TWS171: The Battery Of Evidence Is In Charge
CQ: Are we at the peak of commonplace technology, or will there be some massively impacting future technology that truly changes how we live — and what will it be?
Bumper: Jim Ryan (Every World News, The Great Debate)
Promo: How To Grow Your Geek
Promo: Short Cummings
On the show this week:
- Alternative Current (Front Page)
- Negative Terminal
- Positive Connection
- Neutral (Extras)
Full list of 100 articles after the jump!
- Alternative Current (Front Page):
- I wonder how this will effect the taste of chilis? I put some in the freezer to test..: AOL – Snow … in Mexico? Rare Winter Dusting Shuts Down Ciudad Juarez
- Where nature violates regular patterns, one can see the perturbations in the grand chaotic scheme of the pseudo-cycles of the universe, and rapid, unpredictable change occurs. Hold on tight, folks..: Yahoo!/AP – 35 zoo animals freeze to death in northern Mexico
- Add layers of technology into the mix of nature, and even strange coincidences will start to occur..: MSNBC – Winter not bad enough? How about exploding manholes
- (EXTRA) What secrets wait for us buried under the sea? And will they like being disturbed?: NewsDaily – Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic lake
- I guess just sending out a bunch of Valentine’s Day cards isn’t enough..: AOL – How to Handle Valentine’s Day When You’re Polyamorous
- To some degree, isn’t the very basis of Valentine’s Day somewhat adult in nature? We infantalize it and fantasize about the pureness of child-like fondness, but really, it’s about adult coupling, right?: KCRA – Girl Finds Adult Message On Candy
- I suspect that it’s hard to feeel oppressed when you’re makin’ out. (Sadly, only suspecting these days — I have no proof on hand — or lips for that matter.): AOL – Male Rights Activist Calls for Valentine’s Day Boycott
- I worry that we worry too much about getting the message just right, and we’ll never send our intergalactic Valentine..: AOL – Earthling Scientists Work on Plan to Call ETs
- Now that movies are more real than reality, we are in a new age of uncertainty.: Gralien Report – Secular Quarter: Culture Intersects with UFOs Over Jerusalem
- The fact that no one on the ground seens to react to the creepy figure is a pretty dead giveaway.: WorldNetDaily – Video: Has Revelation’s ‘pale rider’ shown up in Egypt?
- (EXTRA) Sorta like proto-shells, or the M&Ms of life.: ScienceDaily – Clay-Armored Bubbles May Have Formed First Protocells: Minerals Could Have Played a Key Role in the Origins of Life
- It’s too bad his name is more synonymous with simple art awesomeness than a brand of flour..: DiscoveryOn – Rembrandt ‘mixed flour with paints’ for a thicker painting stroke
- Unfortunately, even knowing the code he believes that it isn’t worth playing. That’s probably telling us something..: The Toronto Star – Toronto man cracked the code to scratch-lottery tickets
- Well, at least it didn’t move itself.: Yahoo!/SKY News – Bosses Move ‘Haunted’ Theme Park Ride
- Negative Terminal:
- (EXTRA) Nothing say “I don’t love you” like a cake.: Croatian Times – Divorce cakes latest craze in Zagreb
- The hard thing about trying to use your brain alone to make decisions is the fact that it is hard-wired to a meat machine..: PhysOrg – Feeling warm makes people more likely to believe in global warming, study finds
- (EXTRA) It’s like a sponsored dating site… Hmm..: Orange – ‘Win a Wife’ contest sparks outrage
- (EXTRA) Yeah, because the courts are so good at changing people’s long-held beliefs..: The Two Way/NPR – Despite Court Rulings, Creationism Still Taught In Many American Classrooms
