On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Knowledge is Immaterial
• Bodies are Mental
• Celestial Bodies are Out Of This World
• Extras

CQ: Should basic science be taught without the emphasis on memorizing formulas and instead focus almost entirely on the facts, concepts and relationships — a little more Popular Science and Nova than math textbook?

Full list of 51 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • Luck of the Finnish be with you!: BBC – Celebrating St Urho: American Finns take on St Patrick
  • Some people just don’t want to get their hands dirty..: Your Jewish News – Father seen on video yanking out son’s tooth using a drone
  • He can do whatever he wants, he’s already a hero.: Orange – Singing astronaut becomes ‘Irish ambassador’
  • Are there any sympathetic feelings for sympathetic vibrations?: DNAinfo Chicago – Mysterious Hyde Park Hum Could Be Coming From Chimney, Man Says
  • A treacherous white-water crossing — in a bag!: Orange – The world’s weirdest school run?
  • The Anomolist had it’s own take on this link..: The Anomalist – HEADLINE: Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370: Uri Geller Uses Psychic Powers to Determine Fate of Flight
  • Didn’t need to be a psychic to see that coming..: International Business Times – Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370: Uri Geller Uses Psychic Powers to Determine Fate of Flight
  • Ever fancy eternal life in an underground caern fashioned upon ancient patterns? (Nah, me neither..): BBC – All Cannings ‘Neolithic’ long barrow takes shape
• Knowledge is Immaterial:
  • That’s what your belly-button is for, isn’t it?: New Republic – Your Self Is Located in Your Chest, Says New Study
  • Don’t worry: skeptics will never see this opinion, because it doesn’t line up with their established theory.: io9 – Can Skepticism Blind You to the Truth?
  • Or, hungry crows are clever.: New Scientist – Physics-minded crows bring Aesop’s fable to life
  • Nothing like willfully denying reality to improve it.: Nautilus – The Ancient, Peaceful Art of Self-Generated Hallucination
  • It’s a pretty big job, so they outsourced it to an entire *nation*, apparently.: BBC – Vatican Library to digitise archives with Japanese support
  • It is Wingdings and a bit of clever punning?: The Toronto Star – Baffling coded messages discovered at Western University
  • It’s always the clever ones..: Metro – Clever teenager says he can save US governments £240m by changing font on official documents
  • They’ll laugh, because it will be Montreal tourist air.: Orange – Bottled fresh air goes on sale in China
  • They’re marketing stinks, but so does their competition..: Orange – Scientists develop scent to repel zombies
  • A superb flight of fantasy.: Orange – Video shows how it feels to be Superman
  • Just imagine what you’ll know to do after you’ve had one.: Business Insider – Coming Soon, Maybe: ‘Knowledge Pills’ That You Eat To Automatically Learn Anything
  • Isn’t *everything* somewhat disrespectful these days?: Association of Paranormal Study – Is Modern Day Ghost Hunting & Investigating Disrespectful?
  • (EXTRA) I would think that an exorcism would be a ghost UNfair..: Worldcrunch – Exorcism In India, Where A Ghost Fair Lures Believers
  • Excellent! I now have Christmas plans..: io9 – Haunted Winchester Mystery House to Allow Overnight Stays (and Booze)!
  • (EXTRA) Imagine: a civilization so ancient that you’ve lost parts of it.: LA Times – Bowers exhibition to examine ‘lost’ ancient Chinese civilization
• Bodies are Mental:
  • (EXTRA) Bodily distortion is usually just a plugin on Skype.: Orange – Sellotape selfie craze goes viral online
  • (EXTRA) Did he become unstuck in time? Or just more observant?: International Business Times – Southend Student Emerges from Coma with ‘Psychic Powers’
  • Either that, or a bunch of uninteresting talks.. : New Scientist – Will robots doing TED talks spark an AI breakthrough?
  • As long as they stay away from the wierd news, it’ll be fine..: New Scientist – Rise of robot reporters: when software writes the news
  • (EXTRA) Not much of a disguise, really..: Orange – Scrapyard robots are junk in disguise
  • So long as that’s “wear an image of your friend’s face”, and we don’t have to therefore scream..: New Scientist – Robot can wear your friend’s face and guess your mood
  • (EXTRA) This will definitely lead to the merger of Kijiji and a dating site..: Orange – US student to auction off her virginity
  • (EXTRA) Are the Amish even allowed to wish?: Orange – Amish girl’s unexpected career twist
  • (EXTRA) Some element of sex probably cures all ills, but are you willing to go the distance?: Orange – Grandmother’s beauty secret surprise
  • (EXTRA) As long as he isn’t bound into record books, because that would be crass.: Metro – Man whose body is tattooed in jaguar print re-lists own skin after ‘complying with eBay terms’
  • (EXTRA) When the paper shortage hits, this will be common.: Gawker – This Norwegian Teen Got a McDonald’s Receipt Tattooed on His Arm
  • (EXTRA) Not a weight loss program I can support.: Western Morning News – Man recovering after chopping off own hand then setting it alight
  • (EXTRA) These are the guys whose tombstone epitaphs tend to say something like “Because It Was There”.: Orange – Daredevil walks world’s highest ever wire
  • (EXTRA) Kinda makes the regular smells a bit run-down, don’t it?: New Scientist – Expert nose: we can sniff out over a trillion smells
  • (EXTRA) Do humans? If so, then yes. (Stupid question..): New Scientist – Do animals have a sense of humour?
  • (EXTRA) Imminent clown invasion? Or viral marketing?: NY Daily News – Creepy Staten Island clown spotted around borough, spooks residents
  • (EXTRA) Bad polls?: International Business Times – Musophobia, Coulrophobia and Pteromerhanophobia: What are Britons Most Afraid of?
• Celestial Bodies are Out Of This World:
  • (EXTRA) Of course, every good scientist *always* says there’s a possibility of theory failure..: Medium.com/Arxiv – Cosmologists Say Last Week’s Announcement About Gravitational Waves and Inflation May Be Wrong
  • (EXTRA) It probably challenges our assumptions about asteroid marriage.: NBC News – First-Ever Asteroid With Rings Knocks Astronomers for a Loop
  • (EXTRA) No, not all those *other* super-earth predictions (like Nibaru), something entirely different.: The UK Guardian – Dwarf planet discovery hints at a hidden Super Earth in solar system
  • (EXTRA) /exit /end simulation /save Well, almost..: The New York Times – Is the Universe a Simulation?
  • (EXTRA) Just remember that what you are eating, really rocks!: Business Standard – Now, ‘Taste the Stars’ in meteorite flavoured dinner
  • (EXTRA) Now that NASA has said an end to space shuttles, does that mean everyone else gets a chance?: New Scientist – Europe’s home-grown space shuttle gears up for launch
  • (EXTRA) The annual analysis of just how weird we got in 2013.: Canadian UFO Report – The 2013 CANADIAN UFO SURVEY: an analysis of UFO reports in Canada
  • (EXTRA) A great crop of sightings! Sadly, no good way to separate the wheat from the chaff.: Epoch Times – More Than 14,000 UFO Sightings in Canada Since 1989
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) Once a school brat, always a school brat.: Orange – Middle-aged tearaways ruin school reunion
  • (EXTRA) The aliens had just had a really powerful steak, then decided to write some science-fiction.: Haaretz – The 9,000-year-old item, made of cow-bone, likely depicted ‘powerful supernatural beings,’ archaeologists say.
  • (EXTRA) Unless it was down with fishing lines and off-camera magic, this was a pretty impressive activity.: Fox29 Philedelphia – Store Surveillance Footage Shows Ghostly Activity

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