On the show this week:

• Keeps On Giving
• You Think So
• Breakin’ The Laws

CQ: Will it be philosophy or fiction that provides humanity with the inspiration to change from our current rut of civilization?

Full list of 13 articles after the jump!

• Keeps On Giving:
  • It may be more real than some products..: The Local Germany – German stock market to start trading in magic armour
  • Madness and genius are often two sides of the same cracker..: Reviewed.com – Well, someone finally went and made a hot glue gun for cheese
  • At first I wondered: what does a teenager want to control language for?: Science Alert – A mysterious 14-year cycle has been controlling our words for centuries
  • This may be why our language repeats itself..: Metro – Thor, Jupiter and Clio predicted to top 2017 new baby name charts
  • Who’s laughing now?: LiveScience – 3D-Print Your Laugh and Launch It Into Space
• You Think So:
  • This is as much an AI as much as a photocopy is “hand-made original work”.: TechCrunch – Iris is an AI to help science R&D
  • How can we make the robots think we are one of their own, when we cannot do it for ourselves?: LiveScience/Seeker – (O) Stopping Killer Robots at the Source (Code)
  • (EXTRA) I know mine zzzzz Does!: Stanford News – Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time, Stanford researchers find
• Breakin’ The Laws:
  • (EXTRA) Moore’s Law is probably at an end.: LiveScience – This Tiny Electronic Chip Is Just 3 Atoms Thick
  • (EXTRA) Big surprises for very small things..: Digital Trends – H2 … oh my! MIT researchers just discovered a strange new property of water
  • (EXTRA) The only thing that is constant is the speed of criticism when challenging established science.: Motherboard – Scientists Think the Speed of Light Has Slowed, and They’re Trying to Prove It
  • (EXTRA) Are we on an elusive trail, or have we found a trail that doesn’t exist?: Scientific American – Cold Fusion Lives: Experiments Create Energy When None Should Exist
  • (EXTRA) The thing is: if physics has to fall apart in the face of new evidence, it really must do so.: Forbes – How Physics Falls Apart If The EMdrive Works

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