On the show this week:

• What Were They Thinking
• Thought For Food
• Things Go Wrong

CQ: What would you suggest someone start doing to reduce tech waste and tech abandonment for the future?

Full list of 16 articles after the jump!

• What Were They Thinking:
  • Fraud is the cancer of papers..: ars tecnica – 107 cancer papers retracted due to peer review fraud
  • That 77-year old is a punk!: Mother News Network – 14-year-old you is nothing like 77-year-old you
  • Predictably, I have nothing but the expected comment here.: New Scientist – Our ability to think in a random way peaks at 25 then declines
  • They see possibility where others just see the world..: New Scientist – Creative people physically see and process the world differently
  • They don’t literally flash — at least until the cybernetics kicked in.: LiveScience – Your Eyes Reveal When You’re About to Have a Flash of Insight
  • Clearly, the brain was over-engineered by a research student..: Big Think – Scientists Are Attempting to Unlock the Secret Potential of the Human Brain
• Thought For Food:
  • (EXTRA) Finally: physics catches up with mathematics in creating things that shouldn’t exist..: LiveScience – (O) Bizarre Superfluid with Negative Mass Created in a Lab
  • (EXTRA) And by ‘solve’, we really mean ‘got a clue’.: Mysterious Universe – (O) Russian Mathematicians Solve the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript
  • (EXTRA) See? Apocalypse as exercise routine! We got this.: LiveScience – Silver Lining? Climate Change Could Make Americans More Fit
  • (EXTRA) Nature’s scientific experiments are starting to produce dividends.: New Scientist – Plastic-munching caterpillars may show us how to dissolve waste
  • (EXTRA) A turning point, or just another path?: Reuters – (O) UK-based start-up hopes to cut plastic waste with innovative water balls
  • (EXTRA) Clearly, he’s trying to compensate for all the trees that have been saved..: UK Daily Mail – Wood you believe it? Pakistani man, 50, is addicted to eating TREES after starting to munch on leaves when he was so poor he couldn’t afford food
• Things Go Wrong:
  • (EXTRA) ‘We prefer the term ”LIBERATOR”.’: Metro – Russian deputy PM insists shooting robot is ‘not a Terminator’
  • (EXTRA) Alien immigration is going well, I see..: Mysterious Universe – Canadian UFO Research Group Reports 1,131 Sightings in 2016
  • (EXTRA) Seems legit.: New Scientist – Ancient carvings show comet hit Earth and triggered mini ice age
  • (EXTRA) Yes? Maybe.. ? No, probably not.: The Daily Grail – Do Engravings at the Ancient Megalithic Site of Göbekli Tepe Record a Catastrophic Comet Strike 12,000 Years Ago?

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