ORly Radio Show 40 - No Religion Required

ORly Radio Show 40 for Friday January 9th, 2015 - No Religion Required

Hosts: Andy & the Usual Suspects: David and Don!!! Special Guest - No Religion Required
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Project Achieved Commercial Operation and State and federal regulators are overseeing a two-year study of the facility's effects on birds.
URLs:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=121544&p=irol-newsArticleNRG&ID=1899656
URLs:http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-largest-solar-plant-started-creating-electr-1521998493 URLs:http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304703804579379230641329484

Item:Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Thinks His New Stirling Engine Will Get You Off The Grid For Under $10K
URLs:http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2014/07/02/dean-kamen-thinks-his-new-stirling-engine-could-power-the-world/

Item: Drones : Too many missions and too few pilots are threatening the ‘readiness and combat capability’ of America’s unmanned Air Force, according to an internal memo.
URLs:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/04/exclusive-u-s-drone-fleet-at-breaking-point-air-force-says.html

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: Broke Guy Offers Nikes in Lieu of Bail, Chill Judge Says "OK"

URLs: http://gawker.com/broke-guy-offers-nikes-in-lieu-of-bail-chill-judge-say-1677405562
Item: Bohner wins third Speaker of the House position - Makes dissenters pay.
URLs: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/boehner-allies-out-for-revenge-114007.html

Item: Masked gunmen wielding Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher killed at least 12 people and injured 10 more at the Paris offices of satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday before escaping.
URLs:
http://gawker.com/gunmen-kill-12-in-shooting-at-paris-satirical-newspaper-1677943812
URLs:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/07/charlie-hebdo-satire-intimidation-analysis
URLS: 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/09/charlie-hebdo-suspects-killed_n_6439396.html

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: At 11:50 a.m. ET on Jan. 2, the dollar index was trading at 90.94. To make a long story short for those of us who don’t have a degree in economics, this is the highest level the dollar has traded at since March 2006. THANKS OBAMA!!
URLs: http://reverbpress.com/politics/u-s-dollar-reaches-highest-value-in-9-years/

Item: 4 Things That Were Supposed To Happen By 2015 Because Obama Was Reelected
URLs: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/01/01/3607416/4-things-2015-obama-reelected/

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: New Bill Would Make Wearing Hoodies A Crime
URLs:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/03/3607687/oklahoma-hoodie-ban/
Item: The oldest time capsule discovered in the country (1795) was opened Tuesday in Boston
URLs: http://abcnews.go.com/US/oldest-us-time-capsule-opened-today/story?id=28025479
URLs: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/after-220-years-secrets-of-paul-revere-and-sam-adams-time-capsule-revealed/

Oh, Florida...

ITEM: Phoebe Jonchuck Killed by her father John Jonchuck Jr.
He pulled her from his car and tossed her off a bridge 62’ to Tampa Bay.. .
URLS: 
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/27793264/deputies-john-jonchuck-had-history-of-domestic-issuesd
URLS:http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/ex-man-accused-throwing-child-bridge-says-hes-jeky/njj5w/

Item: A Florida dad taught parents in the state last week that it's fine to spank your kids, as long as you call the cops to oversee it
URLs: http://gawker.com/dad-calls-cops-to-watch-him-spank-12-year-old-daughter-1677493594

Item: Disney cruise officials say 4-month-old was too young, forced family off ship
URLs: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-family-forced-off-disney-cruise-ship-story.html

Item: Guy Trashes "Spiritual" Girlfriend's Car After Granny Dildo Sex Prophecy
URLs: http://gawker.com/guy-trashes-spiritual-girlfriends-car-after-granny-di-1677076809

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: https://www.readingrainbow.com/
David’s: Misfit Flash Activity Tracker - http://www.amazon.com/Misfit-Flash-Fitness-Sleep-Monitor/dp/B00NIU9YG0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420857068&sr=8-1&keywords=misfit+flash
Don’s: http://www.businessinsider.com/wind-turbines-that-look-like-trees-2015-1

Bobby and Ms. Ashley from No Religion Required: http://noreligionrequired.com/  @noreligionreq  @ms_ashleynrr  facebook.com/noreligionreq  www.patreon.com/noreligionrequired  REASON CON http://reasonnc.com/

ORly Radio Show 37 - #Hack the planet!

ORly Radio Show 37 for Friday December 19th, 2014 - #Hack the planet!

