It’s a return, and a big one! This is a yearly wrap-up episode, looking back over the 1100 stories I covered this year. There will be a second episodes, because I only covered about a quarter of the articles I meant to.
Thank you for your patience. My life is still disrupted, and will remain so for quite some time to come, but I have always considered doing TWS one of my most favourite things.
CQ: The DIY movement, combined with the ease at which anyone can get a global speaking platform, seems like a hotbed of growth. What one innovation — be it in technology, the arts, economics or politics — will really mark the year 2013? And what was your favourite or the most important of 2013?
On the show this week:
- ApocEclipsed
- ApocEclipsed (again)
Full list of 41 articles after the jump!
- ApocEclipsed:
- : The Times of India – Master computer controls universe?
- : RT – (O) Warehouse fianc?: US woman to ‘gay-marry’ historical building
- : The Secret Sun blog – (O) We Interupt this Singularity…
- : New Scientist – (O) Maya astronomical tables found daubed on wall
- : The Huffington Post – (O) Dominic Deville, An Evil Birthday Clown, Stalks Your Child For A Fee
- : NEWS of the WEIRD – (O) NO LONGER WEIRD
- : Iceland Review – (O) Icelandic Elf School Principal Concerned for MP’s Health
- (EXTRA) : The UK Daily Mail – (O) Seized from smugglers, the leather-bound ‘gospel’ which Iran claims will bring down Christianity and shake world politics
- : io9 – (O) How do we know time travelers aren’t constantly changing the past?
- : The UK Telegraph – (O) Not enough hours in the day? Scientists predict time will stop completely
- (EXTRA) : The Vancouver Sun – (O) Thirty-ton book collection set to be burned in Saskatoon
- : Yahoo!/AFP – (O) UN declares a day of universal joy
- (EXTRA) : PhysOrg – (O) Maya archaeologists unearth new 2012 monument
- : BBC – (O) No evidence of mermaids, says US government
- : Metro – (O) ‘Avoid weird Scottish sausages’ Japanese tour guide warns visitors
- : The UK Telegraph – (O) Netherlands councillors call for fines for wrong weather forecasts
- (EXTRA) : Brain Pickings – (O) The Probability That You Are Dreaming Right Now? 1 in 10.
- : Popular Mechanics – 110 Predictions For the Next 110 Years
- (EXTRA) : io9 – (O) Technologies that we’ve lost — and the quest to find them again
- (EXTRA) : Gizmodo – (O) How a British Florist Solved the Mystery of the Coming Apocalypse
- (EXTRA) : BBC – (O) Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism
- (EXTRA) : Triumph of a Man Called Da-Da – (O) Higher Weirdness (or, “Shut Up, Nostradamus”)
- (EXTRA) : Texas Ghosts – (O) Strange sounds around the world , most logical explanation
- (EXTRA) : Doubtful Newsblog – (O) Sounds from the sky: Reflections on historical observations and recent events
- (EXTRA) : BBC – (O) Ten 100-year predictions that came true
- (EXTRA) : io9 – (O) What are these bizarre sounds coming from the sky in countries from Hungary to Canada?
- (EXTRA) : Who Forted? – (O) It Came From Above (Or Did It?): Solving the “Sky Noise” Mystery
- (EXTRA) : Orange – (O) Star Trek fan to lose life’s work
- (EXTRA) : Reuters – (O) Subculture of Americans prepares for civilization’s collapse
- (EXTRA) : Free Malaysia Today – (O) Mystery of strange sound solved
- (EXTRA) : Fox News – (O) Cashing in on the ‘end of the world’ tourism
- (EXTRA) : MovieViral – (O) Strange Noises Heard Around The World Could Have Scientific Explanation
- (EXTRA) : Death By 1000 Papercuts blog – (O) Incredibly Creepy Noise in the Sky in Denmark, January 10, 2012 — Video
- (EXTRA) : UFO Disclosure Countdown Clock – (O) OMG – The Sky Sound Phenomena Continues In 2012 – Costa Rica TV Report
- (EXTRA) : New Scientist – (O) Mystery booms: The source of a worldwide sonic enigma
- (EXTRA) : Weird Australia – (O) Mysterious sky sounds baffled early explorers too
- (EXTRA) : The Borneo Post – (O) Rumble in the sky over Samarahan
- (EXTRA) : The Huffington Post – (O) Weird Noise: Strange Sounds Popping Up In Different Parts Of Canada
- (EXTRA) : Novinky.cz – (O) Unknown sound coming from the country scaring people around the world [Google Translated]
- (EXTRA) : ABC – (O) Mysterious ‘Hum’ Only Canadians Can Hear Is Debated
- (EXTRA) : The UK Guardian/The Northerner Blog – (O) Sonic boom shakes north east – eyewitness account
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