On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Mixed Messages
• Has Been Life, Will Be Living
• Extras

CQ: If you could design for yourself, with reason, a 30-day challenge to do, whether it be learn a new skill, practice something, or do something otherwise new, what would it be? And what’s stopping you from doing it?

Full list of 48 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • At long last, we have an inexpensive (nope), quick-producing (nuh-uh), tasty (um..) substitute for meat! (But it’s _no_ meat tree!): NPR/The Salt – Long Awaited Lab-Grown Burger Is Unveiled In London
  • Well, if I didn’t have to eat again, I’d save a bundle, too! (Not what the story is about.): Vice – The Man Who Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again Is Probably Going to Be a Billionaire Soon
  • A meal that may make you _want_ to never eat again..: Orange – Designer creates 12-in-1 course tinned meal
  • So far, but then.. Syfy..: NY Post – Syfy looks at world of make-believe reality in ‘Heroes of Cosplay’
  • Money may not buy happiness… But it will buy you a frickin’ private pirate island! Arrrr!: The UK Mirror – Pirates of Cambridgeshire: Island built on private estate in tribute to multimillionaire tycoon
  • Not as cool as a pirate island.. but almost!: Orange – Scarecrows take over village
  • Just think of them as affordable private pirate stations.. In spaaaace.: New Scientist – Space station poised to launch open-source satellites
  • … and if you want any more detail, you might just have to buy his device.: CBC – Windsor’s mysterious hum is real, says researcher
  • It just doesn’t sound right, does it? But everything else is made out of your urine, right?: ABC – Scientists Make Teeth Using Urine
  • At the corner of Titanic and Butter Street, perhaps?: Yahoo!/SKY News – Bus-Sized ‘Fatberg’ Threatened London Streets
  • Because, y’know, when you’ve already been running with a fridge on your back, you need more of a challenge to feel that BURN.: Orange – Fridge runner’s ultimate challenge
  • Everyone sets their own goals, I guess..: Metro – Woman dressed as living doll ‘breaks video game marathon record of 38 hours’
  • Just someone who wants to be fascinating for being fascinating..: The UK Daily Mail – The voices in her head, internet trolls and an OBSESSION with perfection: Inside the world of ‘real life Barbie’ Valeria Lukyanova
• Mixed Messages:
  • Will the first words from aliens be: “Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there!”: The Sydney Morning Herald – Hunt for alien spacecraft begins, as planet-spotting scientist Geoff Marcy gets funding
  • Is it possible they never invented psychoanalysis — or that we can even start to analyze them?: The Huffington Post – Need We Fear the Minds of Space Aliens?
  • (EXTRA) In the race to continually publish, have we forgotten that science is about collaboration, community and communication?: The UK Guardian/The Washington Post – How the internet is fast unravelling mysteries of the Mayan script
  • (EXTRA) A linguist disputes that a creature that may not exist can have a language.: Scientific American – (Big)foot in Mouth: Bigfoot Language
  • (EXTRA) Nothing like “new” research that came out a long time ago, doesn’t contain any proof, and carefully avoids talking about what it’s proving..: The Mind Unleashed – New Research Supports The Theory That Water Has Memory
  • (EXTRA) Your brain is always lying to you, because BEEP! your mind is telling the truth. Carry on.: redOrbit – Scientists Implant False Memories Inside The Minds Of Mice
  • (EXTRA) Scientist may also be able to plant falso conclusions in the minds of article writers, methinks.: Business Insider – THE DARK TRIAD: People Who Love The Night Have Psychopathic Traits
  • (EXTRA) Sending a leafy political message..: Orange – Prankster plants cannabis in town centre flower pots
  • (EXTRA) Knock, knock. – Who’s there? – Not PC. – PC Who? – I want a PC your ass!: Orange – Un-PC PC tells sexist jokes
  • (EXTRA) What’s in a name? Nothin’.: Metro – ‘Redneck Olympic Games’ return but have new name
  • (EXTRA) Bad ninja: I found 2 articles about them!: The UK Independent – The Japanese towns where tourists can train to be ninjas
  • (EXTRA) You’ll only get the badge if you kill someone who currently holds it. (Or, fill out this paperwork, run through the jungle for a day, pay a fee and give your best “ninja-face”..): Metro – Do I get a throwing star badge? Tourists head to ninja school
  • (EXTRA) Does this mean that prison is too soft? Or that prisoners shouldn’t be considered so hard?: Metro – Hardened prisoners knit clothes for time off jail sentences
  • (EXTRA) Ah, to hold to the older ideals of health!: Orange – Mascot loses job for not being fat enough
  • (EXTRA) And you should HEAR the things they call you.. Wow! Filthy!: Phenomenica – Dolphins call each other by name like humans
  • (EXTRA) Blood is so mysteriously both good and evil at the same time, a symbol of death and life..: Brazil Weird News – MEXICO. The Communion Wafer That Bleeds
  • (EXTRA) A different kind of special moment in church.: Orange – Vicar smashes world drum kit record
  • (EXTRA) May his noodly appendage embrace you.: Orange – Pastafarian wins ID card battle
  • (EXTRA) When bad people do good things..: Orange – Charity thieves return loot in change of heart
  • (EXTRA) … and when rich people do cheap things..: Orange – Silicon Valley bigwig jailed for stealing Lego
• Has Been Life, Will Be Living:
  • The full re-printed article of Sir Ian Wilmut, Dolly’s creator.: Scientific American/The Conversation – Produce Woolly Mammoth Stem Cells, Says Creator of Dolly the Sheep
  • How do you clone an ancient creature? By convincing it that it wants to.: The UK Guardian – Woolly mammoth DNA may lead to a resurrection of the ancient beast
  • Legit sighting, mistaken identity or viral marketing campaign? But why only seconds?: News.com.au – Hikers capture footage of mysterious ‘Bigfoot’ figure in the Canadian wilderness
  • Nothing like concluding that it is a hoax in the _headline_. Biased, much?: National Post – ‘Large, hairy biped’: Bigfoot video hoax in Mission, B.C. captures global attention
  • You see, honey, when a rare beast really loves a usually-sterile rare beast.. : The UK Daily Mail – Meet Ippo the ‘Zonkey’: Rare foal was born after a zebra climbed a fence to mate with an endangered donkey
  • At some point in history, did the hogs squeal… in ecstasy?: PhysOrg – A chimp-pig hybrid origin for humans?
  • If that’s its best defence, it really _needs_ protection!: The Globe and Mail/CP – Saskatchewan scientists work to protect blood-squirting lizard
  • (EXTRA) Soon, the mice will be trained how to do graffitti, wear droopy pants and slack off. (STEREOTYPES ARE BAD.): Orange – Man teaches mice to skateboard
  • (EXTRA) Packs of wild dogs are scary because they are stupid. Packs of wild cats are scary because they _aren’t_.: The Local of France – French woman savagely attacked by… cats
  • (EXTRA) I wonder if this could lead to a practice to carry one’s food source within one’s body..: BBC – Pea plant grows inside man’s lung
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) : Orange – Woman Offers Gay Parents Breastfeeding Service
  • (EXTRA) : The Scientist – Sticking Power
  • (EXTRA) : Sky News – Russian Man Arrested For Stealing Entire Road
  • (EXTRA) : 41 Action News KSHB – Missouri rancher suspects something out of the ordinary is mutilating and killing cattle
  • (EXTRA) : Liberals Unite – What Does A Ghost Have To Do To Get A Spot Of Tea? (VIDEO)

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