TWS226: Living Long Enough To Live For Never

CQ: Is it better to employ a human in a job that can be replaced by a machine — or should we always ensure there are repetitive, simple, physical jobs for the vast majority of “average” people?

Kakophonos Internet Radio – an esoteric and metaphysically-flavoured podcast; this month, featuring inspiring music of otherworldly inspiration

Tales From the Archives 2 – A delightful collection of steampunk stories in support of the excellent book series The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. The latest book in the series debuted last month: The Janus Affair. Check it out!

On the show this week:

• Feedback
• Front Page
• Who Wants To See Forever?
• Wenting Places
• Extras

Full list of 52 articles after the jump!

• Feedback:
  • : Cracked.com – 5 Scientific Ways the Internet is Dividing Us
• Front Page:
  • Does your resume include: shambling; incoherent groaning; tempted by consumption of flesh? Then we may have the position for you! (Or you may want to get medical help..): Orange – Job opportunities for zombies
  • Umm.. I don’t think that’s what they meant.. (Clever!): The Huffington Post – Newspaper Publishes Entire Front Page In Binary Code To Celebrate ‘Going Digital’
  • A victory for consumers who say they’ve been tricked, or a victory for advertisers who get to show just how easily people are fooled?: Orange – McDonald’s admits burger tricks
  • Let’s face it: they’re just baiting for a children’s/animated movie..: Metro – Millie the cat gets job guarding children’s presents
  • Finally, these criminals are.. wait.. what?: The Huffington Post – Durrell Brooks Sentenced To Three Days In Ohio Jail for Sagging Pants
  • Would that this were a general problem..: Yahoo!/7News Queensland – Cops called on student who won’t stop studying
  • A tragedy, or just a sign of the times? : The Vancouver Sun – Thirty-ton book collection set to be burned in Saskatoon
  • They perhaps are more used to the scientific term “hoohoo”..: Michigan Radio – Women Reps in Michigan barred from speaking, one for “vagina” mention
  • That is the way the world works: small pebbles leaves big ripples in the water of modern communication..: The Detroit News – Rep. Lisa Brown amazed ‘one little floor speech’ ends in vagina rally
  • (EXTRA) Ah, so there *are* still innocent parts of the world..: Dangerous Minds – Chinese villagers discover ‘rare mushroom’ but it turns out to be a rubber vagina
  • A spoonful of sugar helps the medycyna go down — or does learning have to be un-fun?: Orange – Row over saucy language school
  • I guess the savings were “100% off”?: Orange – Naked shoppers storm supermarket
  • (EXTRA) In fact, it seems that everyone sees *everything*! But most a) dismiss it because that’s what they’ve been told is “right” to do; b) keep it to themselves to avoid inappropriate stigma; c) report it, and are ignored.: The Oz Files – PAY ATTENTION SCIENCE, SKEPTICS AND MEDIA, ASTRONOMERS DO SEE UFOs
  • (EXTRA) More like a UTO: Unidentified Towed Object.: WTOP – UFO on the Beltway? Not quite
• Who Wants To See Forever?:
  • This explains why I never have time to linger over anything these days: it’s all rush, rush, rush!: The UK Telegraph – Not enough hours in the day? Scientists predict time will stop completely
  • If you had forever, would you squander today?: New Scientist – The wasteful quest for immortality
  • Do those that see things differently actually see things that others don’t?: Science Daily – Synesthesia May Explain Healers Claims of Seeing People’s ‘Aura’
  • Finally! Someone who might be able to tell me the difference between emerald and cyan!: Metro – Woman found with superhuman sight which lets her see 99m more colours
  • This is why I never took up self-hypnosis.. Either that, or I still am taking it up.. right now..: RT – Hypno no-no: Schoolgirls trapped in hypnosis by attractive rookie artist
  • (EXTRA) Music to soothe the savage pork.. Or maybe make it more savage..: Ipwich Star – Woodbridge: Farmers claim playing music to their pigs helps them grow
  • (EXTRA) Note to self: when time travel invented, be sure to mess around with some rocks. The universe might depend on it!: io9 – Life on Earth might never have happened without some well-placed rocks
  • There’s “complete death” and “death that makes a difference”, perhaps…: LiveScience – Living Stem Cells Discovered in 17-Day-Old Human Corpses
  • I said it similarly before: we (humans) are continents unto ourselves. No man is an island? *All* men (and women) are isands!: The New York Times – In Good Health? Thank Your 100 Trillion Bacteria
  • (EXTRA) What this really argues for is: make sure your food is cooked (and identified) before eating it!: The UK Daily Mail – Woman, 63, ‘becomes PREGNANT in the mouth’ with baby squid after eating calamari
  • (EXTRA) Well, if you have to pick a time to get fossilized, that might be a good one!: BBC – Turtles fossilised in sex embrace
