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 music.
Promo: Nutty Bites — My good friend Nutty celebrates what’s awesome, and gets geeks to debate over geeky things. Give it a listen!
Full list of 23 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- How to make a mountain (of cash) out of a mole- er, anthill.: IScience Times – How To Make Anthill Art With Molten Aluminum
- A fun festival of frightful fruit freeforall!: Orange – Melon mayhem in Australia
- But if we don’t practice on our own planet, how will we ever get good enough to practice on others?: New Scientist – Geoengineering would be ‘irrational and irresponsible’
- It also may be one of the most important, and should be globally active..: New Scientist – See one of the world’s dirtiest jobs: e-waste disposal
- All Space:
- The universe began with a.. infinite timeloop or no beginning or .. my head hurts..: Phys.org – No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning
- The debate returns: to boldy send messages into space, or meekly hide and hope they don’t notice us?: io9 – Frank Drake: “It Would Be Silly” To Message Alien Life Today
- After all, when has communication ever solved anything? … Wait..: Boing Boing – Frank Drake thinks it’s silly to send messages to ET
- And other other side of the debate, those who believe that we probably want to start talking with our neighbours long before they get here..: The Guardian – Alien search won’t doom planet Earth, say scientists who want to contact ET
- Did we sidestep the whole issue and just make it an economic one, rather than philosophic one? Is that how science works now?: New Scientist – Contacting aliens – war of the worlds or war over cash?
- Maybe they were already here, trying to tell us something..: Huffington Post – UK Scientists: Aliens May Have Sent Space Seeds To Create Life On Earth
- When those memories have to survival millenia, choose DNA!: New Scientist – Glassed-in DNA makes the ultimate time capsule
- Smoke signals from Mars?: ESA – Mystery Mars plume baffles scientists
- In the end, the best thing our generation might be able to do is dream and inspire the next generation..: Orange – Man has Star Wars-themed funeral
- No Mind:
- (EXTRA) The ultimate sign of human laziness, or the first steps in machine independence?: Polygon – This RPG plays itself, so you don’t have to bother
- (EXTRA) I’ve heard of the rhythm method, but I don’t think this is what they meant..: New Scientist – Musical software helps mothers push babies out faster
- (EXTRA) We are trained all our lives to take instruction — so is it surprising we do it well?: New Scientist – Don’t read this aloud in your head. Drat, failed
- (EXTRA) Magicians are the skeptics of the occult world — much closer to scientists than you might think.: Vancouver Sun – Vancouver, Montreal researchers use magic to explore consciousness
- (EXTRA) We are colonized beings, and occasionally the people will speak for us.: LiveScience – Valentine’s Science: How Mouth Germs Shape Attraction
- (EXTRA) Or, how we can’t just let a good thing happen, and instead insist on it not happening.: New Scientist – The four main roadblocks holding up self-driving cars
- (EXTRA) The latest and greatest headless robotic companion — but are they going to appreciate all the kicking?: Orange – Meet Spot the sure-footed robot dog
- (EXTRA) Humans are to crows like computers are to lawnmowers..: Scientific American – Crows Understand Analogies
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) From slacker to ghost mogul.: The NY Times – In Thailand, the Ghost Business Thrives
- (EXTRA) Clearly a fake. Everyone knows that spirits can only enter through the Windows.: Orange – Haunted Apple Macbook up for sale on eBay
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