On the show this week:

• Real Virtual
• Look To The Skies
• Robots Art Changing
• Environmental Relapse
• Displaced Extras

CQ: What should people be taught: what they *should* know, or what they *need* to know?

Full list of 17 articles after the jump!

• Real Virtual:
  • This is different from just ignoring each other.. how?: NPR – Wearing VR Headsets In Public Is Now A (Very Awkward) Thing
  • Who needs real furniture when virtual worlds exist?: New Scientist/New Urbanist – Time to declutter — what consumer VR means for interior design
  • Will VR make us wish we lived there?: Unknown source: – Homesick?
  • Do we see it all, or only between commercials?: SingularityHUB – Is the Brain’s Awareness of the World All or Nothing?
  • Virtual control of reality?: LiveScience – Paralyzed Man Moves Fingers with Brain Implant
• Look To The Skies:
  • (EXTRA) I mean, *after* the whooping for joy, of course..: Popular Science – What Happens After You Land A Rocket On A Drone Ship?
  • (EXTRA) It truly is baby steps, but I’m ok with that..: New Scientist – Billionaire pledges $100m to send spaceships to Alpha Centauri
  • (EXTRA) Not quite baby steps..: LiveScience – Humans Should Edit Genes to Survive In Space, Scientist Says (Video)
  • (EXTRA) It’s like they all know something we dont’..: Discovery – ‘Bizarre’ Group of Distant Black Holes are Mysteriously Aligned
• Robots Art Changing:
  • That does not die that can be reproduced by a computer..: LiveScience – New ‘Rembrandt’ Painting Was Created by Computer
  • (EXTRA) Robots with the ability to be liquid-y part of the time? How could that go wrong?: LiveScience – Shape-Shifting Drones Could Be Made from Metal-Foam Hybrid
• Environmental Relapse:
  • (EXTRA) Follow the train of honey?: The Local Italy – Italian beekeeper offers reward for 1.2m stolen bees
  • (EXTRA) The world will survive.. in monochrome?: The Age – Macquarie Island gives scientists a view of ecosystem without bees
  • (EXTRA) Can you commit yourself to not pulling in things you’ll just throw away?: News.com.au – The rise of the zero waste life
• Displaced Extras:
  • (EXTRA) WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING? I JUST SAID TO NOT PANIC!: AP – THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL STOP SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS
  • (EXTRA) Do some people have the keys to lock up disease?: BBC – ‘Superhero DNA’ keeps diseases at bay
  • (EXTRA) Clearly, the ancient beings didn’t care about litter..: The UK Telegraph – Mysterious giant sphere unearthed in forest divides opinion

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