On the show this week:

• Rent For Space
• We’re All In Your Mind
• Self-Doubting Cars
• Insightation Needed
• Noisy Space
• Extras

CQ: Will the current wave of political and cultural awareness about privilege, power and equity make it less likely that we will create robots as subservient entities, or more likely to avoid attempting to give them free will?

Full list of 18 articles after the jump!

• Rent For Space:
  • Apparently, not also submersible..: CNN – The Navy’s last flying aircraft carrier
  • Rather than “turn them into space”.: BBC – How a Nazi rocket could have put a Briton in space
  • I’m all for recycling, but is this going too far?: New Scientist – NASA scours retired space shuttles for spare parts
  • A possible incredible solution, or just so much thin air?: New Scientist – Turning CO2 from air into car parts may help carbon capture pay
• We’re All In Your Mind:
  • I knew you knew I was going to call and then ignore me, so I didn’t call you.: Daily Grail – New Study Offers Support for ‘Telephone Telepathy’
  • If you stare at the universe long enough, you stop time (for a limited definition of “universe” and “time”).: The Night Shirt – Deer in the Headlights: Attention and the Quantum Zeno Effect
  • (EXTRA) I’m sure you called it, years ago.: Alphr – Parapsychology: The rise and fall of paranormal experimentation
  • Will the believers and the skeptics come together, or continue sniping over the fence?: Follow The Magic Thread – Put Your Science Where Your Money Is
• Self-Doubting Cars:
  • (EXTRA) I wonder if they’ll learn the rude genstures and loud honking, too..: New Scientist – Autonomous cars are learning our unpredictable driving habits
  • (EXTRA) Hint: it’s not driving.: BBC – What may be self-driving cars’ biggest problem
  • (EXTRA) Monster trucks of the dinosaur age. (Film in theatres by Christmas?): Mysterious Universe – Ancient Civilization Drove Tanks and Trucks in Turkey
• Insightation Needed:
  • (EXTRA) We have second thoughts, the monkey’s just like, “what?”.: BBC/The Verge – How your attention span compares with a monkey’s
  • (EXTRA) I’m pretty sure booze will also convince you that its “for your health”, too..: New Scientist – Hormones boost placebo effect by making you want to cooperate
  • (EXTRA) If you stare at a person long enough, you stop the universe from making sense..: CNET – Ten minutes of eye contact leads to hallucinations, monster sightings
• Noisy Space:
  • (EXTRA) This idea waxes and wans from time to time..: USA Today – Get ready for ads on the moon
  • (EXTRA) By trying really, really hard..: io9 – How SETI Will Understand Messages Broadcast by an Alien Intelligence
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) It’s twisted.: BBC – Inside the mind of a mazemaker
  • (EXTRA) And by that, we mean he has said we’d not leave, but our information would come out scrambled.: New Scientist – Stephen Hawking says he has a way to escape from a black hole

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