypsii
• Rebels Come
• Angry Hordes (extras)

This week’s Challenge Question:
Do you think that a world-changing invention could come from an independent, small-time innovator any more?
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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: Mark Sheppard and Jack Jaffe
• Promo: Chasing the Bard — A sensual pod-novel re-telling of the story of Shakespeare — from the point of view of the fae that loved him. Fantastic storytelling and a captivating storyteller!
• Clever People Doing Clever Things
  • Strangely enough, most of the water car inventors seem to die… 😉 – Frank Warren’s Blog: Was Inventor of ‘Water Fueled Car,” Stanley Meyer Murdered?
  • Reminds me of “danger goggles” that would go dim to hide the danger, except these light up in the face of danger. – New Scientist: Smart binoculars tell soldiers where the danger lies
  • Like a tricorder, it can sense life! Unlike a tricorder, it can’t tell anything else.. – io9: One Step Closer to Tricorders, with Handheld Device that Identifies Life Forms
  • If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em: that is, if you can’t push the stink away, mix in some vanilla stink to go with it. My advice to scent-sensitive: stay away! – Indy6/AP: Anti-Stink Machine To Mask Sewage Smell At Food Fest
  • In such a (physically) small country, it would seem appropriate to develop fake space.. Still: WANT! – CNN/AP: Japan debuts 3-D TV
  • Sounds sexy, but it’s really just basic physics, which is actually sexier.. – New Scientist: ‘Time reversal’ allows wireless broadband under the sea
  • Consorting with demons will allow you to defeat those pesky laws of thermodynamics. Huzzah! – New Scientist: Physicist’s atom-sorting ‘demon’ created with lasers
  • The question is, will they distribute them in a box, or will they *be* the box? – Ananova: Student creates cardboard bike
  • At first I thought “giant robot skyscraper stomps across city”, but rotating is pretty cool, too. – Ananova: Architect plans moving skyscraper
  • Just add blood. No… wait! – New Scientist: Invention: Freeze-dried blood
  • Eventually, we’ll be made out of the stuff.. – New Scientist: Self-cleaning membrane shrugs off unwanted cells
  • Sure, but just try getting *off* the island now.. – Yahoo!/Reuters: Tiny Shetland island declares independence
  • Men are from Mars, women are from Evil. 😉 – New Scientist: Girls are as competitive as boys — just more subtle
  • If you have to ask, you don’t need it. (I didn’t need to ask.) – Ananova: Artist’s record-breaking toaster
  • “The play’s the thing/ In which I catch the girl with the ring!” – Ananova: Dramatic proposal
  • EXTRA: No, they mean really, *really* old farms… – Burnaby Newsleader: Evidence of ancient farming found
  • EXTRA: The building was an elaborately build garage. Clever! Well.. Movie clever, at least. – The New Zealand Dispatch: Stolen car found in living room
  • EXTRA: Let’s get philosophical about whether we are somehow projecting our collective perceptions over dimly perceived events and discovering ideals.. shall we? – RRRGroup: Plato, the Cave, and UFOs
  • EXTRA: Quote: ‘Unless there is evidence of a potential threat, there is no attempt to identify the nature of each sighting reported.’ Great, so only the *bad* aliens are paid any attention? WTF? – RTE News: Britain faces calls for UFO inquiry
  • Alright, so it *sounds* a lot like the TARDIS, but no one said that the alien craft *couldn’t* look like that, right? – The UK Telegraph: Soldier spots 13 UFOs above barracks
• Apocalypsii
  • Part of a natural cycle? Very possibly. Big news? Definitely! Scary environmental future? Guaranteed! – Popular Science: Polar Ice Likely to Disappear This Summer
  • Remember that “slow and steady” lesson the turtle sold you? Turns out, it’s total crap if the bunny gets far enough ahead to lay land mines.. – New Scientist: Climate race separates the weeds from the trees
