TWS228: By The Care of My China-Chin-Chin!
CQ: Are we in danger of being the generation that never grew up? Or are we just the generation that never grew old?
Promo: Technorama (technorama.com) – a weekly geekly.
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- The Bend Of Life
- Beards, Beasts and Politics
- Extras
Full list of 46 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- Oh, to have *that* problem..: Metro – University sues student for graduating too quickly
- Don’t blink, or you’ll miss the devastation it left in its wake.: Sky News HD – Horologists Add A Leap Second
- Eventually, however, she’ll be bitter about toy playing, just in time to become a teenager..: Metro – Best job in the world? Five-year old lands dream job as toy tester
- Also possibly a “best job in the world” contender..: Metro – Champion eater ‘Jaws’ scoffs his way to victory at Hot Dog Eating Contest
- (EXTRA) Capable of everything except _repairing the car_, apparently..: Orange – How extreme mechanic survived desert
- More evidence that we are the generation that will never grow up..: Orange – Daredevils take on life size Hot Wheels
- Who knew that technology might enable mysticism?: Boing Boing – Soviet synthesizer bridged occultism and electronic music
- Yeah, but if your urinal is talking to you, aren’t you already convinced you’re too drunk?: Orange – Talking urinals warn drink drivers
- So what if it’s all in your mind? That’s the _point_ here..: New Scientist – Ouija board helps psychologists probe the subconscious
- Aren’t we all split personalities?: New Scientist – Split personality crime: who is guilty?
- Generally good advice (unless they are talking about haggis)..: Metro – ‘Avoid weird Scottish sausages’ Japanese tour guide warns visitors
- The Bend Of Life:
- Yes! Maybe… Most likely! Something something something percent change.: BBC – Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC
- It’s right there, to the left of the Higgs Boson..: New Scientist – Dark matter underpinnings of cosmic web found
- At one time, it was declared that such an explanation was preposterous and unscientific. Thank you, Charles Fort!: This is Plymouth/Plymouth Herald – Plymouth is cleaning up after tonnes of Saharan sand were dumped on city
- Classical explanation: “Well, they must be mistaken. It was probably just someone dumping paint on a single person.”: The Times of India – Morning shower paints rural Kannur red
- This one specifically points out that “apocolypses” are really supposed to be pronounced “a-politics-es”..: PhysOrg – Maya archaeologists unearth new 2012 monument
- Out of devastation comes opportunity?: The UK Daily Mail – Detroit to be hit by flesh and brain-eating zombie apocalypse (but only if live-action terror theme park plan is pushed through)
- It just begs the question: are zombie theme parks going to get a little *too* real?: Chinasmack – Drunk Chinese Man Tackles & Bites Woman’s Face in Wenzhou
- Make sure I’m good ‘n dead if you’re going to throw me overboard, k?: BBC – Bone-eating ‘zombie’ worms drill with acid
- What has been seen, cannot be unseen (unless you pluck it outta yer eye!).: Incredipedia – Doctor pulls 5 inches live worm from man’s eye
- (EXTRA) Hmm.. before the flood, Britain wasn’t an island?: The UK Daily Mail – ‘Britain’s Atlantis’ found at bottom of North sea – a huge undersea world swallowed by the sea in 6500BC
- (EXTRA) Not so much alien landing sites as much as alien planting sites?: LiveScience – Mysterious African ‘Fairy Circles’ Stump Scientists
- For all those who think that “we made it all up in the modern day” — think again!: Mysterious Universe – The Mowing Devil Mystery
- I promise to wait, but you better hurry up!: The Daily Grail – SETI Scientist: We’ll Find E.T By 2036
- (EXTRA) Only crazy people believe in things like UFOs.. Or black holes..: Mysterious Universe – Hardly, Hawking: Physicist Relegates UFOs to the Lunatic Fringe
- It’s more likely to get an Earth-borne infestation than anything alien. (STOP WATCHING INDEPENDENCE DAY!): io9 – Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?
- Now we know we are completely doomed.: Yahoo!/AFP – UN declares a day of universal joy
- Beards, Beasts and Politics:
- (EXTRA) Does China hold strange hairy people?: The Sydney Morning Herald/The London Telegraph – Quest to find the Wild Man
- Of course, ancient people were a lot hairier in *general*..: Bigfoot Evidence blog – Centuries Old Pictograph Of “Hairy Man” From Central California
- (EXTRA) Are we out of touch with the natural world?: BoingBoing/Reuters – Shamans of the modern age
- (EXTRA) Change your definition of “building” and “life”..: New Scientist/CultureLab – Artificially alive artwork tantalises and surprises
- (EXTRA) It’s all feathers, all the way down, man..: Boing Boing – Stunning feathered dinosaur fossil
- (EXTRA) Apparently, _2_ inquiries is enough to issue a national statement on mermaids..: BBC – No evidence of mermaids, says US government
- (EXTRA) Now if only it was smaller than an fMRI machine..: New Scientist – Robot avatar body controlled by thought alone
- (EXTRA) Yes.. and we will find out that they’ve been telling us dirty jokes all this time.. (Thank you, David Brin.): io9 – Will we ever learn to speak dolphin?
- (EXTRA) After all, isn’t it enough that you’ll get savings on your soul?: PennLive/The Patriot-News – Atheist files complaint over Lancaster County restaurant’s church-bulletin discount
- (EXTRA) Not in general, although that might be arguable.. But here, it’s a particular theft.: CBS Denver – Satanists Claim Theft Is Hate Crime
- (EXTRA) Neglect is probably also a hate crime. (“Thou shalt not leave thy crap behind in public.”): STV – 150-year-old bible worth L1000 found lying on city centre bench
- (EXTRA) Not so much a protest as a pretence..: Metro – Panda-monium as pandas invade London Underground
- China may not hold hairy men, but apparently France has bearded women..: BBC – La Barbe: France’s bearded feminists
- (EXTRA) He was gettin’ all jiggy wit’ it. Also: he dances like a metal-spring stuffed monkey..: Orange – Minister bursts into song on TV
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) It’s only haunted by the ghost of Economics..: BBC – On board a real-life ‘ghost train’
- (EXTRA) I suspect that it will be sued for copyright infringement.: The UK Daily Mail – What a MARVEL! The blue and red lizard with a striking resemblance to comic book superhero Spider-Man
- (EXTRA) So, can he sue the makers of porn pop-ups for damages?: ABC News – Man Plagued by Porn-Induced Headaches
- (EXTRA) It makes for rigid bacon and tougher pork chops, though..: Huffington Post – Picture Of The Day: Hypnotised Pig
- (EXTRA) I’m sure they buried him well underground.. With a lot of hot coals and mesquite wood. Party later!: Metro – One-tonne King Pig laid to rest during funeral service in China
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