TWS176: Turn the Other Other Cheek
CQ: It could be said that science fiction not only attempts to predict the future, but perhaps even to create it. What is the most amazing science fiction concept or object that you think we should try to make into a reality — even if it is impossible?
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On the show this week:
- Turning to the Front Page
- Turning Cheeky
- Cheeky Turning
- Extra Cheeky
Full list of 58 articles after the jump!
- Turning to the Front Page:
- Fundamentally, we’re all human, after all. Well, except for the robots..: CBS News – Report: Japanese mafia providing quake relief
- He’s not my brother — he’s heavy!: Yahoo! UK – Three year old boy weighs 9 stone
- Apparently, we have now proven that light travels great distances easily.. Hmm..: BBC – North Wales hillfort test of Iron Age communication
- Nothing is more dangerous to the success to cryptozoological hunts than “official” hunts..: Yahoo! UK – Official yeti probe planned after recent sightings
- (EXTRA) It’s be like Bilbo making it out of the caverns without Gollum to lead him. Or maybe there’s a rat-Gollum in the sewers. (Hmm.. I smell a novel. Or a sewer..): The UK Daily Mail – Catnav! Lost pet used sewers to get home in ten-day trek
- Maybe this will work for me: whenever I try to play music, I certainly feel paralyzed..: DiscoveryOn – Paralysed people can play music just by thinking about it!
- In order to make this product, we had to destroy some of it. Wait, what?!?: The Sweden Local – Sausage contained 104 percent meat
- Turning Cheeky:
- (EXTRA) : Orange – Sheep ‘gives birth to dog’
- At what point does this become a tradition? (Says the guy who has kept a rubber bat in his cars since his first one..): Manchester Evening News – Come pie with me: Family from Bacup who take 40-year-old burnt meat pie on their holidays
- When are they going to give it the talk, and admit to it that it isn’t going to grow up?: AOL – Gay Couple Takes Adopted Doll Around the World (and They All Wear Matching Outfits)
- By the end, he’ll only be half a man!: Orange – Sumo wrestler runs marathon
- I wonder if he plans to take up ass-kicking in general, just so he’ll be busy?: AOL – One-Legged ASU Wrestler Claims NCAA Championship
- There’s probably a joke about snow balls in there somewhere…: Orange – Skiers strip off for party in the snow
- I’m sure it was just her naked politics and bare accusations..: Metro – Naked shower protest by Peta makes driver crash his car
- I suspect a really bad giver-of-directions in there somewhere: “Oh, it’s just over those rocks!”..: Metro – Naked woman rescued from cliffs trying to reach nudist beach
- This might just be where we started the notion of “gettin’ down”..: Science Daily – Fossils Record Reveals Ancient Migrations, Trilobite Mass Matings
- Sometimes, you gotta know when to change your life..: Metro – Drew Beaumier, real-life Transformer, reveals ‘chicks find it sexy’
- Is there value in the extreme parody of trolling? Should they all be cannonised? (As in: fired out of a cannon..): AOL – ‘Earthquake Video Woman’ Tamtampamela Shakes Up the World of Internet Trolls
- Extreme trolling? A dark. twisted form of Darwinist belief?: CBC/AP – U.S. man convicted of encouraging suicides
- Is it about outrageous parody — or tasty, tasty wildlife?: AOL – ‘Eat a Koala’ Campaign Promotes Business, Creates Controversy
- What do zombie attacks have to do with school recruitment? What, have you never attended morning classes?: Orange – ‘Banned’ university ads go viral
- (EXTRA) On the bright side: he now holds the record, I’m sure..: Yahoo! – Man gets parking ticket after 30 seconds
- (EXTRA) The less successful video series: Squirrels Gone Wild!: AOL – Squirrel Goes Nuts, Terrorizes Vt. Neighborhood
- (EXTRA) And you thought the loan requirements were steep!: AOL – Cops: Man Robs Bank After Giving Teller Two Forms of ID
- (EXTRA) No one should likely take his advice that seriously… ever..: AOL – Suspect to Cops: Dr. Phil Warned Me of Alien Invasion
- At some point, we have to realize that money isn’t money when it’s atoms.. Lots and lots and LOTS of atoms..: KLPC-TV – Man uses pennies to pay credit card bill
- (EXTRA) Geez, I hate even carrying change in my jean pockets..: AOL – Police: Woman Hid 54 Bags of Heroin, Money in Her Vagina
- If possession of fake drugs is illegal, what about those pill-shaped candies, or licorice cigarrettes?: AOL – Virginia Middle School Students Suspended for Oregano Possession
- Strangely enough: they didn’t find any drugs…: KPLC-TV – Skulls found during drug raid
- It’s like the cool version of Wiley E Coyote’s bomb piano..: The Sweden Local – Swedish police seize musical deadly weapon
