TWS208: Not What You Think You See You Know

CQ: Someday, we may gain the ability to stop natural processes like the next Ice Age — but should we?

On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Not What You See
• Not What You Know
• Not Who You Think (Extras)

Full list of 59 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • Revisting the patron secular saint of abnormal observation..: Mysterious Universe – A Foray into Forteana: The Magic and Philosophy of Charles Fort
  • A look back, a look ahead, a perpetual motion of the story..: PESN – Free Energy in 2011 Prepping to Take Off in 2012
  • A story of devotion and a parent getting a little carried away..: Orange – Man quits job to build giant bike for son
  • Human beings can find a way to have fun at *anything*..: Global Post – Volcano boarding: the latest in adventure-tourism
  • As with everything else in China, the scale is *intense*..: The UK Telegraph – City carved out of ice in China
  • Something’s afoot.. I know it always socks when I lose a shoe..: Yahoo!/AFP – Largest Dutch clog goes missing
  • Is it just me, or is the Lord just one of those people you expect to call for free?: Dutch News – Church charges for calls to mobile phone-carrying angel
  • Make enough predictions, you’ll get a few startlingly right.. At least, that’s my prediction..: BBC – Ten 100-year predictions that came true
• Not What You See:
  • Every number is unlucky. Also: every number is lucky.: Huffington Post – Unlucky 39: Cars With Wrong Number In Afghanistan Associated With Prostitution
  • At other places, they serve you crap, but the containers are awesome..: Metro – ‘S***house’ restaurant serves dinners in miniature toilets
  • (EXTRA) Obviously, it’s a spectator sport.: Metro – Watching Paint Dry Championship attracts international interest
  • Infrastructure grows in times of crisis, right?: BBC – Skyscrapers ‘linked with impending financial crashes’
  • How long before we have a Cloud City? (WANT!): Inhabitat – Tiago Barros Designs a Passing Cloud that Lets You Float Through the Sky
  • (EXTRA) It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you..: Yahoo!/The West Australian/AFP – Kim’s death no joke for ‘Dear Leader’ double
  • It would have been a more fascinating case if they were *identical* twins, but that’s sure to come.: Orange – Twins born – five years apart
  • I can see this being added to post-workout energy drinks for SUPERBURN!!!!: New Scientist – Hormone can mimic effects of a good workout
  • Spooky insects at a distance..: The UK Telegraph – Flies walk on air in levitation experiment
  • With deadly undeground leaves, this plant has great unnatural nature.: red Orbit – Scientists Discover New Carnivorous Plant In Brazil
  • (EXTRA) Short answer: no. Longer answer: probably still no.: KPHO – Could it be? Another chupacabra sighting?
  • (EXTRA) So, more looking, or more to look at?: Huffington Post – UFO Sightings Skyrocket Into 2012
  • (EXTRA) This title is a little like saying “air found to be breathable, says air-breather”..: STV – ‘UFO’ video sparks online debate
  • (EXTRA) If only we had invented them.. : The Sydney Morning Herald – Airline pilot startled by flying shark
  • (EXTRA) Soon, we’ll find a galaxy wrapped in a universe, wrapped in cheese: the “El Gordito”..: BBC – ‘El Gordo’ is largest distant galaxy cluster ever seen
  • (EXTRA) It’s pocket-sized!: New Scientist – Smallest exoplanet is the size of Mars
  • How long before we find a “natural” phenomenon that does this? And what happens if we don’t?: The Washington Post – ‘Time cloak’ hid event in experiment, physicists say
  • Given enough time, we’ll discover that everyone lived everywhere, at one point or other..: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Squabble over presence of ancient residents in Blairsville
  • (EXTRA) A case of NIMBY?: ABC/Good Morning America – Mayan Ruins in Georgia? Archaeologist Objects
  • What, you thought that “built on the shoulders of giants” was just a metaphor?: The Atlantic Cities – The Lost City of Cahokia
  • (EXTRA) Am I the only one who things she looks like a 25-year-old?: The UK Daily Mail – She’s never been through puberty or needed a bra: Woman, 25, is trapped in body of a 12-YEAR-OLD