  • Is mankind rapidly reaching obsolescense?: PC Mag – Robot ‘Skin’ Built With Touch Superior to Humans
  • Misrepresentation and mockery are easy to do; *real* thinking requires respect for ideas, especially those you may or may not agree with..: FRED Talks/YouTube – FRED: Understanding the Universe Through Cryptozoology
• Wenting Places:
  • (EXTRA) Like all things, the beginnings are humble and completely unappreciated for anything other than “FRIST POST!”: BBC – Red dot becomes ‘oldest cave art’
  • (EXTRA) While my usual response is “just because you did it that way doesn’t prove that they did”, this one is pretty compelling as it apparently lines up with local legends of how the statues “walked”.: Huffington Post – Easter Island Statues: New Theory Explains How Rapa Nui Moai Were Moved (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
  • (EXTRA) I *totally* blame the dismal outcome on a lack of available RAM.. After all, world peace takes *lots* of memory!: Orange – Gamer plays Civilization for a decade
  • (EXTRA) This ain’t exactly Google maps, tho: you still need to trudge through the jungle to get the idol, although there might be few Nazis these days..: The UK Daily Mail – Scientists ‘discover’ legendary lost White City of gold in dense Central American jungle thanks to advanced laser mapping
  • (EXTRA) Should a place of “eternal rest” really be a practical place of “current rest”?: Yahoo!/AFP – Grave concern: Widow moves into hubbie’s tomb
  • (EXTRA) What do we know about what lies beneath or within? Should we venture further?: NPIEE – North Pole Inner Earth Expedition: Introduction
  • (EXTRA) While not the Millenium Falcon, it is, perhaps, the “Millenium Rock”..: Fox News – Swedish scientists reveal findings of deep-sea ‘alien’ hunt
  • (EXTRA) Is it just me, or does it look more and more like a meteor?: Ocean Explorer – Ocean Explorer: 15/6/2012, PRESS RELEASE
  • (EXTRA) In the same way, perhaps that “Christmas” is “that stolen pagan holiday”..: The UK Telegraph – Summer solstice: Stonehenge was actually for ‘Stone Age Christmas’
  • (EXTRA) If Stone Henge was for “Stone Age Christmas”, is “Car Henge” for “All Fool’s Day”?: Orange – Car-henge unveiled in London
  • (EXTRA) Symbol clashes? I can’t think of any context tieing rabbits to war and peace, aside from “Make Love, Not War”, and I don’t think that’s what they meant..: 7News WHDH – Rabbit display in Dedham causes controversy
  • (EXTRA) It is on its way to being the first man-made thing to leave our solar system — here’s to hoping it’s not the *last*..: BBC – Particles point way for Nasa’s Voyager
  • (EXTRA) They’re just doing that because V’ger is too slow..: OpenMinds – NatGeo sending messages to extraterrestrials
  • (EXTRA) If this theory is true, then our universe is neither the first, nor the last. Does that mean that, ultimately, we *cannot* survive the universe?: The UK Daily Mail – Does this picture show the ‘ghost’ of a universe that existed before the Big Bang?
  • (EXTRA) It makes me wonder how much we are mucking up a parallel universe with our random tests..: io9 – Are neutrons traveling between parallel worlds?
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) “This is an invisible fraud,” they suggest. Perhaps even indistinguishable..: Yahoo!/Reuters – Hebrew National hot dogs not kosher, lawsuit claims
  • (EXTRA) Take less than half of what you read on the Internet seriously, and considerably less than a quarter of that again should you believe.: BBC – ‘God can heal’ Christian website claim allowed by ASA
  • (EXTRA) Looks more like Cthulhu spawn to me, but I suppose we all have our symbol biases..: CFZ Canada – Holy Sea Creature, Batman?
  • (EXTRA) I’m not so sure I attribute this to social intelligence so much as simple “there’s animal noise, and where there is animal noise, there is food” simple reasoning..: BBC – Japanese deer ‘eavesdrop’ on monkeys for food
  • (EXTRA) Expect the Air Force to equip it’s planes with this technology soon, so they can park planes on the side of a building.: The Huffington Post – Personal Vacuum Assisted Climber: Spider-Man Backpack Utah Students Invented Picked Up By Air Force
  • (EXTRA) It’s hard to be the anonymous mystery when the Internet exists..: The UK Guardian – Mystery ‘forest boy’ identified as Dutch runaway
  • (EXTRA) Not exactly the parenting technique I would recommend.: The Sydney Morning Herald – Enraged father beheads daughter with sword in honour killing
  • (EXTRA) She didn’t cross the line, she cut it..: The UK Daily Mail – Teacher, 35, told students to ‘cut themselves to rid their bodies of demons and then burn the open wounds’
  • (EXTRA) There needs to be a general complaints line. And I need to be as far away from receiving it as possible..: Metro – Picky eater calls 911 to complain about his sandwich order

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