On the show this week:
- They Like To Move It (Move It)
- Nothing To Be Here, Move Along
- Inventions For A New Future
- Extras
CQ: What’s written in your missing manual of life? Name one thing which you learned as an adult that you realize you should have known as a child. Then name a second one. And a third.
Full list of 16 articles after the jump!
- They Like To Move It (Move It):
- I think this is the “clothes dryer will fix it” theory of life..: LiveScience – Shake, Rattle and Build: Colliding Bricks Self-Assemble Into Objects
- Now if only they gave them the ability to design *themselves*, we’d have a perfect dreadful future combo!: LiveScience – 3D-Printed Spy Drones Could Be Built at Sea
- Now if only we gave ourselves the ability to design ourselves, then.. Oh, wait..: LiveScience – Powerful DNA ‘Editing’ Has Arrived, Are We Ready for It?
- And by “impossible” you can either read “I don’t know how this works” or “I think it’s wrong data”.: ScienceAlert – Independent expert confirms that the “impossible” EM Drive actually works
- The morning commute: to the moon!: The UK Telegraph – ‘Impossible’ rocket drive works and could get to Moon in four hours
- Nothing To Be Here, Move Along:
- They are talking galactic scale. It was literally too big to see before.: The UK Daily Mail – The biggest structure in the universe revealed: Astronomers discover mysterious ring FIVE BILLION light years across
- Sometimes, our perceptions can run away on us. But I’ll wait until more pictures are taken.: CNET – Sometimes a crab-shaped rock on Mars is just a crab-shaped rock
- Some people would rather face a reality that isn’t real. Is that so wrong?: New Scientist – ButtonMasher: The gamers who only want to explore virtual worlds
- Maybe the button-mashers are really just ahead of the rest of us?: Space.com – Is Our Universe a Fake?
- Inventions For A New Future:
- (EXTRA) Now if only they could do this with the Earth’s magnetic currants..: LiveScience – Lexus’ New Hoverboard Is Cool, But Will It Fly?
- (EXTRA) This might make vegetarians no longer susceptable to teasing by baconophiles, and make a few veggies edible.: LiveScience – Finally, Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived
- (EXTRA) Forget standing on the shoulders of giants — we need to stand on the piles of our garbage to be brilliant in the future!: CTV News/AFP – Swiss scientists develop high-end fabric from animal waste
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) Just make sure to eject the USB once the data transfer is done.: Metro – Humans having sex with robots will be the norm ‘within 50 years’
- (EXTRA) The trick is: don’t really care about the outcome if it’s a failure.: LiveScience – How to Set High Goals Without Burning Out, According to Science
- (EXTRA) The last time the term “laser” was thrown around so casually, I was watching Austin Powers.: New Scientist – Living lasers made by injecting oil droplets into human cells
- (EXTRA) It’s like a modern return of the wandering student/hobo life: doing odd jobs to survive, then moving on down the road.: New Scientist – The apps that let you earn money while you holiday
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