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TWS356: Opening A Door That Doesn’t Exist

On the show this week: Real Virtual; Look To The Skies; Robots Art Changing; Environmental Relapse; Displaced Extras; CQ: What should people be taught: what they *should* know, or what they *need* to know?

Full list of 17 articles after the jump!

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TWS355: Mind Don’t If I Do

On the show this week: Improbable Byproduct; Emotional Journey; Transferring Science Credits; Off This Rockl CQ: When it comes to the days-of-the-week in the future, we will just extend or shorten the list of named days we currently use, or invent entirely new names for them. What new names will we use? Full list of 16 articles after the jump!

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TWS354: Common Factors Don’t Add Up

On the show this week: Virtually Intelligent Thing To Do; Universal Discrimination; History Teaches Us Nothing; Extrasl 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!

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TWS353: Friend Rousing

On the show this week: Non-traditional Animals (a little); Life is Hard; Organic Life; Unidentified Fluential Object; CQ: The challenge this week is: support the station which has supported this show for its entire life — and now supports Mark directly! Join our Patreon campaign at http://patreon.com/chsr979 or donate at http://chsrfm.ca/donate

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TWS352: Rundfaising

On the show this week: Edge Science; Non-traditional Animals; CQ: The challenge this week is: support the station which has supported this show for its entire life — and now supports Mark directly! Join our Patreon campaign at http://patreon.com/chsr979 or donate at http://chsrfm.ca/donate . Full list of 7 articles after the jump!

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TWS351: Live Tomorrow Like It’s Your Next Day

On the show this week: Political Space; Fixing Things Today; Hidden Reality; Not What You Think; In The Wild; Extras; CQ: If you could live life as someone else — from any time period in any place — for one day only, who would it be?

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TWS351: Live Tomorrow Like It’s Your Next Day

On the show this week: Political Space; Fixing Things Today; Hidden Reality; Not What You Think; In The Wild; Extras; CQ: If you could live life as someone else — from any time period in any place — for one day only, who would it be?

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TWS350: The Crap Up With Which We Put

On the show this week: Sensical; Cycle of Life; What the Hack?; A Bad Idea At The Time; Extras; CQ: Should the half-life of an original movie be about 20 years before a remake is not only accepted but expected? Shorter? Longer? Why? Full list of 25 articles after the jump!

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TWS349: The Future Is Made Of All Things

On the show this week: Grown-up Toys; Smells Like Success; Legend… ERROR; CQ: Which is more likely: we’ll grow more concentrated within cities, using the efficiency of large-scale operations to deal with population growth — or will we spread out and create more smaller communities, filling up the vast uninhabited spaces?

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TWS349: The Future Is Made Of All Things

On the show this week: Grown-up Toys; Smells Like Success; Legend… ERROR; CQ: Which is more likely: we’ll grow more concentrated within cities, using the efficiency of large-scale operations to deal with population growth — or will we spread out and create more smaller communities, filling up the vast uninhabited spaces?

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TWS348: Collective Processing Unit

On the show this week: The Code For Success; Legend… ERROR; Smells Like Success; Toys On A Different Scale; Far Sighted; CQ: Are we being selfish and unrealistic when we assume that identity comes only from within? Full list of 24 articles after the jump!

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TWS347: Looking Down on Looking Up

On the show this week: The Sky is Falling; Whatever Floats Your Boast; I Think (not); Extras; CQ: Suppose we found pretty solid evidence that the world was coming to an end in 100 years. Do you think we could leave in time? And how would we try? Full list of 23 articles after the jump!

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TWS346: So I Thought I Thought So

On the show this week: Hard AI; Soft AI; Little Space; These Are The Rules (?); Extras; CQ: Clarke’s Third law states: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” but do you think we’ll ever get technology that could actually be mistaken for magic as we see it portrayed today? Full list of 22 articles after the jump!

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TWS342: Universal Probability Drives

On the show this week: Head In The Sky; Elementary; Health Stealth; Intangible Awards; Animal Life; Inventions For An Alternate Present; CQ: Is it more important to have a broad life, or a deep life — and more important to whom? Full list of 21 articles after the jump!

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TWS340: Stuffed Under The Flying Tree

On the show this week: First World Problems; Starring The Wars; Inverted Expectation; Extras; CQ: If some lessons can truly only be learned by encountering them in fiction, what stories should we tell to the AI to give them a better chance of turning out good?

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