- Love as hostage. Wrong message?: The UK Telegraph – Belgian senator calls on ‘sex strike’ until political deadlock is broken
- (EXTRA) Wait: doesn’t every place give a better deal to the regulars, the locals?: ABC/KITV – Waikiki Eatery Charges ‘Non-English Speaking Guests’ Gratuity
- (EXTRA) Well, Micky D *did* kidnap our diets, first.. (Sadly, they suffered from Stockholm syndrome, and haven’t recovered yet..): Orange – Group kidnaps Ronald McDonald
- (EXTRA) Ok, so it might really *be* dangerous to just ask questions.. What a disappointment for the “free” world..: CBS News/AP – Conn. Man Asks Cops About Growing Pot, Is Arrested
- Demand the Sooth, the Whole Sooth, and nothing but absolute honesty in political statements and weather forecasts..: NPR/AP – Romania To Soothsayers: Get It Right Or Go To Jail
- (EXTRA) It’s like Godwin’s Law for card games..: Orange – Evil dictator trump cards probe
- (EXTRA) Hey, even Satan got to be cool after a while, so there’s really just a statute of limitations on disgust and perceptions of evil..: Yahoo!/AP – Miss. license plate proposed to honor KKK leader
- (EXTRA) Sadly, in death she became the butt of the joke..: MSNBC – NJ Woman Questioned in Alleged Butt Implant Death
- (EXTRA) Half of me goes “how romantic!”; the other half never wants to kiss a virgin, or she’ll die.: The UK Telegraph – Teenage girl collapses and dies after first kiss
- She should probably never move to New Brunswick..: The UK Daily Mail – The little girl who can never eat ice cream as she could die if she gets the slightest chill
- Is this how the Ghouls started in Fallout 3? (I don’t know, myself: I haven’t finished the game…): MSNBC Today – British girl, 5, sheds her ‘snakeskin’ every day
- (EXTRA) Personally, I probably would have used the napkin..: Burnham-on-Sea – Doner kebab ‘saved life of Highbridge stabbing victim’
- Given that we eat so much crap already, can this be surprising?: AOL – Could Ingesting Poo Be Good for You?
- (EXTRA) It’s the fact that they describe it (in the comments) as “moving” that makes me wonder.. Disease or new lifeform? Do we then have the right to kill it? (Yes.): CBS/CBS13 – Man Survives Huge ‘Alien’ Tumor
- (EXTRA) Soon, the Graboids will take a few residents away..: The UK Daily Mail – Tremor terror: The tiny town that gets a dozen earthquakes EVERY DAY after gas drilling goes awry
- (EXTRA) Soon, there will be no more aphrodisiacs left in the world. Slimy, smelly aphrodiacs..: The UK Daily Mail – Oysters are becoming ‘functionally extinct’ as 85% of reefs disappear around the world
- (EXTRA) One time is a freak occurence; two times a coincidence. How many times before it becomes a real concern?: The UK Daily Mail – Alarming riddle of the seas as thousands more dead fish wash up on U.S. beach in latest mass death mystery
- (EXTRA) Back in the ancient times, even bears had to be more badass to surivive..: CBS News/LiveScience – Prehistoric Bones Found of Largest-Ever Bear
- (EXTRA) Given the likely depreciation of property, only the small-brained would want to live there!: BBC – Chernobyl birds are small brained
- (EXTRA) Like a Thief In The Night.: AOL/AP – ND Team Exposed to Raccoon Pulled From Tournament
- (EXTRA) A new genre is born: pre-apocalyptic fiction.: The UK Daily Mail – ‘Super pack’ of 400 wolves terrorise remote Russian town after killing 30 horses in just four days
- What’s the sign for “Don’t crap on the carpet!”?: The UK Daily Mail – Happy ending for Sparky the deaf dachsund after he learns sign language and gets adopted
- (EXTRA) Not nearly as stressed as the people they fly over.: BBC – Ravens stressed by ‘gang life’
- (EXTRA) It’s a problem with a real sting.: Mind Hacks – Getting high from snakebites
