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Home » Current Shows » Spoken Word Shows » The WEIRD Show » TWS327: Incoming Data, Outgoing Individuals

TWS327: Incoming Data, Outgoing Individuals

Posted on 2015-08-28 by weirdshow@gmail.com (the Encaffeinated ONE) Posted in The WEIRD Show

TWS327 logoOn the show this week:

  • The Eye More Than Meats
  • A Little More Than Flesh, A Little Less Than Metal
  • You Think It’s An Illusion
  • Extras

CQ: Which is better: to intensely get to know the area you are in, or to travel widely but never stay in one place very long?

Full list of 19 articles after the jump!

  • The Eye More Than Meats:
    • A “photo album” that might well live on vinyl..: New Scientist – Substituting senses lets blind people take sonic holiday snaps
    • Because mice can’t wear glasses.: New Scientist – Gene therapy cures blindness by replacing vision cells in eyes
    • It still tastes like crap on both ends sometimes..: io9 – You Have Taste Receptors in Your Colon. Here’s Why.
    • No, really: those sensors are pretty useful!: Nature – Neuroscience: Hardwired for taste
    • Let’s just hope that alien worlds have BO.: New Scientist – Sniff out alien life with giant library of weird chemicals
    • Well.. that’s a depressing use of the Drake equation..: New Scientist – Nuclear apocalypse or nanotech invasions could reveal alien life
  • A Little More Than Flesh, A Little Less Than Metal:
    • You never know what knowledge that science will throw up..: LiveScience – Vomit Machine Proves Viruses Can Go Flying
    • But it still can’t laugh.: New Scientist – Think you’re punny? Computer model can tell how good a joke is
    • Most of us are still trying to pet-proof and child-proof our homes — is robot proof possible?: New Scientist – New Urbanist: Home is where the robots live
    • Maybe we might be useful to the future robot overlords after all: as balance sensors!: LiveScience – Futuristic Exoskeleton Keeps Clumsy Robot from Falling Over
    • Hmm.. more evidence that the man-machine interface will the future of our species.: New Scientist – Computer-human hybrids could be best at scanning for danger
  • You Think It’s An Illusion:
    • (EXTRA) Educated legs.: Nature – Octopus genome holds clues to uncanny intelligence
    • (EXTRA) Ethical dilemma? It doesn’t think so..: Guardian – First almost fully-formed human brain grown in lab, researchers claim
    • (EXTRA) Do you dream that you are conscious?: The Conversation – Forget Freud, research on dream imagery may help us understand consciousness
    • (EXTRA) Just imagine what yodelling can do!: New Scientist – Ancient whistle language uses whole brain for long-distance chat
  • Extras:
    • (EXTRA) Must have a desire to tame wild code and break paradigms with raw fingers.: From The Grapevine – Wanted: Tech firm seeks programmers fluent in Klingon
    • (EXTRA) Why don’t you just ask Bowie what it’s like being him?: The UK Daily Mirror – University professor ‘to spend a year as David Bowie’ as part of year-long cultural experiment
    • (EXTRA) It’s nice to think that our space-brothers are trying to prevent us from become another statistical example in an alien Drake equation..: The UK Daily Mirror – ‘Peace-loving aliens tried to save America from nuclear war,’ claims moon mission astronaut Edgar Mitchell
    • (EXTRA) “Warmth” is all relative..: New Scientist – Warmest ever superconductor works at Antarctic temperatures
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