The colonizing Mars vs. Venus debate heats up. AI can play video games, but could it make them? #JourneyQuest: Aboard the Hindenburg X, will Brian and Justin help out the mysterious forces aboard? Get Andrew’s new book, The Naturalist, for free this month if you have Prime! Got something weird? Email [email protected], subject line “Weird Things.” PBS video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ5KV3rzuag Paper on Mario synthesis (pdf) https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~riedl/pubs/ijcai17.pdf Picks: Andrew: Rick and Morty Justin: The Looming Tower Brian: A Gentleman in Moscow