On the show this week:
- Front Page
- VERY Hard Science
- Bio Break
- Extras
CQ: Does science have to be serious, or is there a place for humour?
Full list of 23 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- When you want to be very, very alone..: Gothamist – You Can Buy This Abandoned CT Town
- It’s a water drain. OF EVIL. Or water.: Unknown source: – Portal to Hell in Blue Ash, Ohio
- A different level of scare..: WXYZ ABC/Scripps – Lawsuit: Clowns with sex toys assaulted haunted house patrons
- Is it a Joker festival?: The Local of France – Vigilantes held as clown panic spreads in France
- Maybe it’s a tulpa summoning..: The UK Mirror – Evil Clowns Arrested
- It makes your coffee stand at attention!: Swiss Info – Creamer packaging features Hitler and Mussolini mugs
- VERY Hard Science:
- I wonder if they found a 4001-year old CD player, too..: Yahoo! UK – Mystery of 4,000-year-old ‘CD-ROM’ is solved
- It’s a different kind of spooky action at a distance..: New Scientist – Ultrasound makes hologram keyboard touchy-feely
- It’s like watching a movie in slow motion, but at least it’s happening..: New Scientist – Asteroid miners to launch first private space telescope
- The world is pretty strange, from a certain point of view..: Mental Floss – The Weird Physics of H.P. Lovecraft’s “Corpse-City,” R’lyeh
- For every action, there may be a whole host of equal reactions, just not all in the same universe..: Physics Centra – Quantum Mechanics from a Classical Multiverse
- Is the Internet it’s own country?: New Scientist – Legalise online protests to safeguard democracy
- Bio Break:
- (EXTRA) Well, I’m glad that was settled..: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – Lukashenka: No Toilet Paper In Belarusian Sausage
- (EXTRA) We can judge the level of concern over this disease by the level of technological discovery around it..: New Scientist – Biological litmus paper detects Ebola strains
- (EXTRA) I’m torn between fascinated and … ew..: New Scientist – Virus recreated after 700 years in icy caribou poo
- (EXTRA) Oh well, turns the obvious problems were.. obvious.: The UK Independent – Jack the Ripper: Scientist who claims to have identified notorious killer has ‘made serious DNA error’
- (EXTRA) Would someone win the reverse bet?: Nature – Doctor bets against traditional Chinese medicine
- (EXTRA) A red-hot clue, or a missing opportunity?: Scotland Now – Unseen infrared image of Loch Ness Monster Nessie to be revealed at Paranormal Festival
- (EXTRA) I blame Nessie.: New Scientist – Arctic melt means more severe winters likely – for now
- (EXTRA) This one doesn’t just predict the weather, it CONTROLS it. (No, not really.): New Scientist – UK to build world’s biggest weather supercomputer
- (EXTRA) Because computers > humans?: Nature – Italian seismologists fight to overturn convictions
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) What leftover junk do you have in *your* living room?: The UK Daily Mail – 3,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus that once held a mummy discovered in living room of Essex pensioner
- (EXTRA) Ah! A much better use for junk!: BBC – Russia: Man fights off bear with old computer
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