  • They may not go to the same tailor, but they ofen wear the same (FUD) cloak.. – Ananova: Devil may wear Prada, Pope doesn’t
  • The world *needs* alternative views and investigators into things like this. Please help out in whatever way you can. – Cryptomundo: Save The Museum: Cryptozoology and the IRS
    

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  • Everybody hates it when you find new relatives you didn’t want to know about.. – New Scientist: Bird evolutionary tree given a shake by DNA study
  • Warning, kittie-lovers: this one’s a tear jerker! – Metro: Meet the cat with no face
  • Given enough time, something important happens every day.. – Cryptomundo: St. John’s Day
  • Never assume: you’ll make a fuwa out of you and me. – Yahoo!/Reuters: “Curse of the Fuwa” fulfilled by floods
  • Are we in control of language, or is it, in a way, in control of us? – New Scientist/Reuters: How switching language can change your personality
  • Is this opposites day? – Ananova: Girls banned from whistling at builders
  • I say that little old ladies are now the number one threat to young men. – Ananova: Kung fu granny beats up soldiers
  • EXTRA: This is only unusual in how much it tells us that we are still all children.. – TIME: Japan’s Booming Sex Niche: Elder Porn
  • I wonder if they have leg chains and whips as well.. That would be an entirely different place, I suppose.. – Ananova: Bad old days make comeback
  • EXTRA: Would you like a side of revolution with that, or a peaceful takeover? – BBC: Lebanese food served with a bang
  • EXTRA: Eat your food and maintain your decomposure. – Ananova: World’s biggest coffin
  • EXTRA: Getting away from it all and starting over – now *that’s* an apocalypse! – Ananova: Life down under attracts £1m eBay bids
  • EXTRA: Hold on to your past, because the future is really, really boring.. – Ananova: Archaeologist’s lamppost protest
  • EXTRA: Ok, so tasers can sometimes kill, or they can turn dogs into supervillians.. – The Register: Devil dog laughs in the face of Taser
  • EXTRA: Turns out, we really suck at interpreting Mayan and judging how old the Mayans were. Good thing it wasn’t at a dinner party. Em-barr-asing! – USA Today: The mystery story of the Maya slowly reveals new twists
  • EXTRA: The Sun may be able to illuminate the darkness.. How enlightening! – USA Today/Space.com: Sun might hold secret of dark matter
  • EXTRA: … or maybe we have to wait until our sun peters out.. – New Scientist: ‘Frozen’ stars could shed light on dark matter
  • EXTRA: Personally, I heard it was broccoli not turnips, which was much more exciting. (I like broccoli.) – New Scientist: Martian soil could grow turnips, Phoenix finds
  • EXTRA: I wasn’t even aware that they didn’t sleep in the first place! Damnit, Disney — you lied to me again! – New Scientist: Secret sleep of birds revealed in brain scans
• Rebels Come
  • We should examine the UFO phenomenon not only for what it says about them, but for what it says about *us*.. – The UK Independent: Against The Grain: ‘UFO sightings should be taken more seriously’
  • I’m sure that “they” push the marketing of lanterns for just this sort of coverup… I mean, how are these things legal, anyway? Wouldn’t they mess up traffic patterns? – The UK Telegraph: Wedding lanterns may have sparked Welsh UFO alert
  • No, it’s not biological: it’s a MIND virus. Wait.. – UFO Provacateurs: UFOs and The Roswell Virus
  • The only thing clear to me in this article is that somehow everything revolves around Dr. Stanton Friedman… – UFO Provocateurs: UFO Revolution or Coup d’etat?
  • Ok, so everyone is making the PI jokes.. I don’t want to take that angle on the story. I want something a bit more obtuse. – Wired: Crop Circle: Prank, Alien Contact, or X-Files Alternate Reality Game?
