On the show this week:

• Hacknowledgy
• Lost and Profound
• Good Job

CQ: Should we handle “storm days” in the same way we handle “sick days”?

Full list of 15 articles after the jump!

• Hacknowledgy:
  • Don’t worry; it’s for your own benefit..: BBC – The tricks being played on you by UK roads
  • Also: makes it harder for the Hulk to grip the ship and throw it.: LiveScience – Slimy Defense: Hagfish-Inspired Slime Could Protect Navy Warships
  • Worst. Drone. EVAR!: LiveScience – RoboDragonfly: Tiny Backpack Turns Insect into a Cyborg
  • Worst. Bone. EVAR!: Gizmodo – Meet the Body Hacker Trying to Become a Human Vibrator
  • (EXTRA) Using insurgent attacks against the body?: The Verge – The next weapon against brain cancer may be human skin
  • (EXTRA) Can we use this politicians next? Or instead?: The UK Evening Standard – New software ‘will help Met predict fugitives’ futures’
• Lost and Profound:
  • (EXTRA) The reason we have tomatoes in January is the reason tomatoes can make it here in January..: LiveScience – Big, Red and Tasteless: Why Tomatoes Lost Their Flavor
  • (EXTRA) What some people will go through to be allowed to drink in college..: Engadget – Stanford students recreated a 5,000-year-old Chinese beer
  • (EXTRA) Just in time for a new special! Can we get him to do an alien discovery next?: News.com.au – James Cameron links find of bronze-age anchors to lost city of Atlantis
  • (EXTRA) Bureacracy is older than time.: Shanghaist – Chinese man has been trapped in India since mistakenly wandering across the border in 1963
  • (EXTRA) So, be careful what you say around your child!: LiveScience – Infants Exposed to Languages Can Retain Them Later in Life
  • (EXTRA) Time to update my oldest DVDs!: Motherboard – The Hidden Phenomenon That Could Ruin Your Old Discs
• Good Job:
  • (EXTRA) Because it was 2016.: LiveScience – Why ‘Dumpster Fire’ Was 2016 Word of the Year
  • (EXTRA) I think this put a machine out of work..: The UK Daily Mirror – Meet the ‘world’s first’ professional bed warmer – who comes with an eye-watering price tag
  • (EXTRA) Strangely, they are upset over the price..: Kent Online – Domino’s Pizza left red-faced after driver caught stocking up on cheap potato wedges at Asda in Greenhithe

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