On the show this week: Space In Your Eyes; Space Between Your Eyes; Extra Space; Nothing; CQ: Is it possible for a country to completely reinvent itself, shedding off all of its historical baggage (and positive traditions) — and can we ask the same of a person? Full list of 13 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: $pace; Out Think It Through; Behave Like Animals; Play time; Extras; CQ: Do we need semantic units like inches and feet or rational units like meters — or both? Full list of 20 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Space Transit Pass * Bio Mass Illucidation * Things That May Not Be There * CQ: Has the Internet fundamentally changed the way that humans communicate, or merely allowed us to communicate more fully in the ways we already have?
Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: How Do You Mind? * Transitions In Space * UF Those * Extras * CQ: Is there a place for “citizen science”, or does science need to stay within brick institutions to be legit?
Full list of 16 articles after the jump!
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Hal-Con 2015 interviews (part two), with: Gavin Buhr, Emily Perkins, Lenore Zann and Jeff Russell.
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The first of two interview episodes from Hal-Con 2015. I spoke with Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Kat Kruger and Amber Benson.
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On the show this week: Mind Bullets; Bee/Movies; CQ: Have we really invented any new scares for mankind, or are they just window dressing over things that frightening the more primitive animal ancestors?
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On the show this week: Tricks of Light; The Oil and Grass Industry; Extras; CQ: How do we inspire culture to make recycling of EVERYTHING the highest priority, so that we don’t kill ourselves with our garbage?
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In the show this week: Perceptive Problems; Knowledge Lost & Found; To Nobel or To Ig Nobel; Extras; CQ: If we mine asteroids and other planets for their resources and bring them back to Earth, will we *overstock* the Earth with things?
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On the show this week:
Displaced From Dat Place
Inventive
Slight Unseen
Extras
CQ: Do we have to be faced with downsizing (say, for space travel..) before we start to think about the entirely lifetime of our stuff?
Full list of articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Space Grace Rate; Speaking of Science; Extras; CQ: Do we have to be faced with downsizing (say, for space travel..) before we start to think about the entirely lifetime of our stuff? Full list of articles after the jump!
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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!
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On the show this week:
The Eye More Than Meats
A Little More Than Flesh, A Little Less Than Metal
You Think It’s An Illusion
Extras
CQ: Which is better: to intensely get to know the area you are in, or to travel widely but never stay in one place very long?
Full list of 19 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Animals Are Aliens; Stray Thoughts; Oack A Lunch For A VERY Long Trip; Extras; CQ: Should we teach philosophy as much as we teach mathematics? Full list of 18 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: They Like To Move It (Move It); Nothing To Be Here, Move Along; Inventions For A New Future; Extras; CQ: What’s written in your missing manual of life? Name one thing which you learned as an adult that you realize you should have known as a child. Then name a second one. And a third.
Full list of 16 articles after the jump!
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Have you ever had the feeling that you were one foot in this world, one foot in another? Or that you might close your eyes one day and wakeup in an another life? What if you did, and it was unacceptable? Continue reading →
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On the show this week: Front Page; Mind Your Please and Cues; Why-Tech; CQ: Will the present-day cultures we identify ourselves with have any meaning once we have transitioned into an inter-planetary species — or will they mean even more? Full list of 15 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week: Front Page Don’t Mind The World Universal Universe CQ: Do we have to design and build a utopia in order to sustainably move into space — or even move into the future? Full list of 21 articles after the jump! Front Page: I was 99% there — and then there […]
On the show this week: Front Page; Big Issues; Small Issues; Extra Issues; CQ: Will an artificially-intelligent product of humanity ever be granted the rights of a human, and will that happen before or after extraterrestrial aliens are granted similar rights? Full list of 19 articles after the jump!
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Are you present in the present? Or are you a ghost, immaterial in the moment, wandering only between the remembered past and projected future? What if you aren’t here now, but soon will be? Continue reading →
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I love theatre! So much that I can talk about it off-the-cuff for an hour.
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On the show this week: Front Page; 2 Eyes, 1 Cat; Climate Chains; CQ: Are categorical boundaries ever consistently useful, or is our current dissolution of solid definitions a recognition of the truly changeable quantum state of the universe?
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On the show this week: Front Page; Outer Personal Space; A Long Suspicious Look At Life; Extras; CQ: What pointless ritual do you perform that means a lot to you and you alone?
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They say that travelling broadens the mind.. But what if it starts to create cracks zenitch in your mind because it stretchesil too mush, to quickallio? What kif words begin to lose proper meaning, as you add too many to your maenad? Continue reading →
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On the show this week: Prosthetic Fallacy; Interview: Sharon Lee (medium); CQ: On board the arkships in a thousand years, will we still hold to superstitions or have moved “beyond” them?
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