  • A temporary, grand, public monument to human creativity. Mind-bogglingly large. Really, really big. – Dark Roasted Blend: The Largest Human-Made Art on Earth
  • Sounds like they didn’t find the rat underground Internet system, tho’.. – Novosti: Brazilian jail puts stop to ‘pigeon post’ drug deliveries
  • They are probably just confused, after finding out that they were related to falcons.. – BBC: Chicago locals beware the birds
  • What’s with the movie stories this week? – Ananova: High speed daylight robbery
  • Silly guy; he could have build his own bicycle instead. – Ananova: Convict says sorry with a flower
  • Stick your butt in the air, waves like just just don’t *censored*… We are ridiculous and silly and over-protective and stupidly politcally correct.. – Ananova: Baby’s bum ‘pornographic’
  • Ah! The glare! The glare! You terrorist! – Ananova: Bald head ‘too shiny’
  • You can’t fight city hall — not even with Science! – Ananova: Boffin’s maths don’t add up
  • EXTRA: It’s exceptions like this which make me angry: bacon every day? You bastard! – Ananova: Breakfast of champions
  • EXTRA: Will NASA be the next group to admit that they have tonnes of boring, officious, poorly followed up descriptions of UFOs? Man.. sometimes I wonder if those NASA guys really think space is exciting.. 😉 – LiveScience: Opening NASA’s X Files: The Kecksburg Incident
  • EXTRA: I can hardly wait until video from the next generation of camera phones stop looking like the previous generation of camcorders.. – The Sun: UFO is spotted over Bristol
  • EXTRA: A rash of sightings in the UK can mean only one thing: the Brits have UFO power! Run!! – The Sun: Alien army
  • EXTRA: There’s so much wrong with this that I’m really surprised that it ever happened in today’s world. And yet, somehow glad.. – Ananova: Chimp lands tourism job
• Angry Hordes (extras)
  • EXTRA: In highly cryptic lettering, translated through four languages, written backwards in invisible ink and through metaphor and symbolism, he managed to express his true feelings of religion: “Not!” – The Telegraph: Michelangelo ‘hid secret code in Sistine Chapel’
  • EXTRA: Well, woudln’t you? – The Guardian: Baby crocs call out when ready to hatch
  • EXTRA: It’s like camping, but camping for Bigfoot. Keen! – The Earth Times: Bigfoot Hunters Heading to Catskill, New York to Investigate Several Sightings of a Family of Bigfoot, June 26-June 28, 2008
  • EXTRA: A little more about the CFZ trip into Russia.. – Devon 24: Explorers in search of ‘man beast’
  • EXTRA: I wonder if they bought other survivors, too.. – Novosti: Chinese museum buys quake pig that survived 36 days in debris
  • EXTRA: Soon, everyone will want one, or they will build little mechanical versions into the seats themselves.. – Ananova: Dachshund pushes wheelchair
  • EXTRA: Maybe they just liked to look pretty in the fields.. – BBC: First farmers made ‘lucky beads’
  • EXTRA: Yet another article about how Randi has “proven” that no supernatural abilities exist by waving his prize in front of people and putting stringent testing controls in place. – The UK Sunday Mail: Fed-Up Sceptic To Pull Big Paranormal Prize
  • EXTRA: If I ever find myself in Petawawa, I will make sure to look them up.. – The Daily Observer: Communicating with the paranormal in Petawawa
  • EXTRA: Somehow I doubt that TV ever really does that much good. – The Weston Forum: Lisa Miller predicts: Show will help psychic kids
  • EXTRA: Stumbled across this old article on yoga’s effect on the brain. I figure it just causes the blood vessels to swell from all the standing on your head. – PhysOrg: (O) Meditation found to increase brain size
  • EXTRA: *snicker* “Phone masts”? Maybe the suicides are actually people trying to sail away.. – The UK Daily Express: Suicides “Linked To Phone Masts”
  • EXTRA: Sometimes, you should probably just grin and bear it.. – New Scientist: Why anaesthetics can make the pain worse
  • EXTRA: And sometimes, you *can’t* grin.. – New Scientist: Premature babies may show no sign of pain
  • EXTRA: It just goes to show that anything can be screwed up, especially by “well-meaning’ folks.. – New Scientist: Organic pigs breed more bad bugs
  • EXTRA: I do wonder what the tea tastes like.. “Oh, it’s bitter, just like da.” (perhaps) – Ananova: Son turns dad into teapot
  • EXTRA: Strange.. Here, the police are chasing the people on the skateboards.. – Novosti: Skateboard police to fight traffic jams in Indonesian capital
  • EXTRA: If only he had used a reed instead of a frond.. sheesh! – WPBF TV: Palm Frond-Wielding Man Tries To Rob Fla. Store
  • EXTRA: The pressure cooker is starting to show cracks. – Sydney Morning Herald: Sacked real-estate agent tortures boss
  • EXTRA: Harsh! Most kids are just *grounded* not *ground*.. – The Sunday Daily Mail: Boy ‘skinned and eaten’ by his cannibal cult family after being held captive in a cellar
  • EXTRA: Apparently, high school is the best indicator.. Stay in school, kids, or it’s off with your head! – New Scientist: Artificial brain predicts death-row executions
  • EXTRA: I hear they have great a-peal. – Ananova: Thieves steal church bell
  • EXTRA: He likes lawnmowers. When he is caught making love to one as a teenager, will anyone really be surprised? – Ananova: Lawnmower boy
  • EXTRA: Hey, it happens. I forgot I had breakfast once. – Ananova: Man forgot he was married
  • EXTRA: I hope it works as a deterrent and doesn’t become “public art”.. – Ananova: Protesters paint poo pink
  • EXTRA: Take rugby and rain on it. Then, unleash some very crazy people. – Ananova: Team Rambo conquer swamp

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