On the show this week:
- Well Isn’t That Spacial
- Science Friction-less
- Extras
CQ: Which is better: seeking to uplift animals to near- or above-human intelligence, or creating entirely new, artificial intelligent beings?
Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
- Well Isn’t That Spacial:
- Seeing more, or more seeing?: OpenMinds – Canadian UFO report takes the media by storm
- Is this… a trick question?: Popular Science – (O) What Happens After You Land A Rocket On A Drone Ship?
- Now I know what to save my vacation money for..: New Scientist – (O) Inflatable space hotel to be tested by space station crew
- A little space one-upmanship..: New Scientist – (O) Billionaire pledges $100m to send spaceships to Alpha Centauri
- Space: the Legal Frontier…: The Hollywood Reporter – ‘Star Trek’ Lawsuit: The Debate Over Klingon Language Heats Up
- Science Friction-less:
- We put a lot of faith in the system of science — but what happens if we test that faith?: The Week – Big Science is broken
- (EXTRA) Has the EmDrive found it’s physics evangelist?: MIT Review – The Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster
- (EXTRA) Radical physics, or simply neglected engineering?: Indiegogo – Superconducting Levitation Thruster
- (EXTRA) If you can’t create new movement, maybe you can just get rid of the force that’s holding you back.: BBC – (O) Project Greenglow and the battle with gravity
- (EXTRA) How long before this leads to suntan tattoos becoming common?: LiveScience – Scientists Find New Way to Tan or Lighten Skin
- (EXTRA) Is body-hacking the latest “overnight success” to have existed for a long time?: Fusion – Bodyhackers are all around you, they’re called women
- (EXTRA) It’s more “do as I say, not as I do”.: New Scientist – Nimble-fingered robot hands could help clean up nuclear waste
- Extras:
- (EXTRA) The answer is: no. But a mystery led an outsider to discover local history.: Atlas Obscura – Did a Coded Message Lead an American to a Lost Civilization in China?
- (EXTRA) Only a little truth, but a lot of mystery.: Epoch Times – The Truth About Father Crespi’s Controversial Missing Artifacts
- (EXTRA) Isn’t China big enough to take all other cultures into itself?: The Austria Local – (O) Chinese continue to appropriate Austrian culture
- (EXTRA) Yes, they meant to do that for themselves..: Discovery News – Insects Are Conscious and Egocentric
- (EXTRA) It’s doubtful you can “reverse” death, but maybe you can treat the symptoms..: The UK Daily Mail – Could we soon REVERSE death? ‘Reanimation’ firm is looking for ways to bring brain-dead people back to life
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