On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Outer Personal Space
- A Long Suspicious Look At Life
- Extras
CQ: What pointless ritual do you perform that means a lot to you and you alone?
Full list of 21 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- Guaranteed to make the bravest among us squick a bit..: Metro – ‘Exploding spiders’ are being found all across Britain
- Who knew that simply taking off your clothes could be so powerful? I say we turn this into a power source..: Mysterious Universe – Malaysian Earthquake Being Blamed on Naked Tourists
- (EXTRA) Having attended this convention before, I can say I found it hard to find common ground..: Yahoo!/AP – Dowsers tap into far more than water at annual convention
- I find it amazing no one noticed this pyramid-shaped hill before..: Epoch Times – New Discovery of Prehistoric Underground Tunnels at Bosnian Pyramids
- Outer Personal Space:
- No doubt humming the song “STILL ALIVE” by Jonathon Coulton: ESA – Rosetta’s lander Philae wakes up from hibernation
- There’s a lot of assumption that we really have any accurate picture of the universe yet..: LiveScience – Aliens Will Be Bear-Size, According to Math
- Bear-sized machines!: The UK Telegraph – Astronomer Royal: If we find aliens, they will be machines
- I’m waiting for the 15-year-old who discovers a wormhole..: Metro – Schoolboy aged 15 on work experience finds a new planet in our galaxy
- Let’s let the porn industry fund a moonbase and Mars trip, too!: Metro – Pornhub plans to film first sex tape in space in 2016
- We all want to find love in this cold, cold universe..: High Strangeness – UFO Meat Market
- A Long Suspicious Look At Life:
- (EXTRA) We may soon find ourselves fighting for space on this planet against a simian-lupus alliance. PLANET OF THE APES (AND WOLVES)!: New Scientist – Monkeys’ cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication
- (EXTRA) Are we really worried about the species going extinct, or is this a vanity project?: New Scientist – All you need to know about conceiving babies from thawed ovaries
- (EXTRA) I wonder if it signed it’s donor card..: New Scientist – Dinosaur blood cells extracted from 75-million-year-old fossil
- (EXTRA) AAGH! KEEP IT BACK!: LiveScience – Dino-Chicken Gets One Step Closer
- (EXTRA) CLARIFICATION: *think* they do. : Discover Magazine – Phantom Eye Patients See and Feel with Missing Eyeballs
- (EXTRA) Not exactly the “sixth sense” everyone was waiting for..: New Scientist – Sixth personality trait measures your Machiavellian potential
- (EXTRA) I’m pretty sure it’s more than the sum of its parts..: Motherboard/Vice – Humanity’s Long Search for the Soul in the Brain
- (EXTRA) It will probably resemble modern human-like intelligence, which just Googles everything anyway.: The UK Guardian – Google a step closer to developing machines with human-like intelligence
- (EXTRA) Yeah, but can it help you cheat at cards? (Babylon 5 fans out there?): New Scientist – Soft robot tentacle can lasso an ant without harming it
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) Go figure! Students actually *listened* to their teacher!: Metro – Teacher suspended after telling pupils to ‘go home and take selfies with their parents’ sex toys’
- (EXTRA) I really hope this is for cloning purposes..: LiveScience – Locks on the Block: Mozart & Beethoven’s Hair on Sale
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