On the show this week:
- Places Lost And Found
- True Tales of Medical Fiction
- Mechanical Animal
- Some Call It The Dance
- Triumph of Belief
- Food For Naught
- There Are No Small Inventions
CQ: Has humanity already transformed sufficiently to make current standard age ranges covering “child”, “adult” and “old adult” meaningless — and are they too ingrained to change? Why?
Full list of 27 articles after the jump!
- Places Lost And Found:
- Is this the beginning of an Indiana Jones career?: Yahoo!/The Daily Buzz – Quebec teen discovers ancient Mayan ruins by studying the stars
- Or perhaps the beginning of the end of one boy’s dream?: Snopes – Larkeological Find
- It’s pulling a Jedi mind trick: “If you strike me down, I shall become stronger than you can possibly imagine”. : The Conversation – Has the library outlived its usefulness in the age of Internet? You’d be surprised
- Where “roughing it” includes a spa and being rich..: The UK Guardian – ‘Burning Man for the 1%’: the desert party for the tech elite, with Eric Schmidt in a top hat
- Corporate America: The Town Where Nobody Lives.: The UK Daily Express – Billion pound ghost town in New Mexico developing schools, cars and homes of the future
- Because how *else* are you going to get that dream vacation? (Nightmare vacation?): The Kernel – The man who Kickstarted his way to 30 days in a haunted clown motel
- True Tales of Medical Fiction:
- (EXTRA) Is sympathy tied to one’s own suffering?: ScienceDaily – (O) When you take acetaminophen, you don’t feel others’ pain as much
- (EXTRA) That is not dead which can be brought back.: Discovery News – Dead Could Be Brought ‘Back To Life’ in Medical Trial
- (EXTRA) Doesn’t make the cool sounds, however..: LiveScience – Bionic Implant Improves Vision for Some Eye Patients
- (EXTRA) A casual start of augmented reality?: LiveScience – Get ‘Bionic Hearing’ with New Smart Earbuds
- (EXTRA) Who gets to decide where science can be best applied?: New Scientist – (O) Let people most affected by gene editing write CRISPR rules
- (EXTRA) Clearly, it balances the humours..: AZ Family – Leech therapy making a comeback
- Mechanical Animal:
- (EXTRA) But no one really wants to know what a cat has to say, and it doesn’t want to talk to you anyway!: The UK Mirror – Translate your cat’s meows into human speech with ‘world’s first talking cat collar’
- (EXTRA) They tried to get dogs to talk, first. Didn’t work.: Wikipedia – BowLingual
- (EXTRA) As long as it’s chew-proof..: treehugger – Can a computer train your dog?
- (EXTRA) If you use the game, you may be demented..: City AM – (O) Playing this smartphone game could help scientists spot the warning signs of dementia
- (EXTRA) Are our brains changing in response to extensive interactions with machines? Is that a bad thing?: The Conversation – (O) Are our smartphones afflicting us all with symptoms of ADHD?
- Some Call It The Dance:
- (EXTRA) Do they lack rhthym? Or are they just shy, like me?: Business Insider/The Conversation – Here’s why some people can’t dance
- (EXTRA) First, they came for our industrial jobs! Now, they will take our dance partners! … I may not mind.: LiveScience – Forget Taking Over the World. All this AI Wants to Do Is Dance
- (EXTRA) LARP 2.0: The UK Daily Mail – (O) Fight knight! Meet the men who dress up in medieval armor and use swords and axes to bash each other’s heads in for sport
- Triumph of Belief:
- (EXTRA) Would you rather they celebrate the murder of a priest? Or the love letters of an imprisoned noble?: The UK Express – Pagans in prison allowed to celebrate festival of lactating sheep
- (EXTRA) Because we haven’t found it yet..: Heritage Daily – Why are we still searching for the Loch Ness monster?
- Food For Naught:
- (EXTRA) Your first reaction probably displays your bias from the fiction of humanity..: UPI – Australian brewery creates beer using yeast from belly button lint
- (EXTRA) A turnip, by any other shape, is a bit more sweet?: The New Yorker – All the Food That’s Fit to Print
- There Are No Small Inventions:
- (EXTRA) I can hear the biblical interpretations like thunder rolling on the horizon..: Fox News Health – Scientists witness ‘flash of light’ during conception, say discovery could aid IVF
- (EXTRA) You might be able to create incomprehensible software on a futuristic computer..: New Scientist – Try your hand at programming IBM’s online quantum computer
- (EXTRA) The possibilities are endless. And tiny.: LiveScience – World’s Tiniest Engines Could Power Microscopic Robots
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS
