On the show this week: Front Page VERY Hard Science Bio Break Extras CQ: Does science have to be serious, or is there a place for humour? Full list of 23 articles after the jump! Front Page: When you want to be very, very alone..: Gothamist – You Can Buy This Abandoned CT Town It’s […]
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On the show this week: Front Page SciHiTech Cryptospookology Random CQ: What can we do to legitimize cryptid research? Full list of 35 articles after the jump! Front Page: The man did research in the stacks as a *hobby*… That’s BADASS.: Above Top Secret – Charles Fort’s Entire Note Collection Becoming Available Soon I’m not […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Thrill or Be Killed Things Done For Love or Money Season’s Creepings Science Diction Extras CQ: Does so-called “empty entertainment” have value? Full list of 43 articles after the jump! Front Page: Sounds like a raw deal to me..: Zeenews India – Ebola hit US journalist deemed Buddhist […]
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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 […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Awl In Your Head Big Hairy Deal Space is both Out and In Extras CQ: If computers and robots could have free will, can we turn it off when we don’t like it? Full list of 44 articles after the jump! Front Page: No, it doesn’t make you […]
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Inside the cold, steel exterior might just beat a cold, mechanical heart — or some twisted combination of “natural” and “unnatural” life.
Bacterium by Fellirium from the album Cellular Structure. The Knock by Errors from the album Have Some Faith In Magic. Bucephalus Bouncing Ball by Bell Orchestre from the album As Seen […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Don’t Mean To Pry, Mate The Digital Analogue Extras CQ: Which will come first: world peace, or interstellar space travel? Is one necessary for the other? Full list of 31 articles after the jump! Front Page: “To all the losers, and especially the winners: better luck next time!”: […]
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It is often felt that Death is the ultimate Destination.
But what if it isn’t? What if there is another journey, one that it endless, one traveled through by dreams?
Omnipresent Boundary by Robert Rich , B. Lustmord from the album Stalker. Endless Falls by Loscil from the album Endless Falls. Transference From […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Mysteries: Solved The World Come Undone Extras CQ: Is original art less valuable when it can be easily reproduced by technology? Special guest co-host (and good friend) Pat joins me to keep the facts straight! Full list of 32 articles after the jump! Front Page: Great, so everyone […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Inside Outer Space Extras CQ: Do you think we should actively seek to create the things we imagine, to create all that we think might exist, including shadow people, faeries and technology indistinguishable from magic? Featuring an interview done by my good friends from another show, ParaPhrasing. They […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Post-interview Extras CQ: If you had the ability to speak with the dead, but only one person and only one question, who would you choose, and why? The second half is an interview with Tania Thomas (medium) and Sarah Smith (musician) of Visions and Voices (http://visionsnvoices.com/) Full list […]
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You’ve just rolled up your new character: a warrior, not yet tried in battle. Your Game Master says, “It’s time to prove yourself. Where do you go?”
“I go to the nearest dungeon, and conquer it!” you boast.
After a moment’s thought, and a brief description of walking, you hear the words every player […]
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A collection of interviews conducted while at Animaritimes, an anime festival held in Fredericton for this year and last. Not really any more commentary than that.
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On the Show This Week: (something entirely different) Interview: Barbara Minton on Discovering Orbs Interview Scott Reaney and Mike Marshall on Chronologies: Book of Giants Interview: Christan Baloga on Hair Bat Sculptures Clichéwatch: ‘if [x] didn’t exist, [y] would have to invent it’ at The UK Telegraph CQ: f you could imagine a project that […]
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On the show this week:
“In The Flesh” from TWS283
“Brain New” from TWS284
CQ: Which is going to happen first: ubiquitous augmented reality, or low-cost, dynamic, hologram projectors?
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On the show this week:
Front Page
Not What You Expect
Evasive Species
Brain New
Extras
CQ: Is it possible to live in harmony with life, and yet still have all our gadgets — or is the inherent externality of technology forever outside the bounds of the all-too-human spirit?
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On the show this week: Front Page; Eyes on Space; In The Flesh; Extras; CQ: Most persistent, ancient holidays seem to be apparently religion acting as mass psychologists to celebrate good times and counter-program against dark times (like Winter) — so should psychologists (under the guise, perhaps, of governments) be put to work creating holidays and celebrations that will be used in space, on Mars, or on future planets — or should such celebrations only be allowed to develop “organically” from a combination of mass meme and clever capitalism?
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On the show this week:
Coverage of Things from episode 279, Dubious Inventions from episode 280, and Bodies are Mental from episode 281.
CQ: Is there too much happening in the present?
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On the show this week: Front Page Knowledge is Immaterial Bodies are Mental Celestial Bodies are Out Of This World Extras CQ: Should basic science be taught without the emphasis on memorizing formulas and instead focus almost entirely on the facts, concepts and relationships — a little more Popular Science and Nova than math textbook? […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Animalice Dubious Invention Upper Space CQ: Will the notion of a “workweek” in which you work at your job for several regular days in a row survive into the future, when days, weeks and other planetary-based time measurement become obsoleted by the travel into space — or is […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Animalice Dubious Invention Upper Space CQ: Will the notion of a “workweek” in which you work at your job for several regular days in a row survive into the future, when days, weeks and other planetary-based time measurement become obsoleted by the travel into space — or is […]
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On the show this week: Front Page People Places Things Extras CQ: Have we lost the traditions, environments and social structures which used to give rise to “common sense”, or are they just in flux? Full list of 30 articles after the jump! Front Page: Are we aware enough to be self-aware about awareness?: Collective […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Animayhem CQ: Which do you think is the likeliest way we’ll discover alien life: through deliberate search (on our part or theirs) or by complete accident? CHSR, the station where this show began and continues to be, needs you help. Please go to our Indiegogo campaign or to […]
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On the show this week: Front Page Emotional Discharge CQ: Given that we are creating the future robotic beings, is it right to create them in the shape of humans, even though they will not ever share in even a vaguely human life? Or should the shape of robots be left to develop on its […]
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On the show this week: Confessional: Why am I eating a 6lb burger? Historical Blindness (from TWS274) A Base Instinct To Build Upon (from TWS275) CHSR, the station where this show began and continues to be, needs you help. Please go to our Indiegogo campaign or to our direct donation page to help us rebuild […]
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