On the show this week:

• First World Problems
• Starring The Wars
• Inverted Expectation
• Extras

CQ: If some lessons can truly only be learned by encountering them in fiction, what stories should we tell to the AI to give them a better chance of turning out good?

Full list of 17 articles after the jump!

• First World Problems:
  • Would your dog pay that much to keep away from you and your fancy, breakable stores?: The Consumerist – Would You Pay $.20/Minute To Stow Your Dog While Shopping?
  • Virtual parking or a lonely person’s carpool?: The Washington Post – Need parking? Oil change? Gas? There’s an app for that.
  • God is a whole different kind of cloud service..: The New Yorker – Uber for God: Inside India’s Religious Tech Industry
  • The gift that keeps on giving — so long as you do.: New Scientist – Wearable microbial power plants generate electricity from urine
  • Also: great gag to play on annoying relatives staying over for the holidays!: The UK Daily Mail – Earthquake-proof bed ‘swallows’ you when it senses the ground shaking: Mechanism drops you and your mattress into a sealed box full of supplies
  • At what point do they introduce “dronesuits” or giant mecha?: The Telegraph – Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other drones
  • Suggesting that behind that cold, hard plastic often beats a warm, generous human.: Unknown source: – SWARM Volunteer Search and Rescue Network
• Starring The Wars:
  • (EXTRA) When you think about it, are they not wrong? (Technically): ABC13 – 7th grader told his Star Wars shirt isn’t allowed in school
  • (EXTRA) Talk about going to the dark side..: UPI – ‘Star Wars’ soundtrack helps doctors detect bowel cancer
  • (EXTRA) YES! Let me experience the story as it is told, not your crappy re-telling of it!: LiveScience – Beware ‘Star Wars’ Spoilers: Enjoyment Suffers When Plot Revealed
• Inverted Expectation:
  • As much as I want to rub it in vegetarian’s faces, it just makes me sad to have lettuce..: The UK Telegraph – Lettuce ‘three times worse than bacon’ for the environment, scientists claim
  • Great! So now *breathing* can make me fat? I don’t stand a chance..: BBC – The air that makes you fat
  • Probably North Americans eat so much bacon..: The Washington Post – Joke’s on us. American teeth are as bad as British teeth, study says.
  • Cats are jerks, but the real question is: do they mean to be?: ThriveWire – An Expert Explains Why Cats Are Always Knocking Over Your Stuff
  • YES: LiveScience – Elf on the Shelf: Cute or Creepy?
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) Or really just the start of *different* work?: The New York Times – The End of Work?
  • (EXTRA) Even on the brink of extinction, the pandas have a bit of a moral highground, eh?: Metro – Scientists have discovered that pandas need to be in love before they can make babies

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