On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Out of This World
- Not As It Seems
- After Death
- Extras
CQ: For space exploration, which should we work on first: completely autonomous robots or better ways to deliver humans?
Full list of 32 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- Let’s just start here, and see if we can maintain the mood of rainbows..: National Geographic – Real-Life ‘Unicorn’ Found; Deer Has Extremely Rare Deformity
- Yup, it’s official: 2014 blew!: Orange – ‘Vape’ named word of the year for 2014
- We all know that they will destroy other baubles, and transform your tree into a wasteland..: Metro – Outrage after Nazi Christmas baubles are put up for sale on online marketplace
- Turns out: it’s a hole… lot more interesting.: Siberian Times – Exclusive new pictures INSIDE Siberian crater
- Turns out: it’s not a hole.. lot more interesting..: Orange – Optical illusion tattoo goes viral online
- Because they were math long before it was trendy..: Mic.com – The Mathematical Reason All Hipsters Look the Same
- All Your Newz Are Belong To Them?: Newstweek – Newstweek
- WHAT’S IN THE BOX?!?: Roadtrippers – A mysterious time capsule was just discovered at the Washington Monument
- Out of This World:
- Look! More rainbows! Find more unicorns!: Digital Journal – Bizarre unidentified rainbow object spotted in Australian sky
- Rosetta: “Yo, Phil. You take a break. I got this.”: New Scientist – Philae lander sleeps but Rosetta mission lives on
- I’m amazed both by the fact that these conspiracy theories exist, and by the fact that they are really so booooring..: The UK Guardian – Philae comet lander alien “cover-up” conspiracy theories emerge
- A conspiracy so good, we can repeat it twice!: The Examiner – UFOs revealed? Rosetta comet mission is an ‘alien’ space structure, NASA coverup
- And I thought *I* was bad for squirrelling away stuff for later!: New Scientist – Hair-raising moon shot to cache your DNA — for cash
- We may not be able to store our stuff on the moon if it turns out to be a badly projected hologram..
: Anomolist/YouTube – Lunar Wave (Hologram?) Confirmed By Two Additional Videos Youtube - And by “city”, they mean “art project”, and by “top secret” they mean “nobody locally who knew, cared, and nobody who might care, really knew”.: Roadtrippers – For 40 years, a top secret city has been quietly built near Area 51
- To find matter? Look to time. : New Scientist – Dark matter could be seen in GPS time glitches
- Not As It Seems:
- (EXTRA) Can we be taught to fundamentally see the world differently? Maybe — for a little while, anyway.: New Scientist – People taught synaesthesia learn to read in colour
- (EXTRA) The first Andorian? A cyborg, anyway, who clearly intended to provoke attention-getting..: BBC – Neil Harbisson: The man who hears colour
- (EXTRA) I know it’s bad, but.. I really want to have that, because I’m *always* hungry and thirsty..: LiveScience – Mysterious Condition Makes Boy Never Feel Hungry or Thirsty
- (EXTRA) I still haven’t gotten a handle on /regular/ biology, so.. Probably not!: New Scientist – Are we ready for quantum biology?
- (EXTRA) … although all it really proves is that desynchronized mimicing robots are creepy, and I could probably have told you that from the beginning..: Wired – This Robot Makes People Experience a Ghostly Presence
- (EXTRA) Nothing like doing bad science by presuming a cause from an effect.. WRONG. Try again!: The UK Telegraph – Ghosts created by scientists in ‘disturbing’ lab experiment
- (EXTRA) And hey, we all know how that worked out in the movie, right? : Metro – Mammoths could live again after ‘Jurassic Park’ breakthrough
- After Death:
- (EXTRA) Or at least, it might be discovered, if someone actually looked..: Ken and Sussex Courier – Mass grave discovered in Tunbridge Wells
- (EXTRA) Really, isn’t this just the science of the time? (They just had lousy peer-review..): The UK Independent – Witchmarks to protect King James I from evil found at Knole
- (EXTRA) Clearly, we aren’t quite over our superstitions..: CBS News – Woman burned alive in Paraguay after witchcraft accusation
- (EXTRA) Of course, some people call them “superstitions”, and others call them “religion”.. Some even call them “therapy”..: Vice – Denmark’s Only Exorcist Is Rather Busy
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) A decent biographical summary of the trickster-skeptic.: NY Times – The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
- (EXTRA) Because nostalgia has a price tag.: Orange – World’s worst video game fetches thousands
- (EXTRA) The squirrel is actually a pretty good cinematographer, but the script is a bit up and down..: Orange – Thieving squirrel helps make wildlife video
- (EXTRA) Can they add a part where there’s a fire-breathing dragon? Because then the story gets interesting again..: The UK Independent – Jesus ‘married Mary Magdalene and had children’, according to ancient manuscript
- (EXTRA) I was simultaneously disappointed that it was peddle- or gravity-poweredm, and thinking about making a suit with a backpack on it..: Orange – Daredevil reaches 207mph on a bicycle
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