On the show this week:

• 2-Way Mirror Shades
• Distance Education
• Mind Love
• Outertainment

CQ: Do we have the obligation to change the world — or the obligation to change ourselves to fit in the world?

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Full list of 14 articles after the jump!

• 2-Way Mirror Shades:
  • There can be eyes everywhere..: Mysterious Universe – Flexible Camera May Wrap Around Any Surface
  • I know this area like the back of my hand..: New Scientist – Turn your skin into a screen with a super-thin digital display
  • In case you were wondering how the implants would be talked to..: UPI – Researchers stream HD video through chunks of raw meat
  • Remember when everyone customized their Windows desktops, too?: New Scientist – Don’t like the buttons on your toaster? Just print your own
  • So, are we manipulating the world, or ourselves?: The Washington Post – Cuckoo clocks? Venezuela shifting time hoping to save energy
  • Or are we thinking in reverse?: New Scientist – The layout of QWERTY keyboards shapes our feelings about words
  • I wonder if it has recursion?: Mysterious Universe – A New Programming Language Designed for Living Cells
• Distance Education:
  • (EXTRA) A source of “dark matter”, or just chalk it up to “space is big”?: Gizmodo – A Giant Galaxy Orbiting Our Own Just Appeared Out of Nowhere
  • (EXTRA) Through photographs, only in 3D.: New Scientist – How to explore Guatemala’s Mayan ruins from 4500 kilometres away
  • (EXTRA) Where is the line between appreciation and appropriation?: The Austria Local – (O) Chinese continue to appropriate Austrian culture
• Mind Love:
  • (EXTRA) Clearly, feminism has a way to go in Russia — or is this a different kind of feminism?: Fusion – Inside the strange, retro world of Russian ‘womanhood schools’
  • (EXTRA) How much do we really know about each other? And how much do we really need to fall in love?: New Scientist – Metadating helps you find love based on your everyday data
• Outertainment:
  • (EXTRA) I’m sure it ends on a cliffhanger..: The UK Daily Mail – Welcome to the world’s most boring movie: Even the TRAILER is seven hours long for 30-day Swedish art film
  • (EXTRA) It turns out: the ultimate escape from life might just be the ultimate escape from a room.: LA Times – Escape rooms are becoming a breakout form of entertainment

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