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TWS393: Things In The Way of Food

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On the show this week:

  • Someone Made This Real
  • Unusual Science
  • Missing Things Found
  • Unreal Intelligence

    • CQ: When we bring dinosaurs back from extinction, will we use them on the moon, on Mars or on Earth first?

    Full list of 18 articles after the jump!

    • Someone Made This Real:
      • ‘They were so busy wondering if they could, they never stopped to think whether they should.’: The UK Independent – Cheese tea is a thing – and it’s coming to the UK
      • And yet, we still hear people fart in the public bathroom..: The Daily Dot – You can now buy a $130 ramen fork that cancels out slurping noises
      • There’s a certain segment that is probably really interested.: The UK Daily Mail – Love the scent of fried chicken? KFC releases BATH BOMBS that will leave you smelling like the 11 secret herbs and spices
      • I’ve heard of bar deodorant, but that’s ridiculous!: KDVR/FOX – Pit Liquor: Colorado inventors make whiskey-based deodorant
      • It’s not what you think, but it could have been done a hundred years ago..: The UK Telegraph – Farmers urged to bury their underpants to improve quality of their beef
      • Most of the world already seems ludicrous to me right now..: News.com.au – 12 things that’ll seem ludicrous in our lifetime
      • Unusual Science:
        • In what ways do we cross science over with art?: LiveScience – This Video of ‘Dancing Braids’ Will Change How You Think About Mathematics
        • Shouldn’t we all?: Fox43 – U.S. Army in Maryland using urine to generate power
        • The first stage of the replicator?: New Scientist – Kitchen counter bio-lab lets you make edible gloop from cells
        • Oh yeah? See you in a hundred years, pal!: Inverse Science – Immortality Is Impossible, Say Scientists Studying the Mathematics of Aging
        • Missing Things Found:
          • They found it by looking everywhere else first. Whatever remains, must be nothing.: The Daily Grail – Scientists Find Suspected Hidden Chamber Within the Great Pyramid
          • So now you’re telling me that there’s nothing there — but isn’t that the same as the other guy?: Phys.org – Egypt archaeologist criticises pyramid void ‘discovery’
          • Let’s remember that games are still art, and art is for representation..: Ancient Origins – New Assassin’s Creed Has the Most Realistic Reconstruction of Ancient Egypt Ever Produced
          • (EXTRA) You might say this work is transformative..: Quanta Magazine – The Atomic Theory of Origami
          • Unreal Intelligence:
            • (EXTRA) Why not? Corporations are people, so why not machines?: LiveScience – Lifelike ‘Sophia’ Robot Granted Citizenship to Saudi Arabia
            • (EXTRA) Let’s hope the stories weren’t aspirational..: New Scientist – ‘I Wake Up in a Pool of Blood’: These Horror Stories Were Written by an AI
            • (EXTRA) Inevitability or pipe dream?: Scientific American – Falling Walls: The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence
            • (EXTRA) That’s what the debate over AI sometimes feels like..: The Verge – I spent seven months living inside a conspiracy thriller and it’s not over yet
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