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: 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: 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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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: 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: The Sky is Falling; Whatever Floats Your Boast; I Think (not); Extras; CQ: Suppose we found pretty solid evidence that the world was coming to an end in 100 years. Do you think we could leave in time? And how would we try? Full list of 23 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Head In The Sky; Elementary; Health Stealth; Intangible Awards; Animal Life; Inventions For An Alternate Present; CQ: Is it more important to have a broad life, or a deep life — and more important to whom? Full list of 21 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Space In Your Eyes; Space Between Your Eyes; Extra Space; Nothing; CQ: Is it possible for a country to completely reinvent itself, shedding off all of its historical baggage (and positive traditions) — and can we ask the same of a person? Full list of 13 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: $pace; Out Think It Through; Behave Like Animals; Play time; Extras; CQ: Do we need semantic units like inches and feet or rational units like meters — or both? Full list of 20 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Space Transit Pass * Bio Mass Illucidation * Things That May Not Be There * CQ: Has the Internet fundamentally changed the way that humans communicate, or merely allowed us to communicate more fully in the ways we already have?
Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Tricks of Light; The Oil and Grass Industry; Extras; CQ: How do we inspire culture to make recycling of EVERYTHING the highest priority, so that we don’t kill ourselves with our garbage?
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On the show this week: Space Grace Rate; Speaking of Science; Extras; CQ: Do we have to be faced with downsizing (say, for space travel..) before we start to think about the entirely lifetime of our stuff? Full list of articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Rent For Space; We’re All In Your Mind; Self-Doubting Cars; Insightation Needed; Noisy Space; Extras; CQ: Will the current wave of political and cultural awareness about privilege, power and equity make it less likely that we will create robots as subservient entities, or more likely to avoid attempting to give them free will? Full list of 18 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
The Eye More Than Meats
A Little More Than Flesh, A Little Less Than Metal
You Think It’s An Illusion
Extras
CQ: Which is better: to intensely get to know the area you are in, or to travel widely but never stay in one place very long?
Full list of 19 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: They Like To Move It (Move It); Nothing To Be Here, Move Along; Inventions For A New Future; Extras; CQ: What’s written in your missing manual of life? Name one thing which you learned as an adult that you realize you should have known as a child. Then name a second one. And a third.
Full list of 16 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Front Page; Big Issues; Small Issues; Extra Issues; CQ: Will an artificially-intelligent product of humanity ever be granted the rights of a human, and will that happen before or after extraterrestrial aliens are granted similar rights? Full list of 19 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Front Page; 2 Eyes, 1 Cat; Climate Chains; CQ: Are categorical boundaries ever consistently useful, or is our current dissolution of solid definitions a recognition of the truly changeable quantum state of the universe?
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On the show this week: Front Page; Outer Personal Space; A Long Suspicious Look At Life; Extras; CQ: What pointless ritual do you perform that means a lot to you and you alone?
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On the show this week: Front Page; Virtual Virtues; Prosthetic Fallacy; Universal Attraction; CQ: What’s one thing from today — a technology, an idiom, a cultural feature — that will survive to be recognizeable 5000 years from now — and what’s one thing that will almost make it, but not quite?
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On the show this week:
Front Page
Ghosts In The Machine
Bleeding Hedge Technology
CQ: Given that so many great things come out mistakes, coincidences and serendipity, should we be so immediately dismissive of errors?
Full list of 21 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Front Page; Involution; In Your Head; Extras; CQ: Should convicted criminals with life sentences or death sentences be allowed to serve instead as space explorers — and is that a more or less humane option? Full list of 20 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Front Page Space Intentionally Not Left Blank Unscenery Extras CQ: If you could fool the entire world into doing something good, what would it be about? Full list of 21 articles after the jump! Front Page: I’m pretty sure that breaks a law of science or two..: Inhabit – Australia’s […]
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On the show this week:
Front Page
Simulated Truths
More Than Meets The Eyes
Extras
CQ: What will a post-social media society look like? Or will there even be one?
Full list of 21 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Front Page All Space No Mind Extras CQ: Has crowdfunding reached a plateau, or is it just getting started? Promo: CAFFEEN! — I’ve done this music show for years now, but in the last few years it has become a story-telling odyssey through post-rock, soundtrack, minimalist, ambient and awesome wordless […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Things of Internet Winter is Coming CQ: Science fiction often projects this, but: should humanity have one, unified, consistent world government, and what could that look like? Promo: The Flash Pulp Podcast (http://flashpulp.com) – An incredible series of pulp-style stories told over a multiverse of styles and often […]
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