On the show this week:
- Front Page
- 2 Eyes, 1 Cat
- Climate Chains
CQ: Are categorical boundaries ever consistently useful, or is our current dissolution of solid definitions a recognition of the truly changeable quantum state of the universe?
Promo from Flash Pulp! flashpulp.com — an amazing journey through several pulp storylines done through up to three short stories a week! I’m still catching up, but all the stories — and the in-between the stories chats! — are all available for you to listen to and enjoy.
Full list of 19 articles after the jump!
- Front Page:
- Can we just send a robot lander there already?: Bad Astronomy – What the Heck Are Those Spots on Ceres?
- It’s like peering through the lens of a robot’s inner thoughts..: The UK Guardian – Yes, androids do dream of electric sheep
- Time is fleeting; tea-time doubly so.: Universe Today – About Time: Is the June 30th Leap Second the Last?
- The language has now been shake-shake-shaken up!: Metro – Twerk (along with 499 other words) has now been added to the Oxford Dictionary
- Do we always have to accept that all things in life are inconstant and fleeting?: Metro – ‘Twerking’ in the dictionary — why we should celebrate language evolution
- 2 Eyes, 1 Cat:
- Well, at least they are good for us.. Despite the loss of ALL productivity..: LiveScience – Internet Cat Videos Keep You Purring, Study Finds
- This allows us to see even MORE cat videos!: New Scientist – Our eye sockets give us a wider field of view than other apes
- It’s filled with cats. (No.): The Epoch Times – We Each Have a Mysterious Bioenergy Field Around Us: Study
- It’s not exactly the sexy version.: The Epoch Times – Observing Psychokinesis in a Lab-Researchers Taking Psi Mainstream?
- (EXTRA) The most enduring mystery contemplated by life is life itself..: New Scientist – Why ‘RNA world’ theory on origin of life may be wrong after all
- An example of life but not as we know it..: New Scientist – Weird fossil worm with legs and spikes finally reveals its head
- (EXTRA) Is there a risk of global population shortage?: Metro – (O) Young men urged to freeze their sperm or risk children having genetic disorders
- (EXTRA) A classic mistake of locking the door but leaving the window open?: BBC – Sex-themed e-books given curfew in Germany
- (EXTRA) Are gender-neutral names any less of a guess at a child’s future life than gendered ones?: News.com.au – (O) Latest trend in baby names: Gender-neutral
- Climate Chains:
- (EXTRA) Can’t they just ask how the Arizonans live through summer?: Mother Jones – This Drought May Be Having Some Very Weird Side Effects
- (EXTRA) Finally! A solution to the “I want my planet and eat it too” conundrum!: The UK Daily Mail – Scientists are creating ‘low carbon cows’ to try and reduce greenhouse gases generated by herds
- (EXTRA) Are we doomed to stare at wonder at the stars but destroy the earth around us?: New Scientist – Construction resumes on Hawaii’s Thirty Meter Telescope
- (EXTRA) How do we convince ourselves to act smartly on the “big stuff” like climate change?: New Scientist – (O) Illegal not to act: Could courts save world from climate change?
- (EXTRA) Jumping on the bandwagon or resounding a global wake-up call?: The UK Guardian – (O) Pope’s climate change encyclical tells rich nations: pay your debt to the poor
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