On the show this week:
- Front Page
- By Any Other Name
- Sec2
- Extras
CQ: What is the best or worst lesson about living life you’ve ever gotten from fiction (books, TV or movies)?
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Full list of 32 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- At first, I was hoping for “the world’s strangest coffee”, but it’s not produced from a rodent’s rectum..: Orange – The world’s strongest coffee
- Please tell me that there’s a real bed in there, tho..: Metro – Cake hotel opens up for sweet dreams in Soho for one night only
- What if there is some news that you just can’t face?: Metro – The new face of bad news? The avatar that can deliver your messages
- Aside from using keyboards and mice, that is..: ydr/Slate – Researchers explore connecting the brain to machines
- It’s no different than fearing a cake made from more than one type of flour..: New Scientist – Don’t fear babies made with genes from three parents
- Everyone is encouraged to make babies, whatever way we need. Although make a few less, please?: New Scientist – Make three-parent babies, UK government told
- Right response: “The evidence does not appear to suppor the claims, so it is inconclusive.” Wrong response: “We should stop looking because you haven’t found overwhelming evidence.”: The UK Daily Mail – Is this alien life? Controversial scientists publish second paper claiming they have found ‘extra-terrestrial fossils’ in meteor fragment
- (EXTRA) Sometimes, I need nothing more than the title to be intrigued..: The UK Daily Mail – ‘I have sex with aliens who sneak into my room at night’: Psychic appears on live TV claiming to have ‘out-of-this-world orgasms with octopus men and cat people’
- Some ideas are worth sharing, even if (especially if!) they are controversial..: Daily Grail – TED Deletes Talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock
- By Any Other Name:
- I think they already did the million-dollar-movie version of this..: The Examiner – Huge Florida mosquitoes: 20x larger than average insect
- Forget mechanical drones! Maybe they’ll mount them to gallinippers..: BBC – Drones may be used to target ‘illegal hunting’
- A long winter makes reality a little harder to distinguish from snow..: Orange – Snow sculpture car gets parking ticket
- Innocent action, or potential vampire threat? (Probably innocent..): Huffington Post – Teacher Lets Students Taste Her Blood At Norway Kindergarten
- Oh, no! Not “raunchy” photos! Soon, they’ll be jumping in mudpuddles!: Orange – Teacher let pupils see raunchy photos
- Soon, that may be the only thing libraries are used for, so we might as well accept it..: Orange – Librarian sacked over Harlem Shake video
- (EXTRA) Oh… if ONLY… *sigh*: New Scientist – 3D display could bring ‘Princess Leia’ hologram to life
- (EXTRA) Soon, we’ll be watching things that watch us watch them..: New Scientist – How vast advertising displays will grab your attention
- (EXTRA) The ultimate grow-op..: Orange – Farmscrapers take eco-living to new heights
- (EXTRA) May the Force be With You, I know pronounce you man and wife.: BBC – Jedi could perform marriages, says Free Church of Scotland
- (EXTRA) Where does it cross the line from parody to mean mockery?: Orange – Pastafarians launch legal challenge
- (EXTRA) Why do people want to always say “Spiderman” when they mean “Daredevil”?: Metro – Real life Spider-Man called Mustang Wanted fearlessly performs stunts high above the ground
- (EXTRA) The life of a superhero is tough.. Especially without the “super”.: Metro – Salford ‘superhero’ hangs up cape after being punched in face in Manchester
- (EXTRA) Gotta hand it to her..: BBC – Doctor ‘used silicone fingers’ to sign in for colleagues
- (EXTRA) Whatever gets you the distance, I guess..: Orange – Sex toys help singers hit the high notes
- (EXTRA) Food shaped like people was never a problem with ninja cookies, but baby heads may be a bit far..: Orange – Marketing stunt goes pear-shaped
- Sec2:
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) A good grounding.: Doubtful News – Media Guide to Skepticism
- (EXTRA) Yeah.. but it wasn’t a unicycle..: Orange – Man cycles up 2,754 stairs
- (EXTRA) Someone maaay be reading a bit too much into this..: New Scientist – Planck shows almost perfect cosmos — plus axis of evil
- (EXTRA) I want to wait until all medical scopes are extremely tiny..: New Scientist – World’s thinnest endoscope is width of a human hair
- (EXTRA) Bummer.. All I found was a dime..: STV – Grave of medieval knight and monastery site found under car park
- (EXTRA) I wish they hadn’t died out.. I’d love to see a 4-winged bird!: NBC News – Four-winged birds? First fossils identified
- (EXTRA) We’re kinda disgusting, really..: New Scientist – The body: Your curious behaviours and what they reveal
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