Hosts: Andy & the Usual Suspects: Mike and David!!!
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Errata From Last Week: The 525-page report chock full of bureaucratic language, was the redacted version of a 6,200+ page report. So if rectal feeding is what they are willing to divulge… imagine what the didn’t want you to see.
Pope Francis did not actually say anything nice about dogs going to heaven, though we suspect he still believes it.  The story was made up and mismashed together from different blogger stories covering his speech.

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: Sony Hacks

URLs: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2014/12/19/sony-the-interview-hackers-gop/20635449/

URLs: http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/12/20/us-sony-cybersecurity-usa-idINKBN0JX1MH20141220
Item: ICANN HACKED: Intruders poke around global DNS innards.
URLs: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/17/icann_hacked_admin_access_to_zone_files/

Item: Google News Spain to close in response to story links 'tax'

URLs: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/google-news-spain-to-close-in-response-to-tax-on-story-links
Item: Curiosity Rover Finds Methane on Mars: What It Could Mean for Life
Another study published in Science today also details another exciting Curiosity find on Mars. Using a sample of clay, scientists have measured the hydrogen in the Martian atmosphere about 3 billion to 3.7 billion years ago. The new finding could help pin down when the Red Planet lost its liquid surface water.

URLs: http://m.space.com/28019-mars-methane-disovery-curiosity-rover.html
Item: Les Baugh made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two of the Laboratory’s Modular Prosthetic Limbs.
URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2jU0Q&feature=youtu.be

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: CLINICALLY BRAIN-DEAD PREGNANT WOMAN BEING KEPT ALIVE TO SAVE THE BABY -- AGAINST PARENTS' WISHES

URLs: http://abc7chicago.com/442621/

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: CUBA

URLs: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/obama-announces-dramatic-shift-uscuba-policy
Item: Russia Economy in freefall - Western sanctions, coupled with falling global oil prices, have hurt Russia's economy.
URLs: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30547775

Oh, Florida...

Item: Florida man wanders around setting cars and dumpsters on FIRE!

URLs: http://www.wesh.com/news/deputies-man-set-fire-to-cars-dumpsters-marion-county/30315192

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Bill Nye Explains evolution using Emoji http://gizmodo.com/bill-nye-uses-emoji-to-perfectly-explain-evolution-1670690085

Mike’s: Phantom of the Opera and the NEW http://www.drphillipscenter.org/  : http://www.thephantomoftheopera.com/ustour/people/creative/cameron-mackintosh/

 

ORly Radio Show 36 - Breaking down the #AngryAtheist

ORly Radio Show 36 for Friday December 12th, Breaking down the #AngryAtheist.

Hosts: Andy & the Usual Suspects: Ann, and Don!!!
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Hangout Event: https://plus.google.com/events/clqphibvn23912vt38oihd8fggs

Errata From Last Week: #WeCantBreath was of course a purposeful misspelling. It was the trending hashtag, and shortly the proper spelled #WeCantBreathe, was also trending. You should be able to find more than you want to find under both spellings.
Followup - I was unable to get to a story I wanted to cover last week. Please head over to http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-american-justice-system-is-not-broken-1666445407 to read more about what I was on about.

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Vaginas
URLs: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-vaginas
Item: Rosetta discovers water on comet 67p like nothing on Earth
URLs: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/10/water-comet-67p-earth-rosetta

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: Governments turn up the heat on atheists "the overwhelming majority of countries fail to respect the rights of atheists and freethinkers" as set out in U.N. treaties, adding that 13 states, all of them Muslim, had made apostasy or blasphemy against religion a capital offense.”
URLs: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/10/us-religion-atheists-idUSKBN0JO00L20141210

Item: “Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence committee finally released its long-awaited report on the CIA's use of torture on detainees. The report deserves to be shared far and wide—but it's a 525-page report chock full of bureaucratic language. Boring! To make it more sharable, we've compiled a set of memes that totally illustrates some of the report's most important and eye-catching takeaways.”
URLs: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/cia-torture-report-memes/?fb=dd

Item: Dogs in Heaven? Pope Francis Leaves Pearly Gates Open “Trying to console a distraught little boy whose dog had died, Francis told him in a recent public appearance on St. Peter’s Square, “Paradise is open to all of God’s creatures.”
URLs: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/world/europe/dogs-in-heaven-pope-leaves-pearly-gate-open-.html

