On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Science Friction
- Mistaken Hide Entity
- Extras
CQ: What impact, if any, would you think that the confirmed discovery of Bigfoot, alien beings or perpetual motion devices have on everyday life?
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TWS202: An Episode That Never Wasn’t
CQ: Whether it is the Occupy movement or the Thrive movement, many have been saying that the societal structure we’ve built up has gone wrong somewhere. What is one concrete, non-abstract, physical or philosophical way that each individual can change society as a whole?
On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- Putting the ‘ODD’ in ‘crODDime’
- Texture: Terrestrial
- Extras
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TWS151: Wise Men Say What Fools Know
Bumper: JR Murdock, author of V and A Shipping
Promo: All Games Considered
Promo: Tuning In To Scifi
CQ: These days, we seem to be fascinated, as a society, in the convergence and ubiquity of technology. We want all of our devices to work with each other, and all of our devices and things to be connected to each other. Is this just a fad, or do you think that, in 100 years, the idea of having separated items that aren’t integrated with the rest of your digital live will be unusual?
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- April Fools May March
- Illectronics and Madgets
- You Thought You Did, But You Didn’t
- Extras
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Show Notes for TWS119: We Are All Made Up Of What We Give Others
On the show this week:
- Records, Numbers and Statistics Count For Something
- Built For Sharing
- Apocalypses, Both Big And Small
- The Rest of the Universe (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Given that human perception is apparently limited to what we need to survive — no X-ray vision, no infrared, no ultraviolet, no sound visualization (although you might argue that’s what our ear does..) and no radiation vision — but the universe has more beyond what we can see, does the universe hold surprises that we just don’t perceive? And will we ever perceive the rest of the universe?
Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to
weirdshow[[at]]gmail.com, leave a comment or record your message via the
MobaTalk client on the right hand side of The WEIRD Show or call in at 1-206-203-2292.
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Show Notes for TWS086: little things
This week, all the little things seem to be on the collective news mind.
On the show this week:
- Small things of importance
- Importance of small things
- Important things that only look small (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What’s the societal “things” humanity no longer needs and should get rid of? What’s our vestigial societal norm?
Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to weirdshow[[at]]gmail.com, record your message via the MobaTalk client on the right hand side of Encaffeinated!, leave an answer on Facebook or call in at 206-203-2292.
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