TWS234: Nothing Comes From Nothing, Except Everything

TWS234: Nothing Comes From Nothing, Except Everything

CQ: What seemingly trivial piece of knowledge or amazing mystery would you like to have solved, either from time travel or the serious (and possibly silly and slightly wasteful) application of SCIENCE!?

On the show this week:

• Front Page
• Nothing Is Certainly Uncertain
• Not Quite As Promised
• Extras

Full list of 25 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • How could they tell it from the local stuff? DNA tests?: Toronto Sun – Missing Quebec maple syrup found in New Brunswick
  • At first, I thought it was one big cheese ring. I thought it was broken because it was too dry.: BBC – Canada cheese-smuggling ring busted – policeman charged
  • The rest of the world has a lot more dangerous smuggling issues than we do..: News.com.au/AAP – Dutch customs find hundreds of tarantulas
  • I knew that copper was going for good prices on the market, but this is not what I expected..: Orange – Cardboard copper stolen from supermarket
• Nothing Is Certainly Uncertain:
  • The annual celebration of serious science that we all find hard to take seriously..: Improbable Research – The 2012 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
  • I’m not he wasn’t joking, really..: Futurity/University of Toronto – Uncertainty principle: Was Heisenberg too pessimistic?
  • I haven’t read this study yet. Until I do, I won’t know for sure if the idea is any good or not. (And probably not even then..): New Scientist – Quantum measurements leave Schrödinger’s cat alive
  • Is it all destined to collapse? Or have we jumped out of the cycle?: BBC – Conflict and ‘boom-bust’ explain humans’ rapid evolution
  • Is all our progress really an illusion, because we are surrounded by it?: New Scientist – Busted! The myth of technological progress
  • Another dissenting opinion suggesting that we shouldn’t be so proud of this technological marvel, which pales in comparison with the power of the Force. Or something like that..: New Scientist – The Singularity is upon us? Not so fast
  • In other words: how can we learn something in those times when we are generally avoiding learning something?: Myth-OS – Singularity Now: Is “Daydream Learning” Possible?
  • The world ends all the time. The least we can do it learn from it..: FOX/AP – Experts meet to discuss Maya calendar, debunk end-of-world stories
  • If you fail to learn from history, you are doomed to repeat yourself in the future. Until you shoot yourself in the past. Or something like that..: NBC News/LiveScience – Is ‘Looper’-like time travel possible? Scientists say maybe
  • Not to mention: EVERYTHING IN HISTORY. Just sayin’.. Think big!: io9 – Six mysteries that could be solved with time travel
  • (EXTRA) Even if it’s a poor metaphor for work actually done, it would probably still make some jobs a lot cooler — and less likely to fall asleep at. (I say we do this with counter jobs..): New Scientist – The real Tron: IT security as a shoot ’em up
  • The most obvious questions often take the longest to realize: what else might we find surrounding this invention’s resting place?: The Guardian – Return to Antikythera: Divers revisit wreck where ancient computer found
• Not Quite As Promised:
  • (EXTRA) I know that fashion can be rather addictive and attractive, but I don’t think people should let it go to their head like this..: Orange – Bagel head body art trend
  • (EXTRA) It probably takes balls to drink it, too..: Orange – New beer is made from bull testicles
  • (EXTRA) With my luck, it would be stuck on deplorable modern country…: Metro – Dentist creates musical drill to ease patients’ chair fears
  • (EXTRA) An emergence of the Wendigo? Bigfoot? Or a bear?: Cryptomundo – Update: Nunavut-Quebec Bigfoot/Giant Sightings/New Radio Interview Time
  • (EXTRA) Well, if it was stale rye, that might count as a throwing star..: Metro – Man jailed for attacking wife with sandwich
  • (EXTRA) The last time marriage was used to save the world, it was between lords and ladies.. That didn’t work out so well either..: The Telegraph – Taiwanese earthworms marry to save earth
  • (EXTRA) I’m sure it all started from a mistake in Apple’s new maps app..: Metro – Scottish village Glenelg to be twinned with planet Mars namesake
  • (EXTRA) Literalists are not welcome at some restaurants..: BBC – Brighton all-you-can eat restaurant bans two ‘greedy’ diners
  • (EXTRA) If they’d called it the “Fly-it-all space-hopper”, she might have gone..: Metro – Harry Potter author JK Rowling ‘turned down trip into space’
• Extras:

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