On the show this week:
- Virtually Intelligent Thing To Do
- Universal Discrimination
- History Teaches Us Nothing
- Extras
CQ: Who will win the space race: the military, scientists, the civilians, or the business sector? And what will “winning” look like?
Full list of 16 articles after the jump!
- Virtually Intelligent Thing To Do:
- Maybe we learned more about human intelligence than we wanted to..: The Guardian – Now anyone can build their own version of Microsoft’s racist, sexist chatbot Tay
- The real challenge: predicting the weather!: TechRadar – Robots will soon control the weather
- It’s not as ominous as it sounds…: LiveScience – Physicists Unleash AI to Devise Unthinkable Experiments
- Wasn’t this about a guy, and his ants..?: LiveScience – Scientists Hijack Bugs, Turn Them into Cyborgs
- Arguably, it’s not really ready for normal reality anyway…: The Daily Dot – Your brain isn’t ready for virtual reality
- Universal Discrimination:
- (EXTRA) This is my sad face.
: LiveScience – This Negative Facial Expression Is ‘Universal’ - Do we make better students by making easier schools?: AZFamily/3TV/AP – Is algebra an unnecessary stumbling block in US schools?
- (EXTRA) What do we settle on, when there is no right (or left) answer?: Motherboard – Right for Men, Left for Women: Why Are Gendered Buttons Still a Thing?
- (EXTRA) How long and how much should your past haunt you? Especially when it’s nto really that bad?: The Sun – Too hot to teach: Aspiring teacher fired from primary school job because she used to be a model
- (EXTRA) This is my sad face.
- History Teaches Us Nothing:
- (EXTRA) Just wait until they try Soylent Green..: Fast Company – The Weird Subculture Of Gourmet Soylent
- (EXTRA) Don’t they rank crimes by importance or something?: WSOCTV – Concord man accused of not returning VHS rental 14 years later
- (EXTRA) Ok, now I really know why they want the tapes back.. Excuse me while I check my old boxes..: The UK Daily Mirror – The old VHS tapes now worth £1,500 revealed – could you have a fortune in your living room cupboard?
- (EXTRA) I know that permanence is an illusion, but this is a bit much..: Yahoo! Finance – Welcome to Japan – Where homes are thrown away after one generation
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) Um.. Yeah.. : Fox News – President Eisenhower’s great-granddaughter says vegan diets could attract extraterrestrial life
- (EXTRA) I’m sure they’re going to try to get the nuclear power plant to pay for it..: NPR – Ready, Set, Freeze: Japan Prepares To Switch On Fukushima ‘Ice Wall’
- (EXTRA) Is it like a photograph, or a substitute for a good memory?: LiveScience – Print Your Hike! 3D Keepsakes Memorialize Mountain Conquests
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