On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Don’t Mean To Pry, Mate
• The Digital Analogue
• Extras

CQ: Which will come first: world peace, or interstellar space travel? Is one necessary for the other?

Full list of 31 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • “To all the losers, and especially the winners: better luck next time!”: The Annals of Improbable Research – The 2014 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
  • Well, when you put it that way, it sounds kinda dumb and tedious…: New Scientist – Feedback: Ig Nobel prize for watching dogs urinate
  • And the prize for “best comeback” goes to…: The Huffington Post – Florida Satanic Church To Pass Out Children’s Coloring Books In Public Schools
  • Sounds like an anime. “Quick, break out that ancient robot to fight for us!”: BBC – Canada: Air force raids museum for spare plane parts
  • That happens when it transforms into Megalithictron.: Mysterious Universe – New Megalithic Site Could Steal Title for Oldest Stone Monument
• Don’t Mean To Pry, Mate:
  • (EXTRA) Once we actually meet up with alien life, these things will just be traffic reports..: The Portsmouth News – A sign of alien life – or just a UFO hoax?
  • (EXTRA) It’s like the ultimate experimentor robot..: Wired – This Bizarre Organism Builds Itself a New Genome Every Time It Has Sex
  • (EXTRA) A very firm statement that ultimately needs no proof. (Hmm..): Transcendant TV and Media – Researcher claims ‘Sasquatch’ are advanced human-type beings with UFO connections
  • (EXTRA) Haven’t they always been there?: The Moscow Times – Has the Yeti Come to the Moscow Region?
  • (EXTRA) Did they have British accents? I’m thinking they did.: Gympie Times – Yowies: ‘they’re out there I’ve spoken with them’
  • (EXTRA) To a certain degree, it’s the best way to get a specimen. But is it murder or science?: Boing Boing – Men determined to kill Bigfoot
  • (EXTRA) By “primal pull”, I’m thinking fight or flight response, personally..: New Scientist – Primal pull of a baby crying reaches across species
  • (EXTRA) Yeah, but how’s the haggis?: Yahoo! Travel – Buy This Scottish Pub That Promises Views of the Loch Ness Monster
  • (EXTRA) Well, where else are you going to park it?: Metro – Bear tied to lamp post outside pub while owner goes for a drink
• The Digital Analogue:
  • (EXTRA) And by “brain-to-brain”, we mean through all these machines over here.: The UK Telegraph/AFP – (O) Brain-to-brain ‘telepathic’ communication achieved for first time
  • (EXTRA) Too much can be shockingly ineffective.: BBC – (O) Warning over electrical brain stimulation
  • (EXTRA) The brain is a wonderful, strange land..: New Scientist – Epilepsy gives woman compulsion to write poems
  • (EXTRA) Fortunately, he spoke a bit before the coma as well.: Orange – (O) Man wakes from coma speaking Mandarin
  • (EXTRA) It’s like breathing, only with the mind.: New Scientist – Free will persists (even if your brain made you do it)
  • (EXTRA) Is it any reassurance to say that, on the whole, Wikipedia is as accurate as mainstream encyclopedias?: Michael Prescott – Wiki is still wacky
  • (EXTRA) The iPhone: sure to get a rise of even the most stiiff of critics!: The UK Guardian – Joan Rivers posts from the grave: ‘I’ve just bought an iPhone!’
  • (EXTRA) Sometimes we remember that we are carrying some of the most powerful computers in the world in our hip pockets.: New Scientist – iPhone eye test spots vision problems cheaply
  • (EXTRA) What do you gaze at to launch the porn? Oh, nevermind.: New Scientist – Gaze-tracker lets you connect to devices with a glance
  • (EXTRA) Not the best way for conjugals, tho..: New Scientist – Video chat in US jail shelved over concerns for inmates
  • (EXTRA) If she does it well enough and keeps the photos, she may fool herself in forty years, too..: Orange – (O) Student tricks family with fake holiday
  • (EXTRA) The math teachers always told us “show your work”!: NY Times/The Upshot – To Get More Out of Science, Show the Rejected Research
  • (EXTRA) Is this necessarily a bad thing? Sometimes, science isn’t enough for life..: NPR – When Scientists Give Up
  • (EXTRA) Now you see it, now you don’t — within a certain range of probabilities.: New Scientist – Quantum internet could keep us safe from spying eyes
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) What rights do you retain, when all else have been taken away?: New Scientist – Some inmates should have the right to euthanasia
  • (EXTRA) He might also spark static..: BBC – ‘Gimp Man of Essex’ aiming to spark debate while fundraising
  • (EXTRA) In the Polish vs Mexican food of the gods debate, I guess this is a point to the Poles..: UPI – Church members see face of Jesus in pierogi

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