On the show this week:

• Improbable Byproduct
• Emotional Journey
• Transferring Science Credits
• Off This Rock

CQ: When it comes to the days-of-the-week in the future, we will just extend or shorten the list of named days we currently use, or invent entirely new names for them. What new names will we use?

Full list of 16 articles after the jump!

• Improbable Byproduct:
  • Shouldn’t this be standard practice?: Inverse – Researchers Are Dumpster Diving Outside the Large Hadron Collider
  • Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.: International Business Times – MIT ‘breakthrough’ 3D printing technique can print out solids and liquids at the same time
  • Does not operate in Time, merely the other 3 dimensions.: LiveScience – Motion Simulator Brings 4D Entertainment to Your Couch
  • When your parameters are open, go ahead and let good taste rule..: Tech Times – Scientists Use AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ To Speed Up Cancer Drug Delivery
  • Finally! Making plants into batteries.: Discovery – Reverse Photosynthesis Makes Biofuel
• Emotional Journey:
  • This is a Zen koan..: The Guardian – What’s the world’s loneliest city?
  • Maybe it did change everything already, and we simply forgot..: ScienceAlert – Scientists find evidence of ‘anti-memories’, and it could change our understanding of neuroscience
  • (EXTRA) It’s ‘official’ because they used it, not because anyone actually sanctions it.. Sheesh! Drama much?: ScienceAlert – Psychologists have come up with an official test to measure your need for drama
  • (EXTRA) Shouldn’t it?: LiveSciencie – Bad Touch: Intimate Robot Interactions Cause Discomfort
• Transferring Science Credits:
  • (EXTRA) Putting the ‘carbon’ in ‘carbs’..: New Scientist – Hidden cost of climate change is unwanted carbs in your food
  • (EXTRA) Apparently, only the headline writer found this disconcerting..: WCAX – At Issue: Vermont’s First Patented Cider Tree
  • (EXTRA) It’s a bit better at interpretting ‘txt spk’ than I am..: New Scientist – AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS
  • (EXTRA) No word on how many demons to attend, but registration is likely sheer hell..: BBC – Swansea University hosts ancient Egyptian ‘demons’ conference
• Off This Rock:
  • (EXTRA) I’m pretty sure that’s a title from a space pulp story..: BBC – Project Greenglow and the battle with gravity
  • (EXTRA) Pleasure dome?: New Scientist – Inflatable space hotel to be tested by space station crew
  • (EXTRA) Now you see us, now you don’t!: New Scientist – Lasers could hide Earth from aliens — or tell them we’re here

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