On the show this week:

• Mass Hystericals
• Cold End of the Universe
• Thinking It Through
• Techno Logical

CQ: Look at your daily routine of regular activity and project forward: what will be a quotidian activity two hundred years from now?

Full list of 19 articles after the jump!

• Mass Hystericals:
  • I believe they call that *falling*…: Unknown source: – (O) Skydiver Luke Aikins Sets Record For Highest Jump Without Parachute
  • The Canadian prelude to Beyond Thunderdome..: CBC – Thieves loot hundreds of kilos of cucumbers from Manitoba farmer in organized heist
  • First, they came for our cucumbers.. Then our water.. (Logical conclusion).: New Scientist – We have to recycle water on a massive scale — this is how we can
  • Do we have a unique opportunity to simulate the world in order to improve it?: SingularityHUB – Can We Meaningfully Improve Government With Experimentation?
• Cold End of the Universe:
  • (EXTRA) Who’d a thaw’d that would be a problem?: LiveScience – Cold-War-Era Toxic Waste Could Be Released by Greenland’s Melting Ice
  • (EXTRA) We’re beyond trying to save the planet, and just trying desperately to save the ice now.: LiveScience – (O) Remote Antarctic Library Would ‘Protect Ice Memory’
  • (EXTRA) The secret to long life is… probably too dangerous.: Unknown source: – This shark can live up to 400 years, making it the oldest known vertebrate
  • (EXTRA) A red scare of entirely different kind?: The Daily Galaxy – China’s Space Scientists Warn of Extraterrestrial Danger –“Universe is a Jungle with Every Civilization a Hidden Hunter: Those Who are Exposed Will be Eliminated”
  • (EXTRA) Print the legend.: Mysterious Universe – The Abominable Snowman: Where Legend Meets Fact
  • (EXTRA) Well, it’s slogan is ‘gotta catch’em all!’: Metro – (O) Pokemon Go ‘a death culture created by capitalism’ says Venezuelan President
  • (EXTRA) This might be what people are preparing for..: CTV News – (O) Extinction-level asteroid could collide with Earth in 2175
• Thinking It Through:
  • (EXTRA) Technically, it’s *all* in your head, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t real..: The New York Times – (O) Is Hypnosis All in Your Head? Brain Scans Suggest Otherwise
  • (EXTRA) Yes, because they have minds and are gullible.: LiveScience – Can Hypnosis Improve Kids’ Health?
  • (EXTRA) Because, uh.. You know.. um.. Hey, how about that weather?: Science Alert – (O) Here’s the science behind why small talk is so awkward — and so essential
  • (EXTRA) Immunize yourself with happy thoughts.. like clowns… Oops.: Deadline News – Academics warn that fear of local haunted house is “contagious”
  • (EXTRA) Will social media make this ‘problem’ go away?: JimHarold.com – The People With No Past
• Techno Logical:
  • (EXTRA) Are we addicted to not talking to each other directly?: Oddity Central – English Bar Disables Cell Phones to Get Patrons Talking to Each Other
  • (EXTRA) Because you never know just what your muscles will do, so monitoring them is crucial..: Live Science – (O) Ultrathin Electric ‘Tattoo’ Can Monitor Muscles and More
  • (EXTRA) Just because you can..: LiveScience – Do the Robot: 1,000-Plus Dancing Droids Break Record

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