On the show this week:
- Front Page
- That Is Not Dead
- Information Society
CQ: Will English (or any other base language, for that matter) eventually absorb every other language and become universal, or will we always have vastly different languages?
Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- It’s time to question whether money is the measure of anything important, or just convenient.: New Scientist – It’s time to let national happiness guide political policy
- What are you willing to give up for efficiency? : New Scientist – UK people happy to cut energy use, but wary of smart meters
- I support this, if only to improve our diet in deep space.: Wired – Cow Milk Without the Cow Is Coming to Change Food Forever
- A personal tale of seeing a UFO, then covering it up.: New York Daily News – Do pilots believe in UFOs? Many of them do and here is my close encounter story
- Are misquotes unethical or stupid?: De Void/Herald-Tribune – One more small thing
- That Is Not Dead:
- Where does “life” begin and “not life” end?: OZY – The Man Who May One-Up Darwin
- We’re the antagonists in these stories, and they are the villains? Or is that backward?: New Scientist – Microbes play villainous role in Arctic climate change
- It’s a dog-eat-microbe kinda biological world..: New Scientist – The first complex life on Earth got eaten to extinction
- I suppose normally they are the “ghost” of honour instead..: Sunderland Echo – Sunderland man is guest of honour at his own wake
- (EXTRA) I Imagine a row of heads of your ancestors, all consulted for advice..: Discover Magazine – When Robot Personalities Mimic the Dead
- (EXTRA) Is the real promise of the future not that we will live long enough to live forever, but live long enough to never be forgotten?: TechRadar – Could virtual reality bring your loved ones back from the dead?
- Information Society:
- (EXTRA) This would be so much easier if we had a permanent port installed..: New Scientist – (O) Injectable lab finds your best cancer drug by trying many at once
- (EXTRA) Your brain: it can’t even.: New Scientist – Weird dream? Your brain won’t even try to make sense of it
- (EXTRA) A very Clarkian technology..: New Scientist – (O) Digital tattoo lets you control devices with mind power alone
- (EXTRA) There is a Big Lie, and your Brain is telling it to you.: New Scientist – (O) Illusion allows people to feel what it is like to be invisible
- (EXTRA) While we’re at it, let’s get rid of those snooping birds, too!: New Scientist – The no-drone zone: How to stop UAVs spying on us from above
- (EXTRA) Just in time for the Ant-Man movie!: New Scientist – Tiny robots climb walls carrying more than 100 times their weight
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