NOTE: This is the full version of the show, which contains at least 20 minutes that didn’t make it on the radio! 🙂

On the show this week:

• Front Page
• No Closure for Disclosure
• Sensory Deception
• If You Build It
• Extras

PROMO: Walk The Fire Volume 2: Kickstarter – A shared-world SF anthology! Go listen to the entire first volume, then support the second being made!

PROMO: Nutty Bites – A fun podcast filled with awesome — including the ever-popular Nutty Debates! Nutty tells me there is going to be a live debate at Balticon this year, as well!

CQ: Name a single fiction — whether a novel, a TV series, a movie, a play, whatever — which has made a profound change and inspiration in your life — and tell us why it should inspire others.

Full list of 36 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • Add to resume: window dressing..: Metro – Danish jobseekers put themselves in the shop window
  • Showing compassion to the underclass? Unthinkable!: Metro – Best school ever? Teachers give students day off to enjoy ‘Sun Day’
  • Suddenly, everywhere the child wants to go has to be near a tube station..: Metro – Baby born on underground gets free travel for life
  • It seems to me that, despite all limits that might exist, those who wish to do war will manage just fine..: ParaPolitical – The Limits of Interstellar War
• No Closure for Disclosure:
  • It seems strange that anyone would assume this is somehow an American “problem” to begin with..: Open Minds – UFOs in Chile, France and Russia — Citizen Hearing Transcripts
  • Gee, it’s too bad they can’t find any credible witnesses — aside from all the credible ones, that is..: The Epoch Times – Over 900 British Police Have Witnessed UFOs
  • The full 5-day digested summary.: The Huffington Post – Citizen Hearing On Disclosure: Pilots Testify To UFO Encounters (Live Updates Day 5)
  • … and just what did they think of it all? Generally, impressed.: Open Minds – Former congress members impressed with UFO testimony
  • One of the presenters laments that they didn’t convince one of the representatives..: A Different Perspective – Citizen Hearing and Merrill Cook
  • Sometimes, it can appear that “Uncle Stan” tries to be a substitute for everyone, but I’ve always found it frustrating when getting people to express themselves, too..: High Strangeness blog – OMG! Citizen Hearing on Disclosure — Part 2
  • It’s difficult to tell if he’s lampooning the critics or the show!: Herald-Tribune – Pass the popcorn
  • 25 signs someone is either disinforming you – or being a troll on the Internet..: Ghost Theory – Dis-Information
• Sensory Deception:
  • When will we stop bothering to call them “phones”?: New Scientist – App turns smartphone sensors into weather stations
  • Forget the zombie runs! *This* is the way you get in shape — and make a little money, too!: Who Forted – Monster Bait Needed: Group Offers Top Dollar to Human Bait in Chupacabra Hunt
  • I’m going to guess, “no” — but they might “perceive” them.: Smithsonian – Do Blind People See Ghosts?
  • So… bigfoot sounds like an angry drunk, does he?: Bigfoot Evidence – Listen Carefully: Sierra Sounds (1975) vs Ontario Sounds (2013)
  • (EXTRA) Unfortunately, no one knows who replaced all the visible orbs with numbers, in every photograph..: io9 – Archaeologists Uncover Hundreds of Mysterious Orbs in Ancient Temple
  • (EXTRA) This article describes them as made of “clay”, not metal.: The UK Daily Mail – Mystery of the Mexican ‘goldenballs’ cave: Scientists baffled by hundreds of spheres found in hidden tunnels
  • (EXTRA) Or, at least some rocks with a poorly-worded paper have been found..: MIT Technology Review – First Tunguska Meteorite Fragments Discovered
  • (EXTRA) It’s not exactly the “peer review” that papers normally go through, but it works in this case!: Sattrackcam Leiden Station Blog – No, fragments of the Tunguska object have not been found – or at least there is no real positive proof of that
  • Surprisingly *not* a mistranslation..: Metro – Fancy a cheese-and-onion flavour chocolate bar?
  • Yeah, but is it deep-fried?: Orange – Restaurant offers cancer – with chips
  • I wonder if all language conventions are really misspellings and mondegreens from the original language..: New Scientist – European and Asian languages have one mother tongue
  • (EXTRA) Uh, I’m not sure my router can float, let alone battle aquatic cryptids..: The Guardian – Has the internet killed the Loch Ness monster?
  • (EXTRA) She doesn’t look a day over hundreds of years old!: Yahoo!/Best of Great Britain – Look for Loch Ness Monster as Nessie Craze Turns 80
  • (EXTRA) … and now the Internet has done exactly the opposite of killing someone!: Bubble World Service – Twitter Verifies Bigfoot Account
  • (EXTRA) Should we be less disociated from death so that we recognize the transformations it makes to bodies?: Stuff.co.nz – NZ ‘sea monster’ carcass whips up overseas media
• If You Build It:
  • It’s what could be the most exciting job in the solar system — although it might turn out to be a dead-end job. Is it still worth it?: Orange – Thousands apply to settle on Mars
  • Have no doubt: Mars will kill us. So did every other new place we discovered, of course..: New Scientist – Toxic Mars dust could hamper planned human missions
  • (EXTRA) Forget fingerprints — we can now identify you by recreating your whole head!: Orange – Sculptures created from discarded DNA
  • Maybe just in time for a trip to Mars?: New Scientist – Turning Star Trek’s medical tricorder into reality
  • Discovery antigravity would give a whole new meaning to “enlightenment”..: BBC – Antigravity gets first test at Cern’s Alpha experiment
  • (EXTRA) I have a bad feeling about this..: New Scientist – Sticky-footed robot gets high using hot plastic
  • Really, all these problems start with knowledge, which might explain the real reason that education isn’t as good as it could be..: New Scientist – 3D-printed gun’s first shots spark calls for ban
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) This story was made of Internet.: Metro – Japanese firm dresses cats like sushi in cute photo collection
  • (EXTRA) It’s always better when you don’t have to clean up after things, and can just visit..: Metro – Cat caf? in London moves a step closer as thousands wait to be first through the door

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