On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Space Intentionally Not Left Blank
• Unscenery
• Extras

CQ: If you could fool the entire world into doing something good, what would it be about?

Full list of 21 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • I’m pretty sure that breaks a law of science or two..: Inhabit – Australia’s first carbon-positive prefab house produces more energy than it consumes
  • Potential leap forward? Or party game?: Metro – Mad scientist becomes superhuman after gaining night vision power
  • Perhaps they can see in the dark, too.: Discover – Real-Life Vampires Exist, and Researchers Are Studying Them
• Space Intentionally Not Left Blank:
  • The answer is both shorter than you think, and longer than you have patience for.: Live Science – How Long Would It Take to Fall Through the Earth?
  • Yo dawg.. I… wont’ dignify that parody by repeating it.: Wired – NASA’s Plan to Give the Moon a Moon
  • Let’s hope it’s not an optical illusion.. And they are close enough to detect radio waves, aren’t they?: New Scientist – Twin Earths may lurk in our nearest star system
  • We will see them by their wake and drag. Just like Nessie!: MIT Technology Review – Spacecraft Traveling Close to Light Speed Should Be Visible With Current Technology, Say Engineers
  • The trouble with popular terms like “force field” is that when science finally gets around to using them, they use them incorrectly..: Trusted Reviews – Boeing spins sci-fi into reality with force field patent
  • I suppose he just wants to get out in front of his name being used as an expletive by scientists: “What the Hawking are you doing?”: Live Science – Stephen Hawking Wants to Trademark His Name
  • (EXTRA) Shades of Hawking! “Oh great, Mildred: you should have Hawkinged that result. Now the whole galaxy will know what we’ve done!”: The NY Times – Should We Keep a Low Profile in Space?
• Unscenery:
  • (EXTRA) I like big bucks and I cannot lie/ Them other babies can’t deny..: New Scientist – A big bank balance leads to big-brained babies
  • (EXTRA) Our language is insufficient. We should turn to binary, I say!: New Scientist – English speakers, you stink at identifying smells
  • (EXTRA) How we’ve ruined food by peer pressure..: New Scientist – Why food is rarely the simple pleasure it once was
  • (EXTRA) Turns out: we forget things we don’t like. That’s why we write them down, clearly!: New Scientist – Natural disaster amnesia: Threats we choose to forget
  • (EXTRA) Ever laughed in a movie theatre at a joke that wasn’t that funny? Or cried because others are sad? Is this surprising?: Discover – We Get Infected By Other People’s Emotions — And That’s a Good Thing
  • (EXTRA) Do you believe in strange, intangible things, like UFOs, ghosts and love?: The Daily Grail – Love at First Fort? Kreskin’s Supernatural Dating Service
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) It’s more like a hat.. or a shell cozy.. A shell prosthetic?: Metro – A tortoise has a brand new shell made from a 3D printer after her old one was damaged
  • (EXTRA) To think: I’ve been just giving this stuff away!: LiveScience – Solid Gold: Poop Could Yield Precious Metals
  • (EXTRA) Everybody’s doing it! Poor Einstein..: LiveScience – Proving Einstein Wrong with ‘Spooky’ Quantum Experiment
  • (EXTRA) Good to see that cutbacks haven’t hit the… oh, wait..: LiveScience – Kitty Litter to Blame for Nuclear Waste Leak
  • (EXTRA) The ultimate prank — or the ultimate destiny sculptor?: Mysterious Universe – The Eerie Enigma of Cicada 3301

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