Show Notes for TWS050: Ask Me No Questions, I’ll Tell You No Truths

• This must be some new meaning of “impossible” I’m not aware of..
• Fingers & toes
• Communicable Ill-Ease
• Miscellaneous Extras

• Theme Song: Caffeine by Grubspoon from The Podsafe Music Network
• This must be some new meaning of “impossible” I’m not aware of..
  • Plaid speed! – The Scotsman: Experts do the ‘impossible’ by breaking speed of light
  • Designer genes. – Yahoo!/AP: Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years
  • Mars harbours alien, frozen life (this week). – CNN: Study: Martian soil may contain life
  • We are all made of stardust.. Or perhaps slush. – Space.com: Scientist: Calculations Prove Life Began in Comet
  • EXTRA: Jupiter just wants us to have more life, perhaps.. – New Scientist: Jupiter increases risk of comet strike on Earth
  • Finally! Someplace that we *haven’t* found life! – BBC: Rare dead star found near Earth
• Fingers & toes
  • Great, all we need: sharks which grab you. – National Geographic: Sharks Have Genes for Fingers and Toes
  • Good thing they aren’t in the Olympics then.. Or alive at all, for that matter. – ScienceDaily: T. Rex Quicker Than Professional Athlete, Say Scientists
  • If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy. – Ananova: World’s biggest hand
  • This is a very extreme way to point something out.. – Ananova: Man sent finger to PM
  • Never judge someone until you’ve recreated their footprints. – BBC: Egypt footprint ‘could be oldest’
• Communicable Ill-Ease
  • When we have the ability to access so much information, will any myths and speculations survive? – Contra Costa Times: Can Nessie survive the Internet? By Tony Hicks
  • The only difference between fakes produced at home and fakes for movies is that movies have a script.. – Web Pro News: Are The YouTube UFOs You-FOs?
  • It’s tuber time! – Ananova: Town plans potato park
  • The trouble with recent history is they keep making more. – Ananova: Historian is out of time
  • Judge this book by its cover. – Ananova: World’s most expensive book
  • Apparently, people fib. – Ananova: Man admits Spiderpig hoax
  • Imagine this kid with an AT&T email address: at at at at dot com. – Ananova: I name this child ‘@’
• Miscellaneous Extras
  • How do we keep finding this stuff? – BBC: Fossils belong to new great ape
  • Proof that there was life in the US before Columbus got lost. Uh, besides the natives. And the animals. – WCCO: A Minnesota Mystery: The Kensington Runestone
  • “Flight or fight” taken to a new extreme.. – Local6/AP: Hurricane News Scares 8-Year-Old Fla. Girl Into Trying To Ride Bike To Ohio
  • Another “flight or fight” example? Or is that “flight or fright”? – BBC: Vatican plans flights to shrines
  • And the next Darwin awards nominee is… – Ananova: Students played ‘frisbee’ with land mine
  • Two smart by half. Equals one. – BBC: Cleverest crows opt for two tools
  • Next: the stone whisperer. – MSNBC/AP: ‘Goose whisperer’ bonds with park birds
  • You never really know a pet until you’ve walked a mile in their paws.. – The New Zealand Herald/Reuters: Cat lovers take on feline roles to know their pets
  • Yawn.. it’s all in your mind.. again.. – PhysOrg: Scientists propose explanation for out-of-body experiences
  • Of course, I’m biased, as my eyes are quite blue.. But are they biased, too? – The Daily Mail: Why blue-eyed boys (and girls) are so brilliant
  • The latest example of terrorism: being afraid of smiling like a terrorist. – MSNBC/Newsweek: Patti Davis: At the Airport, You Better Smile
  • As mentioned in the show, this is the report on “earthlights” as seen in the recent Peruvian earthquake. – forgetomori blog: Earthlights on Peru’s Earthquake?
  • More on earthlights. – Wikipedia: Earthquake light
  • You laugh, but it means there aren’t any more serious crimes to solve.. – Mail & Guardian/AFP: Mounties chase rebel bees after hive coup
  • Because sometimes, taking the bus can seem too ostentatious.. – Yahoo!/AP: Man rides mule from Minnesota to Wyoming

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