On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Mysteries: Solved
• The World Come Undone
• Extras

CQ: Is original art less valuable when it can be easily reproduced by technology?

Special guest co-host (and good friend) Pat joins me to keep the facts straight!

Full list of 32 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • Great, so everyone will live longer to complain..: New Scientist – Gene variant found that may help people live to be 100
  • And by “finalists”, they mean, “the best of those who didn’t get far”.: New Scientist – $10 million tricorder X Prize unveils 10 finalists
  • Because everyone knows that flags make you immune to cars.. Or is that invisible?: Orange – Pedestrians told to wave red flag
  • Such a wide price for a narrow home..: Orange – Britain’s narrowest house up for sale
  • … and then promptly gets an anullment, because he was lazy. And cursed.: Orange – Woman marries dog
  • (EXTRA) Ultimate ice bucket parody?: Bolton News – Police investigate as semi-naked man in homemade burka does ice bucket challenge outside Bolton’s biggest mosque
  • (EXTRA) As they often do..: Orange – Drink laws spoil carnival
  • He didn’t come to *my* table!: Orange – Waiter breaks beer-carrying world record
• Mysteries: Solved:
  • My theory of “history expanding behind us” gets larger..: The Guardian UK – Stonehenge researchers discover site is much larger than previously thought
  • … or maybe they are the team responsible for unleashing these things?: The Guardian – The scientific A-Team saving the world from killer viruses, rogue AI and the paperclip apocalypse
  • No, they didn’t find the underground wires, but they may have found the underground why-ers..: The Guardian – Dry spell at Stonehenge reveals secret that has eluded archaeologists
  • (EXTRA) It really makes a mockery of the term “shrimp”..: LiveScience – Oversized Alien-Like ‘Shrimp’ Caught Off Florida Is ID’ed
  • History as tool of present propoganda? Or worth celebrating brave failure?: BBC – Sir John Franklin: Fabled Arctic ship found
  • (EXTRA) Yeah, but gym socks start to smell strongly..: New Scientist – Wrecked knees? Nose cartilage can fix them
  • (EXTRA) His first words might have been “Wo mi”..: Orange – (O) Man wakes from coma speaking Mandarin
  • (EXTRA) Generally, I’m opposed to plugging myself in, except when necessary.: BBC – (O) Warning over electrical brain stimulation
  • (EXTRA) Technically, all writing is telepathic..: The UK Telegraph/AFP – (O) Brain-to-brain ‘telepathic’ communication achieved for first time
  • (EXTRA) Maybe the fever is caused by a curse?: Yahoo!/AFP – Fever mounts as stunning statues found at ancient Greek tomb
  • (EXTRA) Hint: it happens very, very slowly, maddeningly so; still, don’t be a Playa hater..: Doubtful News – Mystery of moving rocks of Racetrack Playa solved by science
  • (EXTRA) Or.. something did.: NPR – Meteor Leaves 40-Foot Crater Near Managua’s Airport
  • (EXTRA) Now if only we could fool *ourselves* that well!: Orange – (O) Student tricks family with fake holiday
• The World Come Undone:
  • (EXTRA) Through the scanner weirdly..: Epoch Times – A Physicist’s View of the Afterlife: Weird Quantum Physics
  • (EXTRA) If you know I know that you know, does that validate either of our existances?: EsoterX – Watching Me, Watching You: Selective Attention in a Creepy Universe
  • (EXTRA) Um.. No.: The Herald Sun – Are we doing enough to learn the truth about UFOs?
  • (EXTRA) I wonder if the population is proportionatly lower..: BBC – Burton-upon-Trent farm claims largest scarecrow display
  • (EXTRA) Yeah, cuz courtrooms are immune to theatrics, strange logic and magic tricks..: BBC – Judge criticises lawyer for ‘Harry Potter’ appearance
  • (EXTRA) Sometimes, you have to call a spade a broom..: British Humanist Association – Libel tourist and Nigerian ‘witch hunter’ (the self styled) ‘Lady Apostle’ Helen Ukpabio attempts to stifle critics by suing BHA for half a billion pounds
  • (EXTRA) Does it tenderize them? Pre-cook them? IS THAT WHAT PRE-COOKED BACON IS?: The Telegraph – Radioactive wild boar roaming the forests of Germany
  • (EXTRA) Not just the Spanish Flu..: Orange – Zombie apocalypse hits Spain
  • (EXTRA) I’d love to believe that a true amateur made such a discovery, but it’s too circumstantial..: The UK Daily Mail – WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Jack the Ripper unmasked: How amateur sleuth used DNA breakthrough to identify Britain’s most notorious criminal 126 years after string of terrible murders
  • (EXTRA) The Rocketeer of Poland? Or Spring Heel Jack?: io9 – “The Springer” Leaps From WW2 Urban Legend To Anti-Fascist Superhero
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) That explains midnight cravings..: New Scientist – Mammals’ reptile ancestors may have hunted at night

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