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Reality Bytes – for the week of March 18th 2012: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Asbestos Factory by Jakim

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Julian Assange to run for Senate

France bans strain of Monsanto GM maize

Russia plans manned moon shot by 2030

Death penalty idea for corruption draws criticism: China

Tibetans Protest in Northwest China

Facebook Attack Hits NATO

Oh no. First it was SOPA/PIPA. Then ACTA….

Ban on father seeing daughter alone is lifted

CANADA FINALLY FREES MAN ARRESTED FOR HAVING MANGA ON HIS COMPUTER

 Scientists unveil their infrared sky

 Man looking for missing cat stumbles on buried ‘UFO’

 LEGO robots help scientists build artificial bones

 Thai billionaire who founded Red Bull dies at 89

 Bear bites Florida woman in rear end as she walks her dog

 Kashmir scientists clone rare cashmere goat

Did life on Earth actually come from the Red Planet?

 ‘Invisible wires’ boost see-through solar window

 Scientists turn cyborg snail into living battery

 Bike lets you change gears with your mind — if you concentrate

Reality Bytes – for the week of March 11th 2012: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – karobushka (russian trad) by jeremie

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Bizarre hybrid deep-sea creatures discovered

Mind-altering LSD could treat alcoholism, study claims

Study: Coffee drinking not linked to chronic illness

Iraqi teens stoned to death for wearing ’emo’ clothes

Is the world of ‘Minecraft’ boys only?

Solar cells that go anywhere win invention prize

“Protestors” call games industry a “temple of sin,” demand repentance

Daily drink may reduce stroke chance

Obama admin wants warrantless access to cell phone location data

DARPA’s “Cheetah” robot sets new speed record of 18mph on treadmill

Thousands of spiders blanket Australian farm after escaping flood

Fears of deadly asteroid hitting Earth next year are likely overrated

She sings, she dances, she’s … not real

Feeling racist? Blood pressure pill Propranolol may open hearts and minds

Obama admin: War is peace, IP negotiations are transparent

Artificially intelligent vs. artificially human: creating better NPCs

Emboldened by Megaupload shutdown, Hollywood targets Hotfile

HR 347 … ‘Trespass Bill’ Will Make Your Right to Protest Illegal

Obama Signs HR 347 “Trespass Bill”

HR 347 & S 1794 aka The ‘Trespass Bill’ of 2011 Criminalizes Protests…

New Anti-Protest Bill Flies Through Congress – Both Parties Stage Nearly Unanimous Votes to Outlaw Protests Against Government

Reality Bytes – for the week of March 4th 2012: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Ramatchaka by Deepness

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Japanese cat lovers snarl at new law 

Prisoners At Liberty County Jail In Texas Had Access To Cable Pornography For Months, Probe Reveals

Black March Boycott: How Anonymous is Fighting ACTA & SOPA by Boycotting Media

‘Password1’ is the No. 1 Password Employed by Business Users

Screening Pap Smears Tied to Higher Cure Rate

Dark matter blob confounds experts

Dept. of Energy signs agreements to develop small nuclear generators

Giant Jurassic Fleas Packed a Mean Mouth

Illinois judge: law barring recording police is unconstitutional

Raw milk a raw deal, CDC says

Paternity questions plague 1 in 10, DNA test firm says

Stem cells in ovaries can produce healthy eggs

Not tonight, dear: Sex problems linked to headaches

Find the military’s hidden QR codes and rake in $40,000

‘The Art of Video Games’ opens at Smithsonian March 16

State Department ‘game’: Tag criminals using social media

Japan invents speech-jamming gun that silences people mid-sentence

Iceman mummy may hold earliest evidence of Lyme disease

Telecoms groups fight back against free messaging

Reality Bytes – for the week of February 26th 2012: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Ghost Army by Sweet Mother Logic

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Police arrest and stripsearch innocent man after child doodles a gun

Talk about blue in the face… Extraordinary story of Appalachia’s ‘Blue Family’ whose bodies were discoloured after generations of inbreeding

Swiss man replaces car’s broken heater with a wood burning stove

Turkey: doctors perform quadruple limb transplant

As worries rise, research continues to argue that avian flu isn’t that deadly

Appeals court: Fifth Amendment protections can apply to encrypted hard drives

Proposed Oklahoma “violent” game tax defeated in committee

Google Goggle glasses ARE WATCHING YOU

‘Occupy Toilets’ seeks double potty parity for Chinese women

Newly discovered legless amphibians are horrifying

Spaceballs! Cosmic buckyball ‘factory’ discovered

Queen of Sheba’s lost gold mine discovered, archaeologist claims

‘Marsquake’ may have shaken up Red Planet

What’s living on your smartphone?

