TWS177: All That Is, I Will Be, And At Once, Never
CQ: Zombie Shark vs Tiger Army: you decide!
Bumper: JR Murdock (Author of V & A Shipping)
Promo: Braindouche podcast (Promo produced by Cayenne Chris Conroy of Teknical Difficulties)
Promo: Geek Out! With Mainframe
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Science!
- You Are What You Meat
- Once (or Twice) Upon a Time
- Extras
Full list of 51 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- Water, water, everywhere.. now if only I can make them think!: BBC – Presenter, 85, crosses Atlantic on raft for WaterAid
- Now, your memories will no longer be your own..: Metro – ‘Messy’ school photos airbrushed at Melbourne college
- I guess calm, thousand-year-old traditions just don’t cut it when faced with The Gloved One.: Orange – School ditches tai chi for Jacko
- And a finer day for interspecies relations was never had..: BBC – Dotty the Donkey gets PDSA award for saving sheep
- … and then the interspecies relations were lowered, at least between dogs and respecting humans..: Orange – Britain’s most expensive dog wedding
- Judging from their websites, they aren’t really all that picky about skills, either..: Orange – Software firm wants naked web coders
- A potty salon in lieu of a lofty loo?: Orange – Potty fan opens toilet museum
- There’s probably something wrong with winning competition called “Pooh Sticks”..: BBC – Girl wins Oxfordshire World Pooh Sticks Championships
- This is a sign of how conservative the French are getting, perhaps?: The UK Telegraph – French mayor ‘removes statue because its breasts are too big’
- Science!:
- Ah, nostalgia is making another comeback tour.. Or, to put it another way: “RUN/STOP RESTORE”.: The New York Times – The New Commodore 64, Updated With Its Old Exterior
- Ah, mockery.. the one sure way to ensure a lack of broad thinking and scientific exploration..: AOL News – Skeptic Mocks NASA Researcher With ‘Flying Pig Award’ for Finding Life on Meteorites
- It’s like asking “why is the sky blue?” — and realizing that you never thought to ask before..: The UK Daily Mail – Ever wondered why Mars is red? One scientists thinks he knows (and it could happen on Earth, too)
- I wonder if it is smothering in the Milky Way..: The UK Daily Mail – The coolest star in the sky! Newly discovered ‘Brown Dwarf’ has same temperature as a cup of tea
- (EXTRA) Why? Is it spring on the Moon, too?: Phenomenica/ANI – Water may be trapped in lunar potholes
- (EXTRA) I wonder what the price code comes up as?: New Scientist – Barcode scanner for zebras
- Perhaps the coolest excuse for lightning wands EVAR.: The Herald Sun – Bid to put flame-quelling electric wands in the hands of firefighters
- Well, it’s probably better than horse-glue..: BBC – Chicken feathers suggested as basis for plastics
- Also: the tastiest bomb-sniffing kit EVAR.: BBC – Curry powder molecule ‘is cheap sensor for explosives’
- So, basically we smell vibrations on a higher plane.. That explains bean farts, to be sure..: BBC – Quantum physics explanation for smell gains traction
- The only way to skin a Shrodinger’s cat is to look askew at the universe..: New Scientist – Quantum effect fuels colour-fast holograms
- Pretty soon, they’ll discover that the entire universe works on Expand-O-Vision..: New Scientist – Mystery signal at Fermilab hints at ‘technicolour’ force
- Funny, I would have thought they would have caught this on the way down to miniaturization..: New Scientist – Bye-bye electrons? Circuit made from flowing atoms
- Somehow, discovering that there are universal truths behind music makes me shiver (in 2/4 time).: Science Daily – Universal Property of Music Discovered
- You Are What You Meat:
- No…. unless those wafer had a heck of a lot more in ’em.: CBS News – Obesity battle: Does God make you fat?
