TWS200: Omnipresient Unreliable Narrator

On November 12, 2011, in Episodes, by the Encaffeinated ONE

CQ: We’ve gone through an industrial revolution, a social revolution, a communications revolution and now we are in the midst of an information revolution. Suppose the next one is an identity revolution. What could be breakthrough in identity in the next few years to overhaul the notion of identity, and what will identity look like?

Bumper: Scott Sigler

Promo: Every Photo Tells

Promo: Technorama

Promo: Podiobooks.com

On the show this week:

Feedback
Front Page
Scientific Revelations
Unquiet Bones
Extras

Full list of 47 articles after the jump!

Feedback:
Front Page:
- By the time I found out, it was already past. Bummer.: Phenomenica/ANI – Giant asteroid to narrowly miss Earth on Nov 8
- A celebration that will truly go to 11.: The Huffington Post – ‘Spinal Tap’ Fans Celebrating Nov. 11 As ‘Nigel Tufnel Day’
- Under what other circumstances are you going to either a) kiss a toe or b) drink with the dead?: The Huffington Post – ‘Sourtoe Cocktail’: Father And Son Bond Over Drinking Dead Man’s Toe (VIDEO)
- A crappy idea that will probably net thousands, if not hundreds of dollars.: Orange – Ty-pooh tea
- Kinda makes a wet summer seem a bit more laughable..: Reuters – Want weird weather? Come to Oklahoma!
- I’m surprised at how not-so-subtle the episode apparently was. Must rewatch!: The Local of Germany – German TV boldly shows ‘Nazi’ Star Trek episode
- In terms of Dresden Files, the lollipop was her wand..: The UK Telegraph – Lollipop lady stops pack of wild horses heading towards school
- Always measure before eating, especially if you might break a record..: The UK Express – MAN GUTTED BY FISH BLUNDER
- At least it’s not a lap-buffalo..: Metro – Canadian man keeps massive buffalo as pet and takes him to local bars
- Beer for dogs is apparently not only *not* a bad idea, but award winning!: The Huffington Post – Bowser Beer For Dogs Earns World Record
- And yet, they can’t find the money they need to bail themselves out.. Unless… Hmm….: FOCUS News Agency – Greeks claim having found Alexander the Great’s tomb, Ark of the Covenant
- Did anyone actually think that full disclosure of any possible alien contact was going to be as simple as clicking a button on a web form? Seriously? Are you people lazy or just deluded? : The Huffington Post – White House: No Evidence That ETs Have Reached Out To Touch Us — Or Even Exist
Scientific Revelations:
- (EXTRA) Yeah, that seems like a perfect application of Occam’s Razor.. ?: The UK Daily Mail – UFO sighting at high school football game explained… as night time skydivers with flares strapped to their ankles
- Celebrating the life and work of Marie Curie, in play form. Somehow, not expecting it to be radioactive among the youth crowd, sadly, just toxic and fleeting.: New Scientist/CultureLab – A life full of passion that led to two Nobel prizes
- Old: “underwater basket weaving”. New: “atomic weaving”.: The West Lothian Courier – Atom weaving breakthrough hailed
- Not sure if it obeyed the laws, or whether it got caught in an Einsteinian speed trap..: New Scientist – Single molecule nanocar takes its first spin
- Can’t find the “dark matter”? Fine! Just create your own (entirely different) dark matter! (Ironically, might be used in the discovery of dark matter..): ScienceDaily – NASA Develops Super-Black Material That Absorbs Light Across Multiple Wavelength Bands
- Should we take drugs to get smarter? Maybe we need to take the drugs in order to get smart enough to answer the question..: New Scientist – The dope on mental enhancement
- (EXTRA) Yeah.. Gents: be careful where you put that thing, it might just kill you.: NBC – Study Links Bestiality, Penile Cancer
- If only dogs and cats could learn to wave their arms, they could do much better at communicating with us, too..: New Scientist – Baby apes’ arm waving hints at origins of language
- Was language merely a random biological aberration rather than a result of social evolution?: Mysterious Universe – Man or Mutant: Is Human Language the Product of Bizarre Mutation?
