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TWS308: A Reality To Imagine

Posted on 2015-03-14 by weirdshow@gmail.com (the Encaffeinated ONE) Posted in The WEIRD Show

TWS308 logoOn the show this week:

  • 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!

  • Front Page:
    • I still say molemen..: National Post – Toronto tunnel mystery solved: Two ‘blue-collar guys’ dug hole for ‘man cave,’ police say
    • A logical commemoration.: Orange – Canadians asked to stop ‘Spocking’ bank notes
    • Gee whiz! It’s a shiny future, eh, boyo?: New Scientist – Cheap wonder metals will make a faster, cleaner world
    • If only kale tasted like cow.. : New Scientist – Here’s the beef — think green and cut meat
    • Asking the tiniest of things to do what we people-sized things can’t accomplish..: New Scientist – Hungry insects may halve forest carbon sink capacity
    • Some saw an attack.. I just kept thinking: “WAAAAHOOOO!”: BBC – Weasel photographed riding on a woodpecker’s back
    • And you thought the Internet was sticky for info!: New Scientist – Ancient customer-feedback technology lasts millennia
    • Chickencabra!: Mysterious Universe – Mysterious Beast Kills Chickens and Drinks Blood in Malawi
  • Simulated Truths:
    • (EXTRA) I often whether anyone I know on Facebook is a real person or a robot..: New Scientist – Facebook invents an intelligence test for machines
    • (EXTRA) Is it time to think small about big space?: New Scientist – Tiny CubeSats could hitch a ride with ESA mission
    • (EXTRA) Clearly, it’s time to reconsider the robotic overthrow of our universe..: ExtremeTech – Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine
    • (EXTRA) No word on actual bionic powers.: Orange – Bid to launch Hillary Clinton action figure
    • (EXTRA) Not so much plan your apocalypse, but to plan the spot for your survival bunker..: New Scientist – Zombie simulator lets you plan your own apocalypse
    • (EXTRA) For every thing, there is either a standard, or someone who wants to create one.: BBC – ‘Fairy control’ to halt tiny doors in Somerset woods
  • More Than Meets The Eyes:
    • And now, you can’t help yourself!: New Scientist – After handshakes, we sniff people’s scent on our hand
    • Um.. no?: Live Science – Line of Cocoa: Is Chocolate Snorting Safe?
    • I saw blue and tan.. Am I missing something?: Live Science – White & Gold or Blue & Black? Science of the Mystery Dress
    • Clearly, this explains that dress thing..: Live Science – Image Captures Light’s Spooky Dual Nature for 1st Time
    • (EXTRA) The studying of the thing that studies, like a mirror that reflects itself.: Epoch Times – A Place for Consciousness Studies in Academia? Professor Helps Pave the Way
    • Good thing we’re going in for a closer look!: CNET – 8 possible explanations for those bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres
    • (EXTRA) It’s more patient than a person, and never blinks, but can it appreciate the beauty of the universe?: New Scientist – Giant robot eyes scan stars for dust
  • Extras:
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