On the show this week:
- It’s a Pretty Big Place
- Heart Official Intelligence
- Leftovers
CQ: What sort of government would a colony arcship travelling for 20 years to a distant planet have?
Full list of 19 articles after the jump!
- It’s a Pretty Big Place:
- Finally, all the alien stuff will be released! … Why are you looking at me that way?: Unknown source: – NASA just made all the scientific research it funds available for free
- Well.. that’s *convenient*..: New Scientist – Proxima b: Closest Earth-like planet discovered right next door
- So far, the reality is starting to live up to at least some fiction..: New Scientist – If Earth-like planet Proxima b has life, what might it be like?
- Is space too big for aliens to meet up?: New Scientist – Spoiler alert: Why strange signals are never really from aliens
- Heart Official Intelligence:
- (EXTRA) How to spark a family discussion (about overreaching parental power, perhaps).: News.com.au – Dolmio pepper grinder ‘hacker’ will disable your Wi-Fi for family dinners
- (EXTRA) Do we share our grief more as well as grief others?: LiveScience – Twitter Is Changing the Way People Mourn
- How much of our minds are now a collective Internet hive?: Science Daily – Cognitive offloading: How the Internet is increasingly taking over human memory
- (EXTRA) Turns out, a lot of legal problems may be routinely wrong..: Unknown source: – Chatbot lawyer that overturned 170,000 parking tickets now helps fight homelessness
- (EXTRA) Don’t worry citizen; everything will be just fine YOU HAVE 7 SECONDS TO COMPLY.: New Scientist – Autonomous AI guards to stalk the internet fighting hackers
- (EXTRA) YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO COMPLY… OR I WILL WARN YOU AGAIN.: New Scientist – The threat of robot guards is not enough to stop people stealing
- (EXTRA) It’s the lips..: Gizmodo – Apparently People Trusted This Robot
- (EXTRA) It sounds so official when it’s said by a traditional auto manufacturer..: Live Science – Ford Aims to Have Self-Driving Cars Take to Roads by 2021
- (EXTRA) … it may be the scoop of the century, if done by these guys first.: LiveScience – Uber Rolls Out First Driverless Cars
- Leftovers:
- (EXTRA) And they said it was nothing more than a whisper in the breeze..: New Scientist – First US offshore wind farm will power an entire island
- (EXTRA) Hey, when life gives you swarms, make ’em into flour!: Stuff.co.nz – Cricket tortillas on the menu at Mexico restaurant in Hamilton video
- (EXTRA) How rich is Bigfoot?: CNBC – The mystery of how a company set up to search for Bigfoot hit a $10 billion value
- (EXTRA) Superhero or supervillian?: New Scientist – Synthetic supermicrobe will be resistant to all known viruses
- (EXTRA) And by ‘published’, they mean ‘no, you cannot afford it’.: Live Science – Hoax or Secret Code? Copies of Unreadable Manuscript to Be Published
- (EXTRA) Everyone always forgets the first mover-inventors..: Metro – The world’s first pyramid has been discovered… and it’s in Kazakhstan