- Amazing! We’ve been able to make a robot become susceptible to the same mistakes we make! …: New Scientist – Virtual robot links body to numbers just like humans
- Somehow, I suspect there is more Fiji mermaid than ET here..: Phantoms and Monsters – Photos: Alleged ‘Alien’ Body / Mystery Surfaces In Russia
- Comparisons between UFO visitations and elf encounters have been made before.. In this story, however, they seem to be really tiny aliens..: The Caravaca Files – UFO’S: FOLKLORE IN DECONSTRUCTION
- (EXTRA) Rather than dying out, Neanderthals are now believed to possibly have the last laugh: an enduring effect.: The Aspen Times – Fair Game: We’re all Neanderthal
- Nightmares have been forged from the idea of being “locked in” to one’s own body. Now, science tells us it may be more common than thought.: Gather – Study Finds Coma Victims Are Aware of Their Condition
- Sometimes, it really does just take someone pointing out the obvious for us to realize the truth of the world..: io9/Not Exactly Rocket Science – Man with schizophrenia has out-of-body experience in lab, gains knowledge, controls his psychosis
- Relations are complicated enough when you aren’t related..: FOX/AP – Expectant South African Couple Discover They Are Brother and Sister
- NASA’s rover may have finally bricked — and that is a good thing..: io9 – NASA: We’ve discovered something completely new on the surface of Mars
- The unfortunate history of the Russian Mars missions continues..: BBC – Phobos-Grunt Mars probe loses its way just after launch
- (EXTRA) It sounds a lot like examining star corpses.. CSI: Solar?: Philip Coppens – Proclaiming the new science of astroforensics
Unquiet Bones:
- In some ways, far more disturbing than the urban legend of razor-blades in apples at Halloween, because these people mean *well*..: The UK Telegraph – American parents caught selling chickenpox-infected lollipops
- (EXTRA) Note to future caretakers: *not* the way that I want to leave the world!: Yahoo!/AP – Missouri woman found fused to recliner in home
- No rest for the wicked.. Or the financially delinquent… Or the dead..: The Huffington Post/AP – Spanish Cemetery Warns Of Evictions For Nonpayment
- (EXTRA) Well, in a lake, anyway..: National Post – Another foot found on B.C. shoreline
- (EXTRA) He had a collecting problem..: The UK Telegraph – Russian police detain man after finding remains of 20 female corpses in flat
- (EXTRA) Or maybe it was just kinky sex & horror fans..: Smoking Gun – Young Women Nabbed In Bloody Satanic Sex Ritual
- Crowley, you clever bastard!: The UK Telegraph – Curse of Tutankhamun may have been work of Satanist killer
- (EXTRA) Crowley would be jealous..: Reuters – Doctor turned serial killer in WW2 Paris
Extras:
- (EXTRA) Are you kidding? It’s hard enough to get a seller to admit to a weak roof, let alone spiritual denezins..: mental_floss – 4 BR, 2 BA, 1 Ghost: What the Law Says About Selling Haunted Houses
- (EXTRA) See? It’s a *feature*, not a *drawback*..: Wales Online – Yours for L100,000: the haunted lighthouse with great views and a resident ghost
- (EXTRA) Discussing the loup-garou of French Canada.: Who Forted? – Beastly Burdens: The Werewolf of Quebec
- (EXTRA) Either that, or it’s likely clumsy extraterrestrials..: Metro – Albuquerque residents claim giant owls are eating their pets
- (EXTRA) Folk history inspring scientific discovery? Well, only if the scientists chose not to dismiss the folk history immediately..: BBC – Ancient horses’ spotted history reflected in cave art
- (EXTRA) I can’t really see it, but then again, I’m an atheist.: The UK Telegraph – Smirking face of the Devil discovered in Giotto fresco
- (EXTRA) You see, “transparency” is easy to desire, but when applied to your tests, this might be too far..: Orange – School’s out
- (EXTRA) Apparently, it’s just *that* good..: The UK Mirror – Crisps theft: Robbers armed with hammer and axe take just one packet of Monster Munch during raid