CQ: Most are horrified, embarrassed and disturbed by our bodies; is that a good thing? If so, why? If not, how do we change it?

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On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Zombie See, Zombie Eww
• Plain Normal Strange
• Hope, Technically
• Extras

Full list of 54 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • Or rather, confirm the existence of the lack of person smell in old people,: CNN – Scientists confirm existence of ‘old person smell’
  • To be clear: the uncle was *not* dead at the time the photo was taken. : Fox News – Boy finds decades-old photo of dead uncle inside camera at yard sale
  • (EXTRA) Deceptive: it turns out he (they?) is (are?) hermaphroditic, so it’s not exactly a total basic health ed learning failure..: ABC News – Man Admitted to Hospital for Kidney Stone, Discovers He’s a Woman
  • It really makes me want to spend more time outdoors, but I suppose I’d have to take off my headphones..: io9 – More videos of unexplained “apocalypse sounds” roaring out of nowhere
  • A year later, and we might finally visit the Millenium Falcon of the sea!: Fox News – The truth is out there about UFO in Baltic Sea, Swedish scientists say
• Zombie See, Zombie Eww:
  • While I feel like I left a bit of my heart behind in Maryland, I’m pretty sure that was a metaphor..: Dateline News – Zombie Apocalypse Continues: Man Ate Roommate’s Heart and Brain in Maryland (Photo)
  • “Where does that even start to get fun?” — Jayne (paraphrased): The Palm Beach Post/The Miami Herald – Miami police shoot, kill naked man who was ‘eating’ face of another man
  • As the story evolves, it also devolves..: BBC – Miami’s ‘growling cannibal’ named as Rudy Eugene, 31
  • I’d rather see the words “unheard of” instead of “extremely rare”, to be properly relaxed.: WPTV/Palm Beach Post – Miami ‘zombie-like’ face-eating attack: Eating flesh ‘extremely rare,’ experts suspect mix of drugs
  • There’s nothing like blaming the messenger.. Except maybe declaring that all messengers are at fault, as it all of society, everywhere..: Cracked.com – 4 Ways the Face-Eater Zombie Craze Proves the Media’s Broken
  • Technically, it’s not illegal: “there is no law against cannibalism in [Japan]“.: The Huffington Post – Mao Sugiyama Cooks, Serves Own Genitals At Banquet In Tokyo (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
  • Surprisingly, threatening this guy with violence, pain and irritation wasn’t a very good deterrent..: The Huffington Post – Wayne Carter Threw Intestines At Officers After Stabbing Himself, Police Say
  • Now *that’s* an “overshare”!: Dateline News – Man Stabbed Himself and Threw Intestines at Police in New Jersey
  • I’m just wondering how no one noticed it along the way. Good packing!: BBC – Canada police find second body part in post
  • We have fewer incidents in Canada, but I’m starting to think that we are just concentrating them into terrible “quality” over “quantity”.: National Post – Luka Rocco Magnotta video allegedly shows body parts suspect dismembering victim
  • Too soon?: BBC – Runners to be chased by ‘zombies’ in Lincolnshire 5k race
  • Has the infection/infestation jumped across the pond? (No..): Orange – Zombie movie sparks police call out
  • Assembling the timeline of the Apocalypse in realtime?: Gawker – Grab Your Boomstick: The Zombie Apocalypse May Actually Be Upon Us
  • In a thoroughly modern twist, there is a Tumblr blog about it.: I Hope Rick Santorum – Zombie apocalypse coming soon
  • Which is more disturbing: that they had to say it, or that it had to be said?: The Huffington Post – Zombie Apocalypse: CDC Denies Existence Of Zombies Despite Cannibal Incidents
  • (EXTRA) I’m wondering now if this fits under “human byproducts” that are likely to be more closely examined now..: Orange – Salts harvested from human tears
  • (EXTRA) … and then there was the *other* coast. It’s starting to sound like a bad horror movie script: “Wait — you got *3* different apocolypses happening at the same time! Make up your mind! Stick to one!”: New Scientist – Tuna carry Fukushima radiation to California
  • (EXTRA) Why not? Aren’t we good enough? It’s not like I got a gammy leg!: PhysOrg – Aliens don’t want to eat us, says former SETI director
  • (EXTRA) Ah, but what if was the child of Satan? Is it ok to have an abortion *then*?: Fox News – ‘Exorcist’ author to sue Georgetown after Sebelius visit
• Plain Normal Strange:
  • Astronomers are like mathematicians of space. Or maybe accountants.. Need something to balance the space-books? Invent a planet to weigh just enough!: The Huffington Post – ‘Planet X?’ Odd Orbits In Solar System May Mean Unseen Object, Astronomer Conjectures
