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Home » Current Shows » Spoken Word Shows » The WEIRD Show » TWS331: Cheering Until The Invisible Is Gone

TWS331: Cheering Until The Invisible Is Gone

Posted on 2015-10-28 by weirdshow@gmail.com (the Encaffeinated ONE) Posted in The WEIRD Show

TWS331 logoIn the show this week:

  • Perceptive Problems
  • Knowledge Lost & Found
  • To Nobel or To Ig Nobel
  • Extras

CQ: If we mine asteroids and other planets for their resources and bring them back to Earth, will we *overstock* the Earth with things?

Full list of 12 articles after the jump!

  • Perceptive Problems:
    • The answer depends on who watches the watching pets.: The Epoch Times – Scientists Investigate If Pets Telepathically Sense When Owners Are Returning Home (+Video)
    • We are watching the watchers watch clothing now..: Guardian – Stare and you’ll ruffle my feathers – the clothing that reacts to your gaze
    • It’s always been listening, it’s just been ignoring you all this time..: New Scientist – Speech recognition AI identifies you by voice wherever you are
    • Can science tell us what we may not even know ourselves? Should it?: New Scientist – Gay or straight? Saliva test can predict male sexual orientation
  • Knowledge Lost & Found:
    • (EXTRA) They wanted to ask the witness to the crime, but no one could understand them.: Wired.co.uk – Languages are dying, but is the internet to blame?
    • (EXTRA) A new element for the Drake Equation?: Live Science – Eavesdropping on Aliens: Why Edward Snowden Got E.T. Wrong
    • (EXTRA) A first step to storing the knowledge of the mind?: New Scientist – Digital version of piece of rat brain fires like the real thing
    • (EXTRA) Will your Facebook posts be backed up?: New Scientist – How to save our digital knowledge for future generations to read
  • To Nobel or To Ig Nobel:
    • The annual ceremony to celebrate science that perhaps shouldn’t be.: The Annals of Improbable Research – The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
  • Extras:
    • (EXTRA) The discovery of saltwater stains never sounded so exciting..: The Planetary Society – NASA’s Mars Announcement: Present-day transient flows of briny water on steep slopes
    • (EXTRA) How much can we learn from art?: Live Science – Japanese Paper Art Inspires Sun-Tracking Solar Cell
    • (EXTRA) When you want something gone, sometimes you have to give it your all..: International Business Times – Last Resort Rehab: Australians turn to Thailand’s vomit temple to cure meth addiction
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