On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Let’s Finally Deal With This Crap
- OFU’s
CQ: What is the most disappointing shortcoming of a commonplace modern technological invention?
Full list of 15 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- English: winning by being the least unpopular one..: New Scientist – Scientific Babel: Why English rules
- Funny, I just needed to go to high school dances to experience this..: New Scientist – (O) Illusion allows people to feel what it is like to be invisible
- It’s the holidays: someone boot up Grampa!: Discover Magazine – (O) When Robot Personalities Mimic the Dead
- Repeat after me: a photograph is not a person..: TechRadar – (O) Could virtual reality bring your loved ones back from the dead?
- It would be really great to have some focussed geniuses looking at this.: LiveScience – Child Prodigies and Autism: Is There a Genetic Link?
- Let’s Finally Deal With This Crap:
- It’s one part Aliens, one part toxic farts..: New Scientist – Beetle blasts toxic spray of hot chemicals from its rear end
- And when Spiderman was accidentally bitten by a spider, and then accidentally sprayed with graphene..: New Scientist – Spiders sprayed with graphene or carbon nanotubes spin super silk
- Just giving this stuff away!: LiveScience – (O) Solid Gold: Poop Could Yield Precious Metals
- This story rings a bell..: New Scientist – (O) Direct probing of brain reveals multiple regions cause tinnitus
- OFU’s:
- (EXTRA) Apparently, hundreds of years passing by means more than one civilization may have seen really old things.: LiveScience – Mysterious Nazca Line Geoglyphs Formed Ancient Pilgrimage Route
- (EXTRA) And yet there is not absolute, honest or even really truthful about this story. It’s not even about UFOs!: Macleans – The absolute, honest truth about UFOs
- (EXTRA) Apparently, there are some who take aliens seriously..: Vice – The Very Serious Business of Figuring Out How Earth Will Handle First Contact with Aliens
- (EXTRA) Like, really HUGE.: Metro – (O) If aliens exist then they’re absolutely massive, scientist claims
- (EXTRA) It’s kinda the equivelent of “We hit a person on the toe with a hammer, so therefore all stubbed toes are caused by hammers” explanation..: Live Science – Out-of-Body Experience Is Traced in the Brain
- (EXTRA) An article drove this writer out of his mind, at least..: Daily Grail – Science Claims OBE’s Solved, Yet Again! But Is It Really?
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