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; Mind Your Please and Cues; Why-Tech; CQ: Will the present-day cultures we identify ourselves with have any meaning once we have transitioned into an inter-planetary species — or will they mean even more? Full list of 15 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Front Page Don’t Mind The World Universal Universe CQ: Do we have to design and build a utopia in order to sustainably move into space — or even move into the future? Full list of 21 articles after the jump! Front Page: I was 99% there — and then there […]
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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I love theatre! So much that I can talk about it off-the-cuff for an hour.
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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: Prosthetic Fallacy; Interview: Sharon Lee (medium); CQ: On board the arkships in a thousand years, will we still hold to superstitions or have moved “beyond” them?
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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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Front Page
Let’s Finally Deal With This Crap
OFU’s
CQ: What is the most disappointing shortcoming of a commonplace modern technological invention?
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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?
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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; Mind CTRL-ALT-DEL; Unnatural History; CQ: Would the discovery of alien gear — but not aliens themselves! — which would catapult humanity technologically forward thousands of years tear humanity apart, or would we easily adapt to it?
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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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Poo buses, hangover-less drinks and a bigfoot story.. CQ: Does it matter whether we fear or embrace the big changes, like contact with alien civilizations and the growth of artificial intelligence, or should we just prepare to accept them, like it or not?
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On the show this week:
Front Page
Inside Perspective
War on Terra
Extras
CQ: If we could create an AI and give it the seeming personality of a character from a novel, movie or other story, which AI personality would you want to give you advice?
Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
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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 Brain Drain Inverse Universe CQ: Is a very active imagination a luxury or a valued asset? Full list of 23 articles after the jump! Front Page: I blame the molemen!: Unknown source: – Mystery tunnel found near Pan Am Games venue SEE!?! They even *mention* the mole people!: […]
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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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On the show this week: Front Page Life is Full of Crap Pre-Justice Re-History Science Tests Re-Taken CQ: Do you think that humanity will ever need to make a hundred-year plan for the future — or even be able of it? Full list of 23 articles after the jump! Front Page: Yup, sounds like Canadian […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Cats and Dogs, Therefore: Apocalypse Patterns, Therefore: SCIENCE! CQ: Should computer science be a fundamental topic in elementary school? Full list of 16 articles after the jump! Front Page: Sometimes, you just don’t have a bag when you need it..: Orange – Man in watermelon mask scares passengers […]
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On the show this week:
Front Page
Prize The Dead
Science Gone Rightly Wrong
Extras
CQ: What will the first folk song conceived on Mars be about?
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On the show this week: Front Page Your Brain On Thugs Extras CQ: Will we ever eliminate the need for sleep? And should we? This is the last planned, regular episode for this year, but there may be some bonus content in the next couple of weeks. I’m planning another Redictions episode! (Redictions = Ridiculous […]
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