On the show this week:

• Packin’ My Space Bags
• Things We Have Done
• All In Your Head

CQ: Once we have accepted robots as thinking beings, will we ever accept them as rulers and bosses?

Full list of 13 articles after the jump!

• Packin’ My Space Bags:
  • Residency not required.: LiveScience/Space.com – Asgardia: Proposed Space-Based Nation Accepting Citizenship Applications
  • Have you join the sky gods yet?: Asgardia – ASGARDIA.Concept
  • Don’t all nations start off as dreams?: The Conversation – Why ‘Asgardia’ is more likely to be a pie in the sky than a nation in space
  • Will they still say that in 50 years?: Popular Science – The Founding Of The First Space Nation Today Doesn’t Really Mean Anything
  • How did we not notice that the moon has gotten the stuffing kicked out of it?: Gizmodo – Colonizing the Moon Just Got a Lot More Dangerous
  • The neighbourhood has gotten bigger..: LiveScience – The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought
  • So, if outer space doesn’t get us, we will get us..: Mysterious Universe – Scientist Says Aliens Destroyed Themselves and We Will Too
• Things We Have Done:
  • (EXTRA) Well, that would seem to be the last word, right?: Time – Insane Clown Posse: Who Are the Real ‘Killer Clowns’ Terrorizing America?
  • (EXTRA) She seems to have missed the point: she wore a tail for a week, and no one minded.: Jezebel – Eat, Pray, Tail: I Wore a Tail for 1 Week and Learned Nothing
  • (EXTRA) “Report of my death have been” largely correct.: Metro – No, the Great Barrier Reef is not dead — but it is in danger
• All In Your Head:
  • (EXTRA) The next stage in our cyborg development.: LiveScience – Brain-Implanted Device Restores Sense of Touch in Man with Spinal Cord Injury
  • (EXTRA) I’d commit to one side or the other, but I’m tired of this debate.: LiveScience – The New Science of Willpower: Can Self-Control Really Get Used Up?
  • (EXTRA) You don’t have to fool all of the people — just 50% + 1.: LiveScience – Half of Americans Believe in 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

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