- (EXTRA) Remind me to get up and stretch, will ya?: WTRF – Bellaire Man Found Stuck in Chair Dies at 43
- It’s kind of a very primitive meme, in a way..: The UK Telegraph – Itching really can be contagious scientists prove
- (EXTRA) It may have even had the Nazis seeing double..: The New York Times – In a Brazilian Town, a Rogue Gene and a Boom in Twins
- (EXTRA) Wait.. so the Nazis are to blame for cholesterol?: The UK Daily Mail – Killer sausages: How the Nazis plotted to fight back after losing the war
- Was it masked as something else?: WYFF – Health Officials: Raccoon Meat Found At Grocery Store
- For those of you who like urban game..: BBC – Squirrel meat served at Edinburgh restaurant
- Under what circumstances could we engineer ourselves to take care of ourselves..: BBC – Chemical found which ‘makes bone marrow repair skin’
- I guess if you can hang on that long, all your burderns are likely dead and gone..: The UK Telegraph – Happiness peaks in our eighties
- (EXTRA) So, I guess there were too many McDonald’s around then, right?: Sydney Morning Herald/AFP – Clogged arteries found in mummy
- (EXTRA) Probably not doing lots for your health..: The UK Guardian – Pakistani brothers ‘dug up corpse and made it into curry’
- Mitichlorians, anyone?: BBC – Plant lives inside animal: algae invade amphibian cells
- (EXTRA) It looks like a new character in Mortal Kombat..: Discovery On/Thanh Nien – New frog species discovered in central Vietnam
- (EXTRA) Hey, they never called ’em “horseboy” and “horsegirl”, did they?: The West Australian/AP – Horse mad teen has a cow
- (EXTRA) The very prime example of “not thinking things through”.: The Local Sweden – Colon cleansing course fined for toilet shortage
- It might even prevent them from becoming vegetarians, when you think about it.. Or maybe prevent them from meatatarianism..: The UK Daily Mail – Scientists develop genetically modified cows that produce ‘human’ breast milk
- (EXTRA) I don’t think Istarfishberrypenguintremeloarccalendarskimzoom…: The UK Daily Mail – Are U.S. government microwave mind-control tests causing TV presenters’ brains to melt down?
- (EXTRA) The real shocker is the realization that beetles don’t surf..: Goldcoast – Beetles take over Surfers Paradise
- (EXTRA) Birds and bees may do it, but bristle worms do it en masse..: The UK Daily Mail – Tens of thousands of bristle worms invade Florida beach in ‘mating frenzy’
- (EXTRA) “And for tomorrow, we’re predicting the weather to be sunny and worm, with slight showers..”: The Scotsman – Never mind cats and dogs – school hit by worm rain
- (EXTRA) IT’S AN INVASION!: BBC – Hundreds of dead starfish wash up on Talybont beach
- Once (or Twice) Upon a Time:
- (EXTRA) History is the story we tell ourselves when we look back to see where we came from, or where we wish we came from..: China Hush – “No more time-travel drama”, authority says it disrespects history
- (EXTRA) Because they’re there..: The UK Independent – Why pubs are on track to open in ‘ghost stations’
- (EXTRA) All history is forged. So is the present. But: does it matter?: The UK Daily Mail – Was the Bible forged? Author claims some New Testament books were written by ‘people pretending to be apostles’
- (EXTRA) Made from impact on metal and leather, one could say it’s a striking likeness..: The UK Daily Mail – Is this the first ever portrait of Jesus? The incredible story of 70 ancient books hidden in a cave for nearly 2,000 years
- (EXTRA) Mostly, these sorts of things have to deal with stupid crap..: BBC – An Asbo in 14th Century Britain
- (EXTRA) I suppose the point of this is to find out, once and for all, what no one really needs to know, but which will satisfy trivia-game players everywhere..: The Washing Post/AP – Italian group seeks to identify bones of woman who may have been model for Mona Lisa
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) A crime that quackers!: WGNtv – Something fowl in Yorkville: 2,500 rubber ducks stolen
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