TWS199: The Perpetual Penultimate
CQ: If energy becomes essentially free, how will the world be changed? Be as creative as possible!
Bumper: Dylan of Berlin
Promo: Bell’s In The Batfry
Promo: All Games Considered
Promo: Braindouche!
On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- Uncarved Pumpkin
- Space is the Place
- Scared E-Cat
- Extras
Full list of 45 articles after the jump!
- Feedback:
- Front Page:
- Missed from last week: A room with a U..: Gadling – (O) Stay in a UFO in Sweden
- It si the beginning of the merging of mankind and machine..: The UK Telegraph – Man gets smartphone dock built into prosthetic arm
- Spam is largely that soft rotten spot on that strawberry.. Or maybe the worm..: The UK Telegraph – Internet ‘weighs the same as a strawberry’
- Oh, those clever Vikings! Not quite the crude barbarians as depicted in mass media, eh?: The UK Guardian – Sunstones may have helped Vikings navigate from Norway to America
- So technically, tanning is your skin blinking. (Your welcome.): New Scientist – Skin ‘sees’ the light to protect against sunshine
- You can see this as an inner beauty story, perhaps..: The UK Daily Mail – Doctor claims he can turn brown eyes blue (but he can’t change them back again)
- And thus spake the corduroy messiah onto his peoples: “Yo, how’s it hanging, man?”: Orange – Corduroy fans await their ‘messiah’
- Not all messiahs have as much luck..: The Huffington Post – Harold Camping Apologizes For Faulty Rapture Predictions And Retires, Report States
- Now that’s altogether far-too-casual dining, and likely to cause more complaints..: Orange – Pole-dancing dinner lady shocks pupils
- Uncarved Pumpkin:
- Alternatively, couldn’t they have just called up satisfied customers?: The UK Guardian – Sally Morgan rejects Halloween challenge to prove her psychic powers
- Well, that *would* be the danger of inherited royalty along narrow bloodlines, wouldn’t it?: The Huffington Post/AP – Prince Charles Related To Vlad The Impaler?
- Do the other 2/3 believe in anything at all?: The News.PL – One in three Poles believe in the power of spells
- Phew! It’s a good thing that its all in our brain, like all of our perceptions, memories, morals and truths — and therefore meaningless and fake..: STV – Near-death experiences a trick of the brain, researchers find
- Now you can’t believe all the things that you can’t believe are real..: io9 – Psychologist admits to faking dozens of scientific studies
- One giant leap forward for Halloween, one shambling step forward for weddings..: Metro – Halloween wedding for scary skeleton couple
- (EXTRA) A realistic statue of a dead man representing a jailed artist. What could possibly go wrong?: Yahoo!/Reuters – Sculpture of Ai WeiWei corpse spooks German town
- No, folks, the Simpsons didn’t originate this idea… (That show has been on too long..): Inhabitat – Three-Eyed Fish Caught Near Argentinian Nuclear Power Plant
- As long as it didn’t start singing..: The UK Telegraph – Face discovered in testicular tumour
- Now, if they had tanned and/or bbq’d it first..: The Huffington Post – Jasha Lottin, Oregon Woman, Took Nude Photos Inside Horse Carcass (PHOTOS)
- (EXTRA) It’s a good thing she didn’t pose by the kills, like some sort of hunter..: The New York Times – For This Menace, Only One Thing to Do: Ready, Aim, Fireworks!
- (EXTRA) Sadly, the most attention-gathering part of this article has nothing to do with the ghost part..: The UK Telegraph – Guy Gibson: ghost of Dambusters dog ‘found’ at airbase
- Well, that’s certainly a new take on the classic ghost tale..: The Huffington Post – Ghost Sex At Ohio Haunted House Arouses Interest Of Paranormal Researchers (VIDEO)
- (EXTRA) It’s kinda like a North American Haunted House.. Only less scary and more colourful..: The Malay Star – ‘Travellers’ bump into dead relatives and deities in shades of red, white and yellow
- Space is the Place:
- (EXTRA) Apparently, he missed it all the other nights..: The UK Daily Mail – Bizarre 999 call from man who says he’s seen a UFO over his house… but it turns out to be the moon
- Can you influence science?: Entangled Minds blog – (O) Double slit experiment online
- Or rather, they “might” be.. We probably need to go there to really find out. (Hint, hint.): The UK Daily Mail – Laws of physics ‘are different’ depending on where you are in the universe
- (EXTRA) What sort of fundamental changes are needed in order to understand the world?: Paranormalia – The Spiritualization of Science
- It feels a little like commercial sponsorship..: PhysOrg – Three new elements named, including one for Copernicus
- Um.. Oops.: Yahoo!/Digital Trends – World’s most powerful laser could ‘tear apart the vacuum of space’
- And yet, Biosphere 2 failed miserably..: New Scientist – Mars 500 ‘marsonauts’ emerge eager to try real thing
- Aha! I get it now: we hide the next moon mission in the guise of just getting to Mars..: New Scientist – Space station may be site for next mock Mars mission
- (EXTRA) These are “tractor beams” in much the same way that toothpicks are swords..: BBC – Nasa examines ‘tractor beams’ for sample gathering
- (EXTRA) Bright Lights! Big (Alien) City!: New Scientist – Alien bright lights, big city could reveal ET
- Scared E-Cat:
- : Renewable Energy World – Clean, Safe, Cheap Nuclear Update
- : Pure Energy Systems News – 1 MW E-Cat Cold Fusion Device Test Successful
- : Wired UK – Success for Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat cold fusion system, but mysteries remain
- : Pure Energy Systems – Rebuttal to Krivit’s Accusation that Andrea Rossi is a Fraudster
- : Pure Energy Systems – E-Cat Orders Being Taken After Successful Launch
- : Fox News – Cold Fusion Experiment: Major Success or Complex Hoax?
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) : PhysOrg – Monkeys with larger friend networks have more gray matter
- (EXTRA) : Orange – Obscene graffiti found at royal palace
- (EXTRA) : UPI – Police: Gym teacher faked bomb threat
- (EXTRA) : DiscoveryOn/IANS – Cloud that can hold water for ages detected
- (EXTRA) : The Sydney Morning Herald – ‘Braised koala’ gets traveller stewing
- (EXTRA) : BBC – Facelift for A40 Victorian drink-drive warning pillar
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