- (EXTRA) You think that’s bad? Just wait until the cleaning bill comes in, now that the wreckage can be salvaged!: STV – A bad note: the bill sent to Titanic violinist who played on as the ship went down
- Apparently, it’s all or nothing when dealing with matters of the heart..: The UK Telegraph – Occasional physical and sexual activity bad for the heart
- (EXTRA) The chances of confusing these two activities is tremendously low cut.: AOL – Philadelphia Breast Surgeon Moonlights as Knife Thrower
- (EXTRA) I think we’re back to “roll the dice”..: DiscoveryOn – New plant species offers insights into how evolution works
- (EXTRA) Yeah, but it didn’t file for the patent, so it’s gonna be sued..: New Scientist – Beach beetle reinvents the wheel
- (EXTRA) Not sure where cuckoos got the “crazy” reputation — sounds more like they are intellectual property theives!: BBC – Cuckoo in egg pattern ‘arms race’
- Cheeky Turning:
- (EXTRA) I kinda argue that it’s still weird, fundamentally..: Discovery – Once Upon a Time, the Universe Was Really Weird
- A clear indication that some will be upset about anything. I bet some of you are upset about that.: AJC/AP – Brawl over spaghetti in NYC subway ignites debate
- This goes right back to “God, give me the strength…” and “Yea, though I walk through the valley of annoying jerks, I shall fear no evil (and stop packing a knife)..”: Medical News Today – Praying For Anger Management
- This is what happens when you don’t use a custom skin mod on your avatars. You start to think that every spawned instance is the same! … Wait, this *isn’t* about pets in World of Warcraft?: The Globe and Mail – B.C. man fights to adopt dog he argues is reincarnation of old pet
- If they’d just let the embers die out, the rekindling spell would fail! It’s a critical ingredient component, and no one can succeed with the +15 difficulty mod from “missing spell components”!: The Balkan Cronicle – Old Bulgarian occult debate rekindled
- Uh-oh.. When these ancient leaders start to sway madly like that, they are often rotten at the core and about to collapse under the weight of their oppressive regimes and propoganda.. TIM–BERRRR!: ABC Australia – Capitalism may have ended life on Mars: Chavez
- And we can’t even build a decent flying car!?!: The UK Daily Mail – We’ve built a flying saucer, boasts Iran (even if it does look like it belongs in a 1950s B-movie)
- Remember the movie: Brother From Another Planet? (No, I don’t either..): AOL – Nation of Islam Looks to UFOs to Save the World
- Not everyone looking skyward necessarily thinks “space buddies are coming to support my political cause”. Many just think: “Whoa.”: Yahoo!/Reuters – “Red” rocker Sammy Hagar says abducted by aliens
- Who needs God when you’ve got aliens?: Rael Press – “God is a Myth!” Raelian Movement launches atheistic campaign
- Not hard to believe that any sort of reflective meditation would be helpful to making the mind work better… Although I recommend chess, too.: Medical News Today – Transcendental Meditation Found To Improve Standardized Academic Achievement
- All vegetables are holy. They are also rather obnoxious, and aren’t likely to conform to your religious ideology.: The Jamaica Gleaner – The praying yam of Struan
- I wonder if they’re looking for him to Change their calendar..: Brazil Weird News – El Salvador: Maya priests are praying for Obama
- Soon, religious scholars and historians will be able to agree that dinosaurs and man *did* live beside each other, but that the dinos were elders of the church.: BBC – Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says
- a little editorializing, biblical adapters?: Discovery News – God’s Wife Edited Out of the Bible — Almost
- We shall name it… Herbert!: New Scientist – Biology’s ‘dark matter’ hints at fourth domain of life
- Apparently, the fourth domain of life isn’t “rust”..: The UK Daily Mail – Whoops! Scientists left red-faced as oldest ‘evidence of life’ turns out to be iron deposits
- (EXTRA) So.. should we worry yet? Or just chain down our lawn ornaments and plan our above-ground, mountain-side bunkers?: New Scientist – World’s wind and waves have been rising for decades
- Extra Cheeky:
- (EXTRA) I hear he went kinda Sheen in the end..: AOL – Knut, the Polar Bear Pictured With Leo DiCaprio in ‘Vanity Fair,’ Dies
- (EXTRA) He certainly didn’t seem to have his head screwed on right..: Yahoo!/AFP – Berlin polar bear Knut ‘had brain damage’: zoo
- (EXTRA) Next, they’ll go on to prove that altruism is impossible, democracy is unfounded and all fiction is invalid.: Fox News – El Chupacabra Mystery Definitively Solved, Expert Claims
- (EXTRA) The writing on the bottom signaled the end of the Roman era: “This Side Up”.: STV – ‘Internationally significant’ Roman altar stones are unveiled
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