- (EXTRA) Are they taking a cue from the wolves?: BBC – Shark attacks rose in 2010 to highest in decade
- (EXTRA) Just don’t let them flock together. Or work at airports.: AOL – Guard Parrots? Talking Birds Avert Burglary, Cops Say
- (EXTRA) Realizes in the end that the relationship isn’t going anywhere..: news24/Die Berger – Woman drives around with snake for 2wks
- By year’s end, he’ll be demanding a gold bowl and getting poodles to deliver his bones.: AOL – Ruff Politics: Kentucky Mayor Is a Real Dog
- Nature is ganging up on us.: The UK Daily Mail – Now we’re in the poop: Holiday park left with £10,000 clean-up bill for SEVEN INCHES of bird droppings
- (EXTRA) Yeah, because it’s racist, just like those tanning salons and spray-on tans.. Hmm..: Nature – Indian government competition for better skin whiteners draws fire – February 03, 2011
- (EXTRA) And here I was hoping for cyberpsychosis before rejection..: NBC NY – Pain Leads Art Professor to Remove “Third Eye” Camera From Head
- Well, at least you can get rid of leftovers easier..: NPR – Meat-Eating Furniture
- Does it really help to humanize the robot, or is that just confusing things?: AOL – Robonaut to Join Astronauts for Space Mission
- And within a few minutes, it’ll be filled with robot porn..: BBC – Robots to get their own internet
- (EXTRA) You’d think a few thousand years of experience with fireworks would make a people better at recognizing the consequences…: The UK Daily Mail – Five-star hotel destroyed in blaze started by fireworks celebrating Chinese New Year
- (EXTRA) In truth, it was probably suicidal..: The UK Daily Mail – Clumsy! The bomb disposal robot that dropped a live grenade… and then ran over it
- Well, most of us are being killed by it anyway, so…: Yahoo!/AFP – Sicily couple murdered man with butter
- I hope the statisticians ate well.: The UK Guardian/Press Association – Poor diets may lower children’s IQ
- I’ll never look at butter the same way..: The UK Daily Mail – Teenager killed after he drives wrong way down freeway and smashes into truck full of flammable margarine
- (EXTRA) Ah, the classic mob excuse: “I was aiming fer the birds, copper!”: The UK Daily Mail – Cookie factory manager faces charges after ‘shooting employee in the back of the head… after aiming at birds’
- (EXTRA) Just say no, and lick crime! Stamp it out!: Yahoo!/Reuters – Stick ’em up! Your money or your scented stamps
- I’d rather ban those over-drenched perfumed people..: BBC – Malawi row over whether new law bans farting
- For sinners-on-the-go, or when your church has lousy parking.: The New York Daily News – ‘Confession: A Roman Catholic App’ allows iPhone, iPad users to repent for sins on the go
- It’s like an imperial-to-metric system problem, I think..: AOL – Catholic Church Issues Guide on How to Convert Witches
- (EXTRA) Order your own conversion kit, and you to can stamp out evil at home! Or maybe learn how old-fasioned some institutions are..: Catholic Truth Society – Wicca and Witchcraft
- (EXTRA) I’m not sure how this was supposed to help anyone’s karma, or soul, or extra-dimensional being, or whatever..: The UK Daily Mail – FBI investigates Church of Scientology over claims of human trafficking, enslavement and violence
- No saintly transfusions, then. Bummer. *scratches it off immortality list*: Yahoo!/Reuters – Pope can no longer donate organs: Vatican
- Positive Connection:
- (EXTRA) Some folks will do anything for a free beer..: The UK Telegraph – Finns to revive beer from 19th century shipwreck
- (EXTRA) It can’t be any more fake than other so-called “reality” TV shows..: Ecorazzi – Bigfoot: New Reality TV Star?
