In 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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