Robotic bees pop up in swarms from flat sheets

Forcing an electron to orbit like a planet

Reality Bytes – for the week of February 19th 2012: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Requiem for a fish by The Freak Fandango Orchestra

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Reality Bytes – for the week of February 12th 2012: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Japanese Tradition by The Poetize Code

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Singer Whitney Houston dead at 48

Anonymous invites CIA, others to its weekend party

’5-Hour Energy’ drink inventor revealed to be a Buddhist monk billionaire

China probes “bouncing” boiled eggs

‘Gulf of America’ legislation proposed as a pointed joke

Mother sues city for $900 trillion–yes, trillion–for placing children in foster care

Bacon Shake latest innovation in the fried food renaissance

Frozen sauerkraut causes German motorway chaos

Google testing Google-manufactured personal communication device

Cell: Emergence: An AI experiment with the heart of an old-school arcade shooter

Russians finally hit Antarctic Lake Vostok after 20-year drilling project

Caught on camera: Icelandic monster or fishing net?

Pennsylvania’s purple squirrel a rainbow-colored riddle

Entire genome of extinct human sequenced

Daredevil to plunge from outer space, break sound barrier

Scientists study suspended animation for wounded soldiers

Sun points a loaded gun at us

‘Rapunzel Number’ helps scientists quantify ponytails

Jury strikes down patent troll’s claim to own the Web

Journalist recovers video of his arrest after police deleted it

Can porn be copyrighted? One file-sharing defendant says no

Skin cancer drug reverses Alzheimer’s in mice

Reality Bytes – for the week of February 5th 2012: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – State of Life by Fature

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Reality Bytes – for the week of January 29th 2012: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Star Field by cybarasta

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The world’s first computer password? It was useless, too

Kinect tech built into laptop prototypes

Pirate Party of Catalonia wants to sue FBI, in Spain, over Megaupload seizure

Opponents protest signing of ACTA without adequate debate

Bringing galaxy-scale magnetic fields down to size in the lab

Polish lawmakers don Guy Fawkes masks to protest ACTA

Update Facebook by thrusting your hips to, er … ‘Like’ things

‘You will download your sneakers within 20 years. Yarr’

Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth

Bare-breasted protesters brave Davos chill

Greek priest caught digging for treasure

Shetland pony on the loose in California suburb

Healthy, six-legged lamb born in Georgia

Imprisoned Megaupload founder loses ‘Call of Duty’ crown

Chicken Nuggets: How Bad Are They?

New York firm proposes using plant DNA to thwart SAT testing fraud

Not lovin’ it: McDonald’s Twitter campaign hijacked by haters

World’s first magnetic soap could clean sticky messes

Hundreds of meteorites uncovered in Antarctica

New Mexico is stretching, scientists say

Jumping spiders’ unique vision revealed

Too many tests? Routine checks getting second look

Doctors save baby born with no blood

Millions in SOPA lobbying bucks gone to waste

Herman Cain ‘enthusiastically’ endorses Newt Gingrich for president

Chicken Nuggets: How Bad Are They?

Imprisoned Megaupload founder loses ‘Call of Duty’ crown

Reality Bytes – for the week of January 22nd 2012: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Electric blue vibrator with red by Micka FRENCH

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Batman Attacks Karate Instructor

Massive solar flare headed toward Earth, may spark celestial light show

Bank error gives man £6.3bn bank balance

Maniac Tentacle Mindbenders: How ScummVM’s unpaid coders kept adventure gaming alive

Man with two hearts survives double heart attack

‘Oozing’ alien planet is a super-Earth wonder

NYC police developing “electronic frisking” device

Faint sunlight enough to drive weather, clouds on Saturn’s moon Titan

South African law would jail meteorologists for weather forecasts

Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN, helps resist stress

Mutant microbes unlock seaweed’s stash of energy

American search team fails to find women’s G-spot

Scientists find hundreds of lost fossils from Darwin collection

Indonesian charged with blasphemy for atheist post

Why eating fat doesn’t make you fat

NASA close to approving first sci-fi flick shot in space

Cataract in a gravitational lens may be a tiny galaxy

Stargazing viewer in planet coup

Researchers evolve a multicellular yeast in the lab in 2 months

INFLUENCE GAME: Online companies win piracy fight

Why the feds smashed Megaupload

Anonymous takes down DoJ, UMG websites—attack on Whitehouse.gov underway

Reality Bytes – for the week of January 14th 2012: Listen Now!

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Opening Song – Black Runners by Spleen

Closing Song – Surronded by opera smoke by …and nobody cared

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Child labor violations at Apple suppliers down in 2011

India: obscene pics of gods require massive human censorship of Google, Facebook

 Drugstore wars … on Twitter!

 In the future, can you remain anonymous?

 ‘Doomsday Clock’ Ticks One Minute Toward Destruction

 Is Spider-Man Body Armor Finally Within Reach?

 Take Two Robots and Call Me in the Morning

 Las Vegas man with 100-pound scrotum seeks money for surgery

 Penis tattoo gives guy permanent erection

 New film details how a dad, then son, launched into space

 Russian villager mistakenly buys Kalashnikov arsenal

 Astronomers see more planets than stars in galaxy

 Bacon, Sausage Linked to Pancreatic Cancer

 Las Vegas priest jailed for gambling with church funds

 Study: Smoking Marijuana Not Linked with Lung Damage

 Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA

 A dozen atoms enough to store a bit—provided they’re kept near absolute zero

 WiGig promises low-power 2Gbps wireless device communication by 2013

 Copyright Wars escalate: Britain to extradite student to US over link site

 Pirate Bay dropping torrents after magnetic attraction