- (EXTRA) So they go from “secret things” to just “things”?: Inexplicata – Chile: UFO Declassification Begins
- (EXTRA) Even monkeys are like “WTF? Leave me alone!”, once and a while..: National Geographic – Weird Animal News: Monkeys’ “Do Not Disturb” Sign
- (EXTRA) I suspect it’s all just an AFO plan: Alliteration Founded Object.: AOL – ‘UFO Phil’ Wants to Put a Pyramid on Pikes Peak
- Cthulhu still hidden, tho’..: Just News/Post-Newsweek – Rarely Seen Blanket Octopus Spotted Off Keys
- You can chick in, but you can never leave.: This is Cornwall – Helston’s Chicken Hotel – where guests can lay their own eggs
- (EXTRA) At some point, they’re just going to accept that 90% of the web is made up of dogs, and the rest is penguins. Penguins all the way down, man..: The Portsmouth News – Flap as penguin is banned from Facebook
- Be sure to take this with a grain of not-salt..: New Scientist – Taste bud trickery needed to cut salt intake
- (EXTRA) You don’t have to be a success to be a success, just be able to write about failure. And fail, spectacularly and often.: AOL News – Unemployed Man Working on Staying Unemployed
- (EXTRA) Today, this dude would be arrested for “mock domestic terror”.: The Irish Independent – ‘Bang Bang’ Dudley rides again
- (EXTRA) Hey, if Ice T can reform, why not this guy? Besides: who /isn’t/ so horny?: AOL – ‘Me So Horny’ Rapper Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew Running for Mayor
- (EXTRA) They *did* have a pretty big sky back then, and some time to kill at night..: News.com.au – Wurdi Youang rocks could prove Aborigines were first astronomers
- Some people will do anything for a free beer. 😉: BBC – Belgian Stefaan Engels completes record 365th marathon
- Some people will do anything for a free beer. 😉: AOL – 90-Year-Old Yoga Teacher Tries to Break Guinness World Record
- At age 84, I might just steal cats, too…: CBC/CP/AP – Notorious 84-year-old Hungarian cat burglar ‘Flying Gizi’ caught again by police
- Of course, you have to ask: why the heck didn’t the person with the camera help her out?: AOL – Avenging Granny Beats Gang of Robbers With Handbag
- (EXTRA) Normally, such things are mock-worthy, but this dude is one seriously awesome geek.: New Scientist – Super-geek builds DIY chatbot to speak to his fiancée
- (EXTRA) Well, I have *now*..: STV – Did you hear the one about the Japanese comic who tried to make 100 Dundonians smile?
- Giving photons a helping hand, and inspiring scientists and science fiction writers toward really odd predictions..: New Scientist – Light through a blocked hole? Plasmonics is the answer
- You can’t get somewhere for nothin’, ya know! Theoretical particles want their cut, too..: New Scientist – Vacuum has friction after all
- (EXTRA) It’s like a bored shop class prodigy..: AOL – Artist Andrew Myers Screws His Paintings
- (EXTRA) Best $840 anyone’s spent, and I bet she’s cashing in on it now..: AOL – It Took 84,000 Pennies, But Mom’s Giant Coin Really Makes Cents
- (EXTRA) Probably includes actually miniature passengers and overpriced food options..: Orange – £30m toy train set up for grabs
- (EXTRA) It’s like a bad idea given form — and function!: The UK Daily Mail – Looking sharp: Head-shaving helmet nicks minutes off grooming regime
- (EXTRA) Well, I suppose that means that they were qualified for their job..: NewsDaily – Grave robber chase reveals ancient Holy Land church
- (EXTRA) Funny, I was expecting something more than.. a hill..: The UK Daily Mail – Motorway maximus: Unearthed, a stunning Roman super-highway built 1,900 years ago
- (EXTRA) Wil Wheaton is funny.: AOL – Can’t Find a Date? Let a Celeb Be Your Matchmaker
- Neutral (Extras):
- (EXTRA) Cloud surfing when couch surfing..: New Scientist – Kinect hack makes you the Man of Steel
- (EXTRA) Talk about your low-hanging fruit, just dangling there.: MSNBC/AP – Scratch ‘Harry Baals’ off list of names for government center
- (EXTRA) He must have eaten too much butter.. Though frankly, we should all probably take a course before intercourse..: The UK Telegraph – Court bans man with low IQ from having sex
- (EXTRA) Soon, she might even have to use a fork.: The UK Telegraph – Queen catches train back to London after winter break
- (EXTRA) Since we can’t find actual water, are we going to start calling it “Dark Water”? And will it be creepy like the Japanese movie (but not the American remake)?: Science Daily – Rare Meteorites Reveal Mars Collision Caused Water Flow
- (EXTRA) Soon, they’ll uncover the Old Ones..: BBC – Secrets of Antarctica’s fossilised forests
- (EXTRA) Today, we just consider them to have unbelievably good collectable value..: DiscoveryOn – Vikings considered Stone Age objects to have magical qualities
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