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?
Full list of 19 articles after the jump!
- Survival:
- I think this is a subtle reference to Game of Thrones, but I can’t quite put my flipper on it..: Unknown source: – Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuing animals from orcas
- No, the cows aren’t really the cause, but they might be the accomplice.: LiveScience – Why Amish Kids Get Less Asthma: It’s the Cows
- I believe that’s a superpower; either that, or it’s the same thing I’ve done when driving on a long trip..: New Scientist – First proof birds snooze in flight without dropping out of sky
- How will the human animal change?: LiveScience – Bizarre-Looking ‘Graham’ More Likely Than You to Survive Car Collision
- I believe we have a new contender for most expensive cheese I’m not going to eat..: CTV News – Finely aged? Divers find 17th-century cheese in Baltic shipwreck
- The Pain In Rain Is The Main:
- Yes, the showers ARE stronger than you remembered from childhood..: Bloomberg – Forget Tornadoes. Rain Bombs Are Coming for Your Town
- What’s scientific about painting something with an unfair brush?: ABC Australia – Scientific crop circle research held back by links to UFO conspiracies
- (EXTRA) I think the horse left that stable a LOONG time ago..: Metro – (O) Pokemon Go ‘a death culture created by capitalism’ says Venezuelan President
- (EXTRA) I’m sure it will be fine! Now, about that spaceship to Mars..: CTV News – (O) Extinction-level asteroid could collide with Earth in 2175
- (EXTRA) Do they know something I don’t?: LiveScience – (O) Remote Antarctic Library Would ‘Protect Ice Memory’
- Active Mentality:
- (EXTRA) The answer will take too long to type.: LiveScience – What’s the Fastest Language to Type In?
- (EXTRA) These things are often only intentional afterwards..: Unknown source: – (O) Skydiver Luke Aikins Sets Record For Highest Jump Without Parachute
- (EXTRA) I’m pretty sure this is just because there’s a new Harry Potter book out..: Sky News – Physical Book Sales Rocket As Digital Dips
- (EXTRA) Philosophy in physical form.: BBC – The politics of a martial arts book fair in Hong Kong
- Mental Activity:
- (EXTRA) Do we need better opening lines, or to just stop thinking opening lines are important?: Science Alert – (O) Here’s the science behind why small talk is so awkward — and so essential
- (EXTRA) The story is quite mesmerizing.. : The New York Times – (O) Is Hypnosis All in Your Head? Brain Scans Suggest Otherwise
- (EXTRA) A superpower and a curse.: News.com.au – The mind-boggling life of Becky Sharrock, one of the few people in the world who remembers everything
- (EXTRA) I think it’s time we had a female Doctor scientist (who rocks!).: LiveScience – ‘Doctor Who’ Scientists: How Do Women Measure Up?
- SExtras:
- (EXTRA) It could just be a robot! Sex is not required!: The UK Daily Mail – How to build your own SEX ROBOT: Inventor to publish handbook after success of his Scarlett Johansson lookalike droid
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