On the show this week: Breaking The Rules; Broken; Lost and Found; Halloween & Costumes; CQ: With costumes and cosplay becoming more common and accessible, will costumes become part of more people’s casual wardrobe?
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On the show this week: Breaking The Rules; Broken; Lost and Found; Halloween & Costumes; CQ: With costumes and cosplay becoming more common and accessible, will costumes become part of more people’s casual wardrobe?
Full list of 10 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Packin’ My Space Bags; Things We Have Done; All In Your Head; CQ: Once we have accepted robots as thinking beings, will we ever accept them as rulers and bosses?
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On the show this week: Unusual Science; Usual Science; Animal Science; Unanimal Science; CQ: Is there any moral difference between creating an artificial intelligence on a computer or a new biological entity capable of thinking?
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On the show this week: Knowledge Remix; History Remix; Techno Remix; CQ: Now that the VCR is no longer being made and the headphone port is possibly in its dying days, what other beloved but outdated piece of tech, gadgetry or wired connection will likely get phased out soon?
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On the show this week: It’s a Pretty Big Place; Heart Official Intelligence; Leftovers CQ: What sort of government would a colony arcship travelling for 20 years to a distant planet have?
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On the show this week: Mass Hystericals; Cold End of the Universe; Thinking It Through; Techno Logical; CQ: Look at your daily routine of regular activity and project forward: what will be a quotidian activity two hundred years from now?
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On the show this week: Survival; The Pain In Rain Is The Main; Active Mentality; Mental Activity; SExtras; CQ: What’s a philosophical question you’ve yet to find a satisfactory answer for?
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On the show this week: Survival; The Pain In Rain Is The Main; Active Mentality; Mental Activity; SExtras; CQ: What’s a philosophical question you’ve yet to find a satisfactory answer for?
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On the show this week: Thinking About It; Japanimated; Space Between Your Fears; Death is a Plug-in; What Are, Water, Everywhere? CQ: Presume that humans that grew up on different planets are genetically modified — whether by nature or science — and therefore more adapted to different environments. Would they still be eligible for the Olympics?
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On the show this week: Space Rocks; It Thinks It Can’t; Still, Life; Mind interfering with Matter; There Are No Words; CQ: Which will come first: Homo Sapiens Roboticus, in which symbiotic AI are merged with human beings, or Roboticus Sapiens, in which free-will robots exist on their own right? Why? Full list of 22 articles after the jump!
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A recording of my panel at Balticon 50, an oddly-improv’d discussion called “Looking at the world in a WEIRD way”.
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On the show this week: Patient, Heal Thy Self; CQ: Everybody compared inventions for ages as “the best thing since sliced bread”. Tell me a modern equivalent: what’s an invention in the last 20 years that seems relatively simple, but which has made the greatest impact to daily life?
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On the show this week: Places Lost And Found; True Tales of Medical Fiction; Mechanical Animal; Some Call It The Dance; Triumph of Belief; Food For Naught; There Are No Small Inventions; CQ: Has humanity already transformed sufficiently to make current standard age ranges covering “child”, “adult” and “old adult” meaningless — and are they too ingrained to change? Why?
Full list of 27 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Well Isn’t That Spacial; Science Friction-less; Extras; CQ: Which is better: seeking to uplift animals to near- or above-human intelligence, or creating entirely new, artificial intelligent beings? Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
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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?
Feedback from Rich the TT!
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On the show this week: Real Virtual; Look To The Skies; Robots Art Changing; Environmental Relapse; Displaced Extras; CQ: What should people be taught: what they *should* know, or what they *need* to know?
Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Improbable Byproduct; Emotional Journey; Transferring Science Credits; Off This Rockl CQ: When it comes to the days-of-the-week in the future, we will just extend or shorten the list of named days we currently use, or invent entirely new names for them. What new names will we use? Full list of 16 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Virtually Intelligent Thing To Do; Universal Discrimination; History Teaches Us Nothing; Extrasl CQ: Who will win the space race: the military, scientists, the civilians, or the business sector? And what will “winning” look like?
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On the show this week: Non-traditional Animals (a little); Life is Hard; Organic Life; Unidentified Fluential Object; CQ: The challenge this week is: support the station which has supported this show for its entire life — and now supports Mark directly! Join our Patreon campaign at http://patreon.com/chsr979 or donate at http://chsrfm.ca/donate
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On the show this week: Edge Science; Non-traditional Animals; CQ: The challenge this week is: support the station which has supported this show for its entire life — and now supports Mark directly! Join our Patreon campaign at http://patreon.com/chsr979 or donate at http://chsrfm.ca/donate . Full list of 7 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Political Space; Fixing Things Today; Hidden Reality; Not What You Think; In The Wild; Extras; CQ: If you could live life as someone else — from any time period in any place — for one day only, who would it be?
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On the show this week: Political Space; Fixing Things Today; Hidden Reality; Not What You Think; In The Wild; Extras; CQ: If you could live life as someone else — from any time period in any place — for one day only, who would it be?
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On the show this week: Political Space; Fixing Things Today; Hidden Reality; Not What You Think; In The Wild; Extras; CQ: If you could live life as someone else — from any time period in any place — for one day only, who would it be?
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On the show this week: Sensical; Cycle of Life; What the Hack?; A Bad Idea At The Time; Extras; CQ: Should the half-life of an original movie be about 20 years before a remake is not only accepted but expected? Shorter? Longer? Why? Full list of 25 articles after the jump!
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