On the show this week: Grown-up Toys; Smells Like Success; Legend… ERROR; CQ: Which is more likely: we’ll grow more concentrated within cities, using the efficiency of large-scale operations to deal with population growth — or will we spread out and create more smaller communities, filling up the vast uninhabited spaces?
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On the show this week: Grown-up Toys; Smells Like Success; Legend… ERROR; CQ: Which is more likely: we’ll grow more concentrated within cities, using the efficiency of large-scale operations to deal with population growth — or will we spread out and create more smaller communities, filling up the vast uninhabited spaces?
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On the show this week: The Code For Success; Legend… ERROR; Smells Like Success; Toys On A Different Scale; Far Sighted; CQ: Are we being selfish and unrealistic when we assume that identity comes only from within? Full list of 24 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: Hard AI; Soft AI; Little Space; These Are The Rules (?); Extras; CQ: Clarke’s Third law states: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” but do you think we’ll ever get technology that could actually be mistaken for magic as we see it portrayed today? Full list of 22 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Dumb Animals; Smart Inventions; Body Breaks; Experimental Animals; CQ: What did you leave behind that you’d like to revisit? Full list of 15 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Learning To Fail; Apocalypse How?; Future Toys; Future Imperfect; CQ: What would you do if you thought that existence was about to end in 5 minutes? Full list of 19 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Astronomical Odds; Sun Scream; Small Inventions; Hot Topics; Future Doctor’s Appointments; Virtuallly On Topic; CQ: What mythical creature would you have as a pet, and why? Full list of 19 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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Time to gaze into the crystal ball, struggle to see anything coherent, then just make it all up anyway! Redictions 2016!
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On the show this week: First World Problems; Starring The Wars; Inverted Expectation; Extras; CQ: If some lessons can truly only be learned by encountering them in fiction, what stories should we tell to the AI to give them a better chance of turning out good?
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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: How Do You Mind? * Transitions In Space * UF Those * Extras * CQ: Is there a place for “citizen science”, or does science need to stay within brick institutions to be legit?
Full list of 16 articles after the jump!
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Hal-Con 2015 interviews (part two), with: Gavin Buhr, Emily Perkins, Lenore Zann and Jeff Russell.
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The first of two interview episodes from Hal-Con 2015. I spoke with Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Kat Kruger and Amber Benson.
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On the show this week: Mind Bullets; Bee/Movies; CQ: Have we really invented any new scares for mankind, or are they just window dressing over things that frightening the more primitive animal ancestors?
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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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In the show this week: Perceptive Problems; Knowledge Lost & Found; To Nobel or To Ig Nobel; Extras; CQ: If we mine asteroids and other planets for their resources and bring them back to Earth, will we *overstock* the Earth with things?
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On the show this week:
Displaced From Dat Place
Inventive
Slight Unseen
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: 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: Animals Are Aliens; Stray Thoughts; Oack A Lunch For A VERY Long Trip; Extras; CQ: Should we teach philosophy as much as we teach mathematics? Full list of 18 articles after the jump!
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