  • (EXTRA) Just what kind of bait do you need for that?: Orange – Cleaning fairy breaks into house
  • (EXTRA) I sense a fairy war going on..: The Zim Diaspora – Goblins attacks family, burn down homestead
  • And it burns, burns, burns..: The Huffington Post/AP – Centralia, Pennsylvania Fire Still Burns Underneath Town, 50 Years On (PHOTOS/VIDEO)
  • There’s nothing more disturbing than violent principled ignorance..: Nature – Anarchists attack science
  • (EXTRA) The whole snake-handling thing should have been put out to pastor a long time ago..: The Register-Herald – Details begin to emerge on pastor’s snake bite death
  • I’m thinking it’s an amendment along the lines of “we screwed up! We left out the 0th law: suffer no intolerance”.: The UK Daily Mail – Seized from smugglers, the leather-bound ‘gospel’ which Iran claims will bring down Christianity and shake world politics
  • (EXTRA) “Ossiffer, am I *GLAD* to see ya! You’ll never guess the hic! hic! hitchhikers I picked up!”: The Sydney Morning Herald – Flock horror: drink-driver to police – ‘Can I tell you something? There are sheep in the boot’
  • (EXTRA) “Have you seen a guy with sheep in his car? I’m following him!”: Time – Drunk Man Arrested with a Zebra and a Parrot in Car
  • (EXTRA) Personally, I could see nothing “Largefootum Possibilicus” in the low-res video included within a low res video..: LocalNews8 – High School Students Capture Video Of Possible ‘Bigfoot’
  • (EXTRA) The clearer footage easily shows… something that might be.. a Possible Sasquatch.: Bigfoot Evidence blog – Dr. Jeff Meldrum Suggests Idaho Footage Filmed By Students Looks Like A Sasquatch
  • (EXTRA) Turns out, our cameras may do things a little *too* well, or at least too automatically..: North American Great Ape blog – The difficulties of photographing bigfoot
  • (EXTRA) The real problem is that your camera has lost the trees for the forest..: North American Great Ape blog – Difficulties of photographing bigfoot pt.2
  • (EXTRA) The critical question about evolution is: does it start with a single mutated creature?: The UK Telegraph – Mystery of the one-in-a-million ‘Frankenstein fish’
  • (EXTRA) Real science isn’t about investigating in the field, it’s about declaring things impossible from a distance..: Smithsonian – A Dinosaur Expedition Doomed From the Start
• Hope, Technically:
  • (EXTRA) I suspect bacon-flavoured bicycles.. Or a superhero!: The Sydney Morning Herald – Stray dog becomes a sensation in China after following cyclists for more than 1600 kilometres over 20 days
  • (EXTRA) Dog did it first.: The Sydney Morning Herald – Driverless cars follow each other on freeway
  • (EXTRA) Ok, finally we’re one-upping the dog..: New Scientist – Go for a jog with a helicopter drone
  • (EXTRA) It’s like Tesla shared a lab with Da Vinci..: New Scientist – UAVs fly wireless power to remote locations
  • (EXTRA) Oh, is *that* all it takes to be called a genius these days? Sheesh!: The Huffington Post – Shourryya Ray, 16-Year-Old German Student, Dubbed ‘Genius’ For Cracking 350-Year-Old Isaac Newton Puzzle
  • (EXTRA) What is “put it in my budget planning”, Alex?: PhysicsWorld – How to make a material that shrinks when stretched
  • (EXTRA) Science is cool. Rainbows are cool. Science: how do they work?: BBC – ‘Cloaking’ idea traps a rainbow
  • (EXTRA) Apparently, we have forgotten how to make some things very well in the last 80 years..: The UK Daily Mail – Neon light left on for 77 years discovered during renovation of landmark restaurant (but who’s paying the $17,000 electric bill?)
  • (EXTRA) Oh yeah? You don’t want me to touch your stuff? Why don’t you come up here and make me?: Wired – Keep Out: NASA Asks Future Moon Visitors to Respect Its Stuff
  • (EXTRA) Yeah, but they are those larger, knock-off blocks that don’t quite fit together or make as much cool stuff..: BBC – Mars ‘has life’s building blocks’
  • (EXTRA) It shows “relative time”, like the time I’ve wasted writing stupid comments like this one.: STV – Clock with no hands or numbers which ‘eats time’ has gone on display
  • (EXTRA) Really? You *started* with that? Not even making a pretence of “Shakespeare on a Strand” or “Core of all knowledge on a Chromosome”?: IT World – Does this mean someday we’ll be able to store digital porn in our DNA?
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) Like urinating in the middle of the night, those Ps aren’t silent.: Orange – Taking the P to deter cold callers
  • (EXTRA) Yeah, but then we’ll reinvent it again..: MSNBC – Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history
  • (EXTRA) Surprise! A community of people can give you support, even when online! (News?): Nine MSN – Dying man finds support on World of Warcraft

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