On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Mind CTRL-ALT-DEL
• Unnatural History

CQ: Would the discovery of alien gear — but not aliens themselves! — which would catapult humanity technologically forward thousands of years tear humanity apart, or would we easily adapt to it?

Full list of 16 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • It’s a match made IN YOUR MIND.: The Daily Grail – (O) Love at First Fort? Kreskin’s Supernatural Dating Service
  • Just imagine all that energy wasted at construction sites!: New Scientist – Paper microphone may help charge your cellphone
  • It would get my vote..: Mother Jones – ETs for Hillary: Why UFO Activists Are Excited About Another Clinton Presidency
  • What if the secrets are really embarassing and mundane?: The Toronto Star – Cabal keeping UFO secrets to blame for world’s woes, says former cabinet minister Paul Hellyer
• Mind CTRL-ALT-DEL:
  • I’ll take mine in red and gold, please..: New Scientist – Mind-control exoskeleton gives unprecedented paralysis recovery
  • Sounds like steak!: The Guardian – (O) Melody on the menu: how a sprinkle of Mozart might give your meal zing
  • (EXTRA) Can we sprinkle a little nostalgia on our pasta?: New Scientist – (O) Why food is rarely the simple pleasure it once was
  • (EXTRA) So long as they don’t infect me with creepy emotions, I’m good with this (although I have natural shields).: Discover – (O) We Get Infected By Other People’s Emotions — And That’s a Good Thing
  • How are problems affected by the way you try to explain them?: New Scientist – War and religion: the metaphors hampering climate change debate
  • (EXTRA) I would imagine it’s by standing under bridges between humans..: Unknown source: – How a Troll-Spotting Algorithm Learned Its Anti-antisocial Trade
  • (EXTRA) Apparently, they ran out of humans to test..: New Scientist – (O) Facebook invents an intelligence test for machines
  • (EXTRA) You probably knew this was coming..: CultureReady – Navy Research Project on Intuition
  • (EXTRA) What if the miscue is coming.. FROM THE FUTURE!: The Nightshirt – Coincidence, Chaos, & Archetypes in Our Science-Fictional World
• Unnatural History:
  • (EXTRA) Does this prove that it’s less natural — or more?: Live Science – Mysterious Desert Fairy Circles Share Pattern with Skin Cells
  • (EXTRA) More like a 300 million year old SCREW YOU!: The UK Daily Mail – Is this a 300 million-year-old SCREW? Group claims it could be proof of aliens living on Earth – but scientists say it’s just a fossilised sea creature
  • (EXTRA) Maybe they knew something we don’t..: New Scientist – Neanderthal chefs may have spiced up menus with wild herbs

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