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Home » Current Shows » Spoken Word Shows » The WEIRD Show » TWS338: The Speed of Aught

TWS338: The Speed of Aught

Posted on 2015-12-11 by weirdshow@gmail.com (the Encaffeinated ONE) Posted in The WEIRD Show

TWS338 logoOn the show this week:

  • $pace
  • Out Think It Through
  • Behave Like Animals
  • Play time
  • Extras

CQ: Do we need semantic units like inches and feet or rational units like meters — or both?

Full list of 20 articles after the jump!

  • $pace:
    • I’m also planning it — but I’m not likely to actually get it done, either.: Yahoo! – Russia Is Planning To Build A Permanent Manned Base On The Moon
    • A tragedy of the galactic commons..: Nova Next – Who Makes the Rules for Outer Space?
    • Is it more like cancer or pregnancy in this respect?: Forbes – More Than Half Of Kepler’s Giant Exoplanets Are False Positives
    • A good exploration of the typically depressing concern about (lack of) alien contact. We just want to be not alone! Is that so much to ask?: ZidBits – Where Are All The Aliens? What Is Fermi’s Paradox?
  • Out Think It Through:
    • I saved this article, and will continue to save it into the future.: LiveScience – Is Digital Hoarding a Mental Disorder (And Do You Have It)?
    • What part of reality is symbolic?: LiveScience – (O) French Flags on Facebook: Does Social Media Support Really Matter?
    • If all that’s left is culture to differentiate between men and women, is anything left at all? (Besides usually obvious biology..): New Scientist – A welcome blow to the myth of distinct male and female brains
    • (EXTRA) Reality is what you make it.: SF Gate – Blind woman with multiple personalities can see when she’s a teenage boy
    • (EXTRA) There may be no limit to stupidity, but there are endless categories..: LiveScience – How Stupid Can You Be? Science Counts the Ways
    • (EXTRA) They could be listening to you RIGHT NOW.: Epoch Times – Are Plants Conscious, Intelligent?
  • Behave Like Animals:
    • (EXTRA) And we thought elections bring out some bad behaviour..: Globe and Mail – Toronto Zoo briefly closes baboon exhibit after matriarch’s death sparks violent power struggle
    • (EXTRA) I wonder where we’ll find the Elves and the Orcs..: Scientific America/LiveScience – Hobbits Were a Separate Species, Ancient Chompers Show
    • (EXTRA) Imagine having a third hand. Left and Right and Center?: redOrbit – Bizarre three-armed ocean creature shows ancient lifeforms were more complicated than we thought
    • (EXTRA) No, they aren’t recent..: New Scientist – Hundreds of giant dinosaur footprints found in Scottish lagoon
  • Play time:
    • (EXTRA) Isn’t this when we need holiday cheer the most? (Though not prayers..): Yahoo!/AFP – (O) Christmas festivities ‘a charade’ with world at war: pope
    • (EXTRA) The big scandal is… they work?: BBC – The truth about Sweden’s short working hours
  • Extras:
    • (EXTRA) Why did we ever really think it wasn’t useful?: The Herald Sun – Melbourne researchers prove appendix crucial to digestive health
    • (EXTRA) Quantum entanglement will definitely put an end to cell phones. I wonder if it’s also the reason we haven’t overheard aliens, too?: LiveScience – ‘Spooky Action’ Heats Up: Atoms Entangled at Room Temperature
    • (EXTRA) Or at least, spelled out.: Vox – (O) Ben Carson’s bizarre theory about the pyramids, explained
    • (EXTRA) From the Doctor Who audio drama I just heard, it’s an Atlantean weapon storage — or a bluff.: Daily Grail – (O) Pyramid Scan Identifies an ‘Impressive Anomaly’ Behind the Blocks of the Great Pyramid
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