On the show this week:
- First World Problems
- Starring The Wars
- Inverted Expectation
- Extras
CQ: If some lessons can truly only be learned by encountering them in fiction, what stories should we tell to the AI to give them a better chance of turning out good?
Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
- First World Problems:
- Would your dog pay that much to keep away from you and your fancy, breakable stores?: The Consumerist – Would You Pay $.20/Minute To Stow Your Dog While Shopping?
- Virtual parking or a lonely person’s carpool?: The Washington Post – Need parking? Oil change? Gas? There’s an app for that.
- God is a whole different kind of cloud service..: The New Yorker – Uber for God: Inside India’s Religious Tech Industry
- The gift that keeps on giving — so long as you do.: New Scientist – Wearable microbial power plants generate electricity from urine
- Also: great gag to play on annoying relatives staying over for the holidays!: The UK Daily Mail – Earthquake-proof bed ‘swallows’ you when it senses the ground shaking: Mechanism drops you and your mattress into a sealed box full of supplies
- At what point do they introduce “dronesuits” or giant mecha?: The Telegraph – Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other drones
- Suggesting that behind that cold, hard plastic often beats a warm, generous human.: Unknown source: – SWARM Volunteer Search and Rescue Network
- Starring The Wars:
- (EXTRA) When you think about it, are they not wrong? (Technically): ABC13 – 7th grader told his Star Wars shirt isn’t allowed in school
- (EXTRA) Talk about going to the dark side..: UPI – ‘Star Wars’ soundtrack helps doctors detect bowel cancer
- (EXTRA) YES! Let me experience the story as it is told, not your crappy re-telling of it!: LiveScience – Beware ‘Star Wars’ Spoilers: Enjoyment Suffers When Plot Revealed
- Inverted Expectation:
- As much as I want to rub it in vegetarian’s faces, it just makes me sad to have lettuce..: The UK Telegraph – Lettuce ‘three times worse than bacon’ for the environment, scientists claim
- Great! So now *breathing* can make me fat? I don’t stand a chance..: BBC – The air that makes you fat
- Probably North Americans eat so much bacon..: The Washington Post – Joke’s on us. American teeth are as bad as British teeth, study says.
- Cats are jerks, but the real question is: do they mean to be?: ThriveWire – An Expert Explains Why Cats Are Always Knocking Over Your Stuff
- YES: LiveScience – Elf on the Shelf: Cute or Creepy?
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) Or really just the start of *different* work?: The New York Times – The End of Work?
- (EXTRA) Even on the brink of extinction, the pandas have a bit of a moral highground, eh?: Metro – Scientists have discovered that pandas need to be in love before they can make babies
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