  • (EXTRA) At this point, does he have the tumour, or does the tumour have him?: The UK Mirror – Doctors set to remove Vietnamese man’s massive 138 pound tumour
  • I think she’s a critic.: MSNBC – Cops: Colorado woman punches, rubs her buttocks against $30 million painting
  • Apparently, living a simple life also means endangering others with obstinance..: The UK Telegraph – Amish men jailed over reflective triangle dispute
  • (EXTRA) Do you get a price reduction or a boost for a haunted house?: AFP – Buyers target Hong Kong’s ‘haunted houses’
• Not What You Know:
  • I’m not converting; I’m staying Jedi..: BBC – Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism
  • Not every idea deserves a monument — only the best and the worst.: Orange – Museum of failed inventions opens
  • More evidence in the power of fiction — for good, and for bad.: BBC – James Bond villains blamed for nuclear’s bad image
  • It sounds silly, but try it: you’ll soon discover the power exponential shrinking!: New Scientist – Students break record by folding toilet paper 13 times
  • Pretty soon, they’ll stop experimenting on us humans and admit their higher intelligence and immortality.: MSNBC – Real ‘Benjamin Button’? Stem cells reverse aging in mice
  • All men have left is being handy. And robots are coming soon for that..: The Asian Age – ‘Artificial sperm grown in laboratory’
  • (EXTRA) Someday, we’ll conquer the universe, not with explosive rockets, but with life itself; not with a bang, but with a slimer..: MSNBC – NASA looks at using microbes to power up space robots
  • (EXTRA) This can’t possibly go wrong..: The UK Telegraph – Frankenstein ants created by scientists
  • (EXTRA) It never answers the obvious question: mustard or mayo?: Yahoo!/The Sideshow – Video: Bonobo ape lights campfire, cooks hamburgers
  • Hmm.. tastes like.. space..: Metro – Astronomer creates red wine with a 4.5billion-year vintage
  • We’re putting up a brave e-face..: Medical Xpress – We may be less happy, but our language isn’t
  • (EXTRA) Are we back to the benefits of electroshock therapy?: Nature – Brain electrodes fix depression long term
  • (EXTRA) I wonder if they are inexplicably not depressed about it..: The UK Telegraph – Village where nothing works after electrical signal failures
  • I believe this is the very definition of “mixed blessing”.: BBC – Carbon emissions ‘will defer Ice Age’
  • (EXTRA) No explanations would make sense here.: BBC – Kristy Bamu ‘murdered over witch claim’ in Newham
• Not Who You Think (Extras):
  • (EXTRA) Why does he want to change his name And why won’t they let him?: Yahoo!/AFP – Austrian fights to become Herr Tomahawk
  • (EXTRA) Ok, maybe there are some reasons not to allow name changes..: The Huffington Post – Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop, 30, Arrested By Madison, Wisc. Police
  • (EXTRA) Are names a turn-off?: New Zealand Herald/APNZ – Few clicks for single Kevins or Chantals
  • (EXTRA) The asking price is too high. I mean to say: this is deplorable! (and expensive): The Global Post – Saudi father puts son up for sale on Facebook
  • (EXTRA) Personally, I believe there aren’t enough people on this Earth for me to find my mate, so… I’m considering it.: Metro – Ever fancied a date with ET? Dating app for alien lovers ‘in development’
  • (EXTRA) Ah, the college days, when everyone does stuff a bit whacky..: Wired/Danger Room – White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars
  • (EXTRA) More proof that our minds are not entirely our own, but are suggestible machines..: io9 – How NASA kept astronauts from swearing on the Moon
  • (EXTRA) Ah, the Japanese searching for any reason whatsoever to introduce robots into our everyday lives. More power to ’em!: The UK Telegraph – Japan to open robot farm in tsunami disaster zone
  • (EXTRA) It’s official: Stephen Hawking is now your embarassing grandfather..: Yahoo!/Reuters – Women are a mystery to British physicist Hawking
  • (EXTRA) Mental delusion, or just maybe a sign of parallel dimensions?: Unknown source: – Terrified Woman From Another Universe Wakes Up Here
  • (EXTRA) Back in the day, people used to just disappear without warning or clues. Forthunately, that just doesn’t happen these da–: BBC – Glenn Miller clue found in Reading plane-spotter’s log

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