On the show this week:

• Growth Industries
• Literal Truth
• Spinventions

CQ: What creation from a old horror film are we going to recreate for modern — ostensibly positive — use?

Full list of 12 articles after the jump!

• Growth Industries:
  • One step closer to the (dark side) of the Matrix.: Unknown source: – An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep — and humans could be next
  • Did they name the rat Zaphod?: Metro – Surgeon planning first human head transplant gives rat a second head
  • Or is this just a way to make you feel better for not getting a date?: LiveScience – More Americans Than Ever Are Single (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
  • Shouldn’t we just have clean water from the tap?: Reuters – (O) UK-based start-up hopes to cut plastic waste with innovative water balls
  • Worst or best plan, ever?: New Scientist – Plan to regrow receding Swiss glacier by blowing artificial snow
• Literal Truth:
  • (EXTRA) And by ‘solve’, they mean ‘scratched the surface’..: Mysterious Universe – (O) Russian Mathematicians Solve the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript
  • (EXTRA) People that don’t count still count.: LiveScience/The Conversation – ‘Anumeric’ People: When Languages Have No Words for Numbers
  • (EXTRA) The only thing negative is the truth in this case.. Uh..: LiveScience – (O) Bizarre Superfluid with Negative Mass Created in a Lab
  • (EXTRA) Infinitely speaking, we know nothing..: Scientific American – We Live in a Pre-Truth Universe
• Spinventions:
  • (EXTRA) Do we have so much to do that we need something to do while waiting for things to do?: LiveScience – Fidget Spinners: What They Are, How They Work and Why the Controversy
  • (EXTRA) Expect annoying ad drones to start appearing shortly after..: LiveScience – Spherical Drone Display Looks Like 360-Degree Flying Screen
  • (EXTRA) That’s rather embarassing..: New Scientist – NASA might run out of space suits before it quits the ISS

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