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Home » Current Shows » Spoken Word Shows » The WEIRD Show » TWS354: Common Factors Don’t Add Up

TWS354: Common Factors Don’t Add Up

Posted on 2016-04-07 by weirdshow@gmail.com (the Encaffeinated ONE) Posted in The WEIRD Show

TWS354 logoOn the show this week:

  • Virtually Intelligent Thing To Do
  • Universal Discrimination
  • History Teaches Us Nothing
  • Extras

CQ: Who will win the space race: the military, scientists, the civilians, or the business sector? And what will “winning” look like?

Full list of 16 articles after the jump!

  • Virtually Intelligent Thing To Do:
    • Maybe we learned more about human intelligence than we wanted to..: The Guardian – Now anyone can build their own version of Microsoft’s racist, sexist chatbot Tay
    • The real challenge: predicting the weather!: TechRadar – Robots will soon control the weather
    • It’s not as ominous as it sounds…: LiveScience – Physicists Unleash AI to Devise Unthinkable Experiments
    • Wasn’t this about a guy, and his ants..?: LiveScience – Scientists Hijack Bugs, Turn Them into Cyborgs
    • Arguably, it’s not really ready for normal reality anyway…: The Daily Dot – Your brain isn’t ready for virtual reality
  • Universal Discrimination:
    • (EXTRA) This is my sad face. :(: LiveScience – This Negative Facial Expression Is ‘Universal’
    • Do we make better students by making easier schools?: AZFamily/3TV/AP – Is algebra an unnecessary stumbling block in US schools?
    • (EXTRA) What do we settle on, when there is no right (or left) answer?: Motherboard – Right for Men, Left for Women: Why Are Gendered Buttons Still a Thing?
    • (EXTRA) How long and how much should your past haunt you? Especially when it’s nto really that bad?: The Sun – Too hot to teach: Aspiring teacher fired from primary school job because she used to be a model
  • History Teaches Us Nothing:
    • (EXTRA) Just wait until they try Soylent Green..: Fast Company – The Weird Subculture Of Gourmet Soylent
    • (EXTRA) Don’t they rank crimes by importance or something?: WSOCTV – Concord man accused of not returning VHS rental 14 years later
    • (EXTRA) Ok, now I really know why they want the tapes back.. Excuse me while I check my old boxes..: The UK Daily Mirror – The old VHS tapes now worth £1,500 revealed – could you have a fortune in your living room cupboard?
    • (EXTRA) I know that permanence is an illusion, but this is a bit much..: Yahoo! Finance – Welcome to Japan – Where homes are thrown away after one generation
  • Extras:
    • (EXTRA) Um.. Yeah.. : Fox News – President Eisenhower’s great-granddaughter says vegan diets could attract extraterrestrial life
    • (EXTRA) I’m sure they’re going to try to get the nuclear power plant to pay for it..: NPR – Ready, Set, Freeze: Japan Prepares To Switch On Fukushima ‘Ice Wall’
    • (EXTRA) Is it like a photograph, or a substitute for a good memory?: LiveScience – Print Your Hike! 3D Keepsakes Memorialize Mountain Conquests
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