On the show this week:

• Toys in Science
• Advances in Science
• Observational Science
• EMPHASIS Science

CQ: What has been your biggest and/or weirdest complication in 2016?

Full list of 19 articles after the jump!

• Toys in Science:
  • How far will you go to honour your fandom?: RocketNews24 – Transform into a Hylian or an elf with cute elf-ear headphones (Pics)
  • It’s only a failure of an ad campaign if no one is talking about it..: Metro – Kellogg’s is trying to make Corn Flakes hipster
  • Because ‘Tea, Earl Grey, Hot’ is sooooo non-specific.: Ad Week – Starbucks Is Selling a $150 Smart Mug That Lets You Control the Temperature of Your Coffee Device is already buzzy
  • We all really want a butler..: The UK Daily Mail – Now even your TRASH CAN is smart: Sensor can monitor everything you throw away automatically order items from Amazon when you’re about to run out
  • Not actually on the market, because the idea is non-scents..: Quartz – Researchers have developed an anti-stink perfume that’s like noise-canceling headphones for your nose
  • *Not actually flying start.: The Guardian – Off to a flying start: Quidditch Premier League launched in UK
• Advances in Science:
  • (EXTRA) Spoiler: they found… something..: ScienceAlert – It’s official: NASA’s peer-reviewed EM Drive paper has finally been published
  • (EXTRA) A review of the review of the evidence for evidence?: Motherboard – The Fact and Fiction of the NASA EmDrive Paper Leak
  • (EXTRA) Meanwhile, Elon Musk invents the future to eliminate the past..: Good.is – Tesla Powers An Entire Samoan Island With 100 Percent Solar Energy
  • (EXTRA) Is this the DIY taken too far? Or to a natural conclusion?: NPR – Patients Increasingly Influence The Direction Of Medical Research
• Observational Science:
  • ME + COFFEE = GOOD: CBC – The secret to a perfect cup of coffee could be math
  • Mine says ‘you need a larger desk’.: BBC – What the state of your desk says about you
  • Not *be* sick, but merely *seem* so..: Metro – This is the best time to call in sick
  • Another mark in the column marked ‘cats are weird’.: LiveScience – Hair Ball! How Cats’ Tongues Get Them So Clean
• EMPHASIS Science:
  • (EXTRA) Or rather, ‘Will a fair test show results?’: Hayley is a Ghost – Will Another Paranormal Challenge Prove Psychic Ability?
  • (EXTRA) Not the most exciting of superpowers.. until you need it.: ScienceAlert – Some people can ‘see’ calendars, and it could explain how our brain processes time
  • (EXTRA) Alternatively: ‘people not allowed to play with corpses’.: Science Magazine – Experiment to raise the dead blocked in India
  • (EXTRA) Can we program something to love us as one of its own (when we can’t do it ourselves)?: LiveScience/Seeker – (O) Stopping Killer Robots at the Source (Code)
  • (EXTRA) I’ve never understood why history had a course. It’s more like ‘change a footnote’.: The UK Express – ‘Snow pyramid discovery’ in Antarctic could change the course of HUMAN HISTORY

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