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)  Gets A Big Promotion In The Senate to ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee.
URLs: http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/12/republican-nightmares-true-bernie-sanders-big-promotion-senate.html

Item: Shutdown averted following late-night drama -The full roll call on last night’s vote is online here. Note that 67 House Republican broke ranks and opposed the package negotiated and endorsed by their own chamber’s leaders – that’s a little more than a fourth of the caucus – which would have been enough to kill the legislation were it not for the 57 House Democrats who rebuffed their leaders and backed the bill.”
URLs: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/shutdown-averted-following-late-night-drama

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: In the 12 days leading up to Christmas Eve, new Harry Potter content will be released daily on the site https://www.pottermore.com
URLs: http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/twelve-days-of-potter

Item: Pirate Bay was taken offline, officially. Unofficially, it’s still here.
URLs: REDACTED You know how to get there….

Oh, Florida...

Item: Florida Man Arrested For Drunken Rampage Through Grocery Store on Motorized Shopping Cart
URLs: http://offthebeat.blogs.tcpalm.com/2014/12/11/1019/

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: What to do when your Facebook friend posts something offensive: a flowchart http://www.vox.com/2014/12/12/7376601/facebook-offensive-post
AND http://xchat.org/ for access to our IRC hosted at GeekShed.net #orlyradio
Don’s: Caruva Horchata Booze!

ORly Radio Show 35 - #WeCantBreathe

ORly Radio Show 35 for Friday December 5th, #WeCantBreathe

Is America broken? Or is it just being exposed more for the way it has always been?

 Hosts: Andy & the Usual Suspects: Mike, David, Ann, and Don!!!
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: Why Orion's launch is the best news for humanity in a long time - the four-person capsule will be set to carry a crew to an asteroid and then to Mars, and NASA predicts they’ll land on the Red Planet by mid-2030.
URLs:http://sploid.gizmodo.com/why-orion-launch-is-the-best-news-for-humanity-in-a-lon-1666887643

http://www.sciencealert.com/breaking-nasa-is-sending-humans-to-mars
Item: Astronomers using NASA data have calculated for the first time that in our galaxy alone, there are at least 8.8 billion stars with Earth-size planets in the habitable temperature zone.
URLs:  http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/8-8-billion-habitable-earth-size-planets-exist-milky-way-f8C11529186

Item: Group trying to get crowdfunding for Warp Ship!
URLs: http://www.openminds.tv/group-attempting-crowd-fund-space-warp-technology/31073

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: 11 year old Brit,  Ramarni Wilfred, scored higher on his IQ test than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking
URLs: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-smartest-schoolboy-11-year-old-boy-4056609
Item: Eric Garner. no justice.
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-american-justice-system-is-not-broken-1666445407
URLs: Jon Stewart Vents Complete Frustration with Justice Following Eric Garner Decision http://www.forwardprogressives.com/surreal-segment-jon-stewart-vents-complete-frustration-justice-following-eric-garner-decision/

Broken Window’s Police Theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
Rand Paul: 'What The F**k Are You Talking About?'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/05/jon-stewart-chokehold_n_6273864.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/nypd-cop-who-choked-eric-garner-wasnt-indicted-but-man-who-recorded-the-incident-was/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: CDC Warns That The Flu Season May Be A Bad One
URLs: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/12/04/368438117/h3n2-cdc-warns-that-the-flu-season-may-be-a-bad-one
Item:The Republican Party's top priority is to raise taxes on the poor. Literally.
URLs: http://theweek.com/article/index/272922/the-republican-partys-top-priority-is-to-raise-taxes-on-the-poor-literally

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: What was fake on the Internet this week: Dog whisperer death and the Zodiac Killer
URLs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/12/05/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-dog-whisperer-death-and-the-zodiac-killer/

Oh, Florida...

Item: Starting on Jan. 5, judge rules, gay couples can legally marry in Florida
URLs: http://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2014/12/03/starting-on-jan-5-judge-rules-gay-couples-can-legally-marry-in-florida
Item: DeLand police: Man, 44, stole 6.5 pounds of cow tongue from Walmart
URLs: http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2014/12/1/cow_tongue_arrest.html

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Kahlua Peppermint Mocha! OMG good!
David’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvAJIVSLqK4

Don’s: Cheese bread