On the show this week:

• Front Page
• SCIENCE! Faction
• Seasons Freakings
• Extras

CQ: We once erected permanent markers to stand for those who have died, but in this digital age, do you think that digital memorials will stand the test of time — or are we going to be a generation completely lost, forgotten in the future?

Full list of 30 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • It’s when the drugs/booze/delusions wear off and you find yourself in the middle of the ocean in a giant hamster ball, that’s when you start questioning your life choices..: NBC5 Chicago – (O) Coast Guard Rescues Man Running Across Ocean in Bubble
  • It’s a COWCALF-ony! (Get it? Cacaphony? Ugh..): Geek – (O) It turns out that cowbells make cows miserable
  • Hard to figure out if I’m madder at bureaucratic incompetence or spooks being spooky.: The Journal Online/Open Minds TV – (O) NSA says it has lost its non-redacted UFO files
  • Read the title twice, then realize the universe is stranger than you thought..: Wired – (O) This Bizarre Organism Builds Itself a New Genome Every Time It Has Sex
  • Well, now that this is settled, we can move on..: The UK Express – (O) The incredible picture that ‘PROVES’ there is life on other planets
  • We got a lot of work to do in this world..: International Business Times – (O) Colombian Woman Who Put Potato in Vagina for Contraception Hospitalised after it Grew Roots
• SCIENCE! Faction:
  • It only sounds *slightly* impossible..: Scientific American – (O) New Particle Is Both Matter and Antimatter
  • Could it be? This idea is no longer a cold, dead-end?: Extreme Tech – Cold fusion reactor verified by third-party researchers, seems to have 1 million times the energy density of gasoline
  • Must we move beyond materialist science? Can we?: Explore – (O) Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science
  • Just who are these non-materialist scientists?: The Huffington Post – (O) Toward a Post-Materialistic Science
  • I’ve heard it said before that science only disproves things, not proves them. Is this valid?: Epoch Times – (O) Where’s the Proof in Science? There Is None
  • It’s like when dove’s cry, only.. sad.: NPR – (O) When Scientists Give Up
  • (EXTRA) Is this science admitting that it needs to change?: Huffington Post – (O) Will ET Be Here Soon? NASA Brings Scientists, Theologians Together To Prepare
  • (EXTRA) Is this science admitting that anything that isn’t science isn’t important?: De Void/Herald-Tribune – (O) A rhetorical concession, now go away
  • (EXTRA) Is this science admitting that it makes mistakes?: NY Times/The Upshot – (O) To Get More Out of Science, Show the Rejected Research
  • (EXTRA) Experts have now discovered that they have terrible sex lives, and really don’t know what every sexually experienced woman probably already knows well..: New Scientist – (O) ‘Final’ word on female orgasm is an anticlimax
  • (EXTRA) And by “baffle”, they probably meant to say “lies outside of established theories currently competing to describe reality according to”. Or something equally succint..: The Week – (O) Mysterious feature on Saturn’s moon baffles NASA scientists
  • (EXTRA) I’m still not used to the idea that the moon has water, and now it came on a breeze..: New Scientist – (O) Moon water blew in on solar wind
  • (EXTRA) Actually, this is a lot closer than most stories, although it’s not a hologram, not three-dimensional, and doesn’t have taste or smell..: New Scientist – (O) Real Holodeck turns your living room into a game
  • (EXTRA) NOW you’re thinking like a technologist! (You thought I was going to say scientist?): New Scientist – (O) Should we upgrade photosynthesis and grow supercrops?
• Seasons Freakings:
  • (EXTRA) How much history have we buried? And was it, perhaps, for good reasons?: The UK Daily Mail – (O) Have they found ‘Dracula’s dungeon’ in Turkey? Secret cells beneath Tokat Castle may have been where Vlad the Impaler was held hostage
  • (EXTRA) No one should be forced to serve beer..: The Daily Star UK – (O) SPOOKED: Terrified barmaid served beer to black-eyed ghosts
  • (EXTRA) Is it all a joke? Can you even tell anymore?: The Guardian UK/MediaMonkey – (O) Daily Star: getting into the Sunday Sport spirit?
  • (EXTRA) Did they ever stop to think that it might just be a goat reverting back into a man?: The UK Daily Mirror – (O) See mutant goat born with ‘human’ face as farmers are accused of bestiality
  • (EXTRA) Is this the last step to making an urban legend real?: News.com.au – (O) Slender Man attack victim revealed as Payton Leutner, parents reveal details of accused killer’s ‘fantasy’
  • (EXTRA) And then who followed them? A Pastafarian with a cleansing absurdity? A Dudeist with a rug that would “bring the room together”?: Patheos – (O) Archbishop performed exorcism after Black Mass in Oklahoma
  • (EXTRA) Are they prepared to make that kind of sacrifice? If so, there may be a guy..: Texas Cryptid Hunter – (O) Could a Cryptid Discovery Save the Earth’s Wildlife?
  • (EXTRA) Fortunately, all life will not die out, according to Zeno’s Paradox.: New Scientist – (O) World’s wildlife population halved in just 40 years
  • (EXTRA) What kind of licence do you need for that?: Boing Boing – (O) Men determined to kill Bigfoot
  • (EXTRA) It’s often the small details which can prove the most important.: Bigfoot Evidence – (O) Oh, Wow! You Can Totally See Patty’s Toes In This Enhancement
• Extras:

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