On the show this week:
- The Code For Success
- Legend… ERROR
- Smells Like Success
- Toys On A Different Scale
- Far Sighted
CQ: Are we being selfish and unrealistic when we assume that identity comes only from within?
Full list of 24 articles after the jump!
- The Code For Success:
- When it’s looking over your shoulder?: Science Magazine – How to know if a robot is about to steal your job
- From one grinding job to another?: Mother Nature Network – As coal declines, miners take up coding
- Ever try to order a coffee in C++?: The Christian Science Monitor – States consider allowing kids to learn coding instead of foreign languages
- Genius or typical modern smart schooler?: Tech Crunch – Colorado High Schooler Invents Smart Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint
- Scientists, or test subjects?: Phys.org – Journal to publish paper by video-gamers based on Stanford online RNA game
- Making a living out of making..: Redbull.com – Cubehamster on building a career out of Minecraft
- Code is neutral. People are jerks.: LiveScience – Study: Female Coders Better Than Men, But Perceived As Worse
- Legend… ERROR:
- (EXTRA) Victim or genius?: Telegraph – Spanish council failed to notice civil servant’s six-year absence from work
- (EXTRA) Not all stories are false.. Just a little exaggerated, sometimes..: Gizmodo – Scientists Discover a Boiling River of Amazonian Legend
- (EXTRA) A good story outlasts its teller!: The Guardian – Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers
- (EXTRA) At least it’s evolving..: Mother Nature Network – The evolving media reaction to female astronauts
- (EXTRA) What about beautiful men?: The UK Mirror – Exorcist claims ‘beautiful women’ are more likely to be possessed by evil demons
- Smells Like Success:
- (EXTRA) No, it’s not a yoga position (yet).: BarkPost – How “Awake-dog” MRIs Will Help Dogs Become Scent Detection Masters
- (EXTRA) Makes you wonder what your dandruff could have been..: Ars Technica – With a few skin cells, scientists can make mini, thinking version of your brain
- (EXTRA) Well, someone had to do it..: Yahoo!/AFP – Dutch open their first ‘poop bank’ to treat gut diseases
- (EXTRA) They left out the words “barely” and “not really”..: Discovery.com – Antarctic Fungus Survives in Mars-like Conditions
- (EXTRA) Sure, homeopathy is largely discreditted; but would *you* drink water from a place where only a “little” pollution happened?: News.com.au – Australia’s first ever bar that serves only water has opened and we tried the menu
- Toys On A Different Scale:
- (EXTRA) Apparently, *everything* of the 80s and 90s is worth rebooting..: Time – A Saved by the Bell-Themed Diner Is Coming to Chicago
- (EXTRA) Is it a boat that flies, or a plane that floats?: News.com.au – This could be the new toy for billionaires
- (EXTRA) Something tells me this isn’t the vision of the common person..: News.com.au – Giant drones, sub-aquatic cities and no sick days in the year 2116, report claims
- (EXTRA) Do we have these concerns about normal slides? Wait — we do?: BBC – Giant Shanghai slide sparks fear and satire on Chinese internet
- (EXTRA) More like Missile Command than Asteroids..: Tech Times – Russia To Convert Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles Into Asteroid Destroyers
- Far Sighted:
- (EXTRA) Soon, you can just assume everything is always watching you.: All Tech Considered – Bulky Cameras, Meet The Lens-less FlatCam
- (EXTRA) Now, if we can only invent 30TB of data that we really need that long..: Gizmodo – Optical Data Storage Squeezes 360TB on to a Quartz Disc-Forever
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