TWS401: K is for Kilometer, not Savings

On the show this week:

• A Different View


• Tech We Didn’t Know You Needed


• Sec3

CQ: Have we fundamentally changed as a civilization in the last two hundred years — and will we change again in another 200? Or are all the changes really superficial and circumstantial?

Full list of 10 articles after the jump!

• A Different View:
  
  
  
  • For the last time: phones are not demons, they are perfectly normal technology. DOOM.: Newsweek – The Vatican Is Training More Exorcists, With Reports of Demonic Possession Soaring
  
  
  • Will the sasquatch get it’s day in court?: WSDU – Woman suing California agencies for not recognizing existence of Bigfoot
  
  
  • Don’t tell the animals; it will hurt their feelings…: Vox – The surprisingly weak scientific case for emotional support animals
  
  
  • Are rockets ships more metaphor than they should be?: NBC/THINK – The patriarchal race to colonize Mars is just another example of male entitlement
  
  
  
  


• Tech We Didn’t Know You Needed:
  
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Actually, one could see this as a lesson in persistence against obstacles more than violence.: LiveScience – The Day Humans Taught Robots to Fight Back
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Any sufficiently developed biology is indistinguishable from magic. And probably smells.: LiveScience – These Bacteria Eat Toxic Metal, ‘Poop’ Gold Nuggets
  
  
  • (EXTRA) It’s the beginning of our underground future.: LiveScience – Whoosh! Virgin Unveils Hyperloop that Will Travel 760 Mph
  
  
  • (EXTRA) But… it’s right there. In the mountain. And it needs to be wound.: LiveScience – This Giant Clock Will Tick for 10,000 Years, But You’ll Never Find It
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Bonkers? Or the only way we’ll know the passage of time in the year 9 thousand, 2 hundred and five, after the ‘planetary mobility’ accident of 9 thousand 2 hundred and one..: Gizmodo – Jeff Bezos Begins Installation of His Bonkers 10,000 Year Clock
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Watch out for the roaming charges!: Metro – Vodafone and Nokia to install 4G on the moon in 2019