On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Your Brain On Thugs
• Extras

CQ: Will we ever eliminate the need for sleep? And should we?

This is the last planned, regular episode for this year, but there may be some bonus content in the next couple of weeks.

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Full list of 19 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • “Hello, person. I wish to know all about the inner you. Please describe your best non-visible qualities.”: Upworthy – A Kinda Snobby Question You Need To Stop Asking When You First Meet Someone
  • Thoughts made manifest in skin and ink.: The Daily Grail – Everyday Magical Tattoos
  • Let’s start somewhere, shall we, or we will succeed in going nowhere.: New Scientist – Don’t drop the two-degree climate target
  • I like Great Order at a Distance. I’ll take a 15″ all meats, and make me One With Everything.: Epoch Times – Blackholes Align in ‘Spooky’ Way, Showing Great Order of Universe
  • 1 part space, 2 parts time, stir and let sit forever.: red Orbit – Golden Ratio Also Relates To Space-Time And Biology
  • A classified ad 10 million years in the making.: Craigslist – Geneticists Wanted
  • A classic manifestation entirely cleaner than ectoplasm, but with a lifespan shorter than science.: HNGN – UFO’s Creation? Mysterious Strands Of ‘Alien Angel Hair’ Captured Falling From Sky In Portugal, Residents Baffled
  • Clearly, this is why everything stays in Vegas.: International Business Times – US Military Has Been ‘Working Alongside’ Aliens Since The 50s, Claims Former US Air Force Serviceman: Extraterrestrial Beings Frequented Las Vegas Casinos-Report
• Your Brain On Thugs:
  • Turns out, what you take into the Matrix determines what you get out of it.: New Scientist – Personality affects maths-enhancing brain-zap method
  • How do you think it got there in the first place? By accident?!? This ain’t science, ya know — no accidents here..: New Scientist – Menthol increases nicotine addiction by tweaking brain
  • Can someone who makes a living deceiving people really be trusted? Or is this like the most trusted newsperson being a comedian?: The UK Telegraph – James Randi: debunking the king of the debunkers
  • It’s okay; it happens to students, too.: The Atlantic – The Mysterious Vanishing Brains
  • Mystery solved! If only the math were right, too.: The New York Times – University of Texas Says It Can Account for Missing Brain Specimens
  • Is it all some vast conspiracy — or are we just expressing a steady-state pattern dynamically? Nature or nurture? Conspiracy or (lazy) humanity?: The Mind Unleashed – Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
  • Soon, video games can play themselves — and enjoy them just as much!: Nintendo Life – AI Program Can Learn To Play Game Boy Games, Next Stop: The Subjugation Of Humanity
  • The scientific method: Make a guess. Check your work. Repeat until someone else beats you to it.: Epoch Times – How Much of Scientific Discovery Is Dumb Luck? Coincidence? Intuition?
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) “Giant” apparently doesn’t mean what you think it does..: New Scientist – ‘Giant’ fossil hints at the diversity of early primates
  • (EXTRA) A lifetime spent searching for a hairy hominid.: Innisfall Province – Canada’s sasquatch experts search for truth
  • (EXTRA) Did it swim to the island nation — or was it pushed?: Mysterious Universe – The Bigfoot of Japan

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