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On the show this week:

• Feedback
• Front Page
• Ye Olde Stuffe
• Extras

Full list of articles after the jump!

• Feedback:
  • Imagine: a public service which *owns* books and *lends* them to people! Unthinkable! Inconceivable!: Boing Boing – Libraries set out to own their ebooks
• Front Page:
  • The truth about several “lies to children” that we can be let in on now..: Stepcase Lifehack – 9 Childhood Rules Best Forgotten by Adults
  • Basically, we got less optimistic and a little more right.: io9 – How our predictions for the Year 2000 changed throughout the 20th Century
  • An old list (2003) about what we already knew too much about..: NEWS of the WEIRD – NO LONGER WEIRD
  • It’s a little like saying, “If you don’t stoppit: BANGZOOM! To the moon, Alice!”: The Japan Times – ‘Population clock’ forecasts no children after year 3011
  • Finally, something we can all agree on. I, for one, encourage us all to create new food packaging out of bread.: BBC – Sandwich celebrates 250th anniversary of the sandwich
  • Let’s face it: social networks kinda smell already..: BBC – Perfume-puffing robot sniffs out social media mentions
  • Really, they just got to the later record far earlier than their opponents, because they moved at the speed of light..: technology review/The Physics arXiv Blog – Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record For Teleportation
• Ye Olde Stuffe:
  • I wrote a card, but it’s all blacked out;: Mysterious Universe – UFOs: MJ12 Reaches 25!
  • Iceland sounds like a very interesting place, and the people might just be gentler than anyone else..: Iceland Review – Icelandic MP Moves Elves’ Boulder to His Home
  • His *physical* health.: Iceland Review – Icelandic Elf School Principal Concerned for MP’s Health
  • I didn’t really know this, but I probably saw it once. The mystery deepens.. into the hole.. which they dug..: ThinkBox – Easter island heads have bodies!??
  • If everything passes away, do we have the requirement — or even the right — to preserve it? Aren’t we just being hoarders?: BBC – Nepal’s mystery language on the verge of extinction
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) It always amuses me to see people building technology now as the “vision of the future” that was predicted or suggested by science fiction decades ago..: New Scientist – Interactive ‘wallpaper’ screens are the future of TV
  • (EXTRA) Would we really expect anyone to consider the evidence more closely if we compound it with another technique which is itself not widely trusted?: Cryptomundo – Is It Time To Revisit Hypnotizing Bigfoot Witnesses?
  • (EXTRA) It makes me wonder if my underwear will be worth something someday..: Orange – ‘Queen’s knickers’ up for grabs on eBay
  • (EXTRA) This just means we could have had rocket sleds earlier.. and that Iron Sky is a documentary.: io9 – Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?

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