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On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Back Page

CQ: Does it matter whether we fear or embrace the big changes, like contact with alien civilizations and the growth of artificial intelligence, or should we just prepare to accept them, like it or not?

Full list of 13 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • Will people finally put up with that crap?: Orange – Britain’s first ‘poo bus’ set for launch
  • Are we ready to have consequence-free benders?: Metro – Booze that doesn’t give you a hangover is here, thank you science
  • The dog would tell you not to take another drink..: Metro – Dogs really are man’s best friend, science proves it
  • The “wood ape” is apparently a loud jerk. Thankfully, the skeptics aren’t (always) the same.: Doubtful News – Four-year Bigfoot research project in Oklahoma yields intriguing and unexplained results
  • Synchronized dying seems like a lousy sport..: MSN News/Reuters – Thousands of snow geese fall dead from sky in Idaho
  • Would we allow genetic engineering for artistic grounds?: Live Science – Bacterial Paintings? New Art Uses Tiny Life Forms
  • Technically, Mars is warmer..: New Scientist – New Urbanist: Off-world colonies of the Canadian Arctic
  • They published, therefore they didn’t perish.: Frontiers – What makes you think you are conscious? An agnosticist manifesto
• Back Page:
  • (EXTRA) Which came first, the cooked or the uncooked egg? We may no longer know..: io9 – (O) This Is How You Unboil An Egg
  • (EXTRA) This may be the vanguard of our future selves, once adjusted for (climate) inflation.: Orange – (O) Human Polar Bear set for Antarctic swim
  • (EXTRA) That’s silly. Everyone knows that fairies aren’t all that small..: BBC – (O) ‘Fairy control’ to halt tiny doors in Somerset woods
  • (EXTRA) Sadly, doesn’t make the dun-dun-dun-dun noise..: ExtremeTech – (O) Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine
  • (EXTRA) I fear that it won’t improve the level of discourse.: New Scientist – (O) Facebook invents an intelligence test for machines

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