TWS203: This Episode Feels Perfectly Entitled
CQ: It seems apparent that we live in a time of rapid, incredible, destabilizing technological change; is this technology going to be solution for our times — or is the cause of the problems for which more solutions must be found?
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On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- View-F-Oh
- Heat things up
- Beyond This Earth
- Extras
Full list of 40 articles after the jump!
- Feedback:
- Front Page:
- Anonymous public art is pretty awesome.: NPR – The Library Phantom Returns!
- Note to self: unpack wallet from coat before growing old.: Yahoo! – Man accidentally gives away life savings hidden away in suit donated to “Goodwill”
- Not exactly the stuff of fairy tales.. Or is it?: Stuff – It’s a bird eat bird world
- Shambling is the new (old?) planking..: BBC – Mexico City claims zombie walk world record
- I hope they at least thanked him.: Metro – British man drags piano to top of mountain to serenade blind elephants
- I guest they had to do something to patch that Wall of theirs..: Metro – World’s longest Christmas cake created in China
- Perhaps because only then can we see what they were talking about?: io9 – Why has synesthesia survived throughout human evolutionary history?
- I can see this becoming the new thing..: New Scientist – All-seeing ball snaps panoramas in mid-air
- Merry Christmas and Pass The Ammunition!: FOX/KSAZ – Family Pictures Taken With Santa, Machine Guns
- It’s either the police or PETA that will go after you for that..: The UK Daily Mail – That’s a fishy tale, sir! Police arrest man for ‘kill and stab’ threat on Facebook after buying lobsters for dinner
- View-F-Oh:
- Does a theory on the “physics of information” explain everything from “why does gravity work?” to “are aliens visiting?”?: The Gralien Report – Jacques Vallee on “A Theory of Everything (Else)”
- In summary: no summer cottage planets just yet..: BBC – Most liveable alien worlds ranked
- Y’know, most of these would be solved by a field trip. Just sayin’..: io9 – 10 Unsolved Martian Mysteries
- The problem is: with lack of evidence and obvious impossibilities (can’t be in all places at all times), he can’t really prove that he made them — only claim to, on the evidence that he faked some. Sounds like a glory-seeker to me!: StarPod – CONFESSIONS OF A CROP CIRCLE MAKER
- (EXTRA) Aliens won’t be important until you can tax them..: Herald-Tribune/De Void – Are UFOs trivial enough for Congress?
- Once again, someone trying extremely civil ways to access extremely uncivil knowledge..: Grenz/Wissenschaft-aktuell – Berlin court hearing demands release of secret German UFO report
- The problem is, if he were really right about half of the things he claimed, he would never have lived to tell them.: The UK Daily Mail – Wacky conspiracy theorist David Icke cashes in from world tour and booming book business
- Hey, what’s wrong with aliens putting us on diets? … Oh, not *that* kind of “thin”.. Ooops!: DNA India/ANI – Alien technology being used to thin Earth’s population: Eisenhower’s descendent
- Why would it matter what sex you are when dealing with matter of universal importance? (It shouldn’t.. Silly, petty humans..): The Huffington Post – Women’s UFO Symposium Takes On ET Hunters’ ‘Old Boys Club’
- Well, we aren’t really using most of it for anything *useful*, so where’s the problem?: The Huffington Post – South Africa UFO Convention Theory: ETs Raid Earth For Gold
- Heat things up:
- Starting cold: a dramatic tale of the dangerous side of thermochemical reactions..: BBC – ‘Brinicle’ ice finger of death
- (EXTRA) Don’t mess around with crap like this!: WISTV/AP – 3 face prison time in special toilet paper scam
- That’s the *newer* version of the traditional tale: corncob pipe replaced with hash pipe, perhaps?: The Huffington Post – ‘Frosty The Snowman’ Arrested: Kevin Michael Walsh Allegedly Fought With Police
- It seems like the fusion power dreams are heating up..: PhysOrg – Canadian firm bids to commercialize fusion reactor
- (EXTRA) Nothing says true love like giving half of a pair of entangled diamonds..: New Scientist – Entangled diamonds blur quantum-classical divide
- Well, that seems efficient..: Gizmodo – Did A Swedish Man Spontaneously Combust in Gothenburg Train Station?
- Stranger yet: it was a eunuch convention..: BBC – India: Delhi eunuch fire death toll increases
- Too soon? It seemed like such a hot topic just a minute ago..: The Huffington Post – UK’s Durham Crematorium May Sell Body Heat To Great Britain’s National Grid
- Oh great: their idea of taking on hardship is a (once-) normal Maritime tradition..: BBC – South Korea’s Lee Myung-bak dons thermal pants to save power
- Robots are now *actual* overlords! (This *can’t* go wrong…): BBC – Robotic prison wardens to patrol South Korean prison
- It melts (in?) your mouth..: Metro – UK’s hottest cheese revealed: The Scotch Bonnet Cheddar
- Probably the school with the best (and most demanding!) extra-curricular activites..: Orange – Bawding school for sex students
- Beyond This Earth:
- (EXTRA) About time to start these rumours again, right?: Fox News Latino/AP – Mexico Admits To Second Mayan 2012 End-of-World Reference
- (EXTRA) The thing is: can you prove that it *wasn’t* a ghost? Who has the burden of proof?: WKBN/AP – Ohio man claims ghostly presence as trial defense
- (EXTRA) Not included: being annoyed. (Phew!): io9 – 10 Bodily Functions That Continue After Death
- (EXTRA) The obvious problem is: where do the atheists go? (Can you honestly say that the psychiatrists are the functional equivalent?): Orange – Stone circle for pagan recruits
- (EXTRA) The real discovery: it was part of a lot of other stone gatherings and pits. Not new: sun worship at Stonehenge..: BBC – Archaeologists make new Stonehenge ‘sun worship’ find
- (EXTRA) I guess this spontaneous, uncharged, grandious public art project is.. a problem?: The Irish Independent – ‘Anglo Avenger’ ordered by court to halt Achill Stonehenge
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) Silly rabbit! Mists are for kids! … (What?): New Scientist – 3D rabbit appears on screen made of mist
- (EXTRA) When you gotta go, does it really need to involve a *game*?: BBC – Toilet gaming technology targets urinal boredom
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