ORly Radio Show 43 - Winter is Coming, Eventually

ORly Radio Show 43 for Friday January 30th, 2015 - Winter is Coming, Eventually

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

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: Survey Says: Study reveals wide gaps in opinion between scientists and general public
URLs: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/study-reveals-wide-opinion-differences-scientists-general-public/
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/01/29/public-and-scientists-views-on-science-and-society/
Item: FCC more than quintuples the legal definition of 'broadband'
URLs: http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/29/fcc-redefines-broadband-speed/
Item: Delta Pilot gets locked out of cockpit mid flight.
Audio Clip & URLs: https://gma.yahoo.com/delta-plane-makes-emergency-landing-pilot-locked-cockpit-055600464--abc-news-topstories.html

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: American Family Association fired the Religious Right's most notorious bigot, Bryan Fischer.
URLs: http://www.righwingwatch.org/content/afa-cannot-wash-its-hands-bryan-fischers-bigotry-easily
URLs:  http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/12/08/american-pastor-who-helped-uganda-create-kill-the-gays-law-will-be-tried-for-crimes-against-humanity/
Item: Chuck Norris wants to engage young people in democracy, by insulting us.
URLs: http://samuel-warde.com/2015/01/young-voters-unpatriotic-according-chuck-norris/
Item: Chuck Norris makes sounds instead of kicking people.
URLs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ud3pK5Wa90

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, basically threw Speaker Boehner (R-OH) under the bus.
URLs: http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/30/israeli-ambassador-throws-speaker-boehner-netanyahu-speech-bus.html
Item: Romney will not make a third bid for the White House.
URLs: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/third-time-wont-be-the-charm-romney

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in George R.R. Martin’s  A Song of Ice and Fire series, won't be released in 2015
URLs http://www.dailydot.com/geek/grrm-publisher-winds-of-winter-2015/ 

Oh, Florida…

Item: Biotech company to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida
URLs:http://www.geek.com/science/biotech-company-to-release-millions-of-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-in-florida-1614727/
Item: Radio contest has grand prize of foursome sex between one lucky winner and three porn stars. Because Florida.
URLs: http://www.barstoolsports.com/nyc/super-page/radio-station-running-a-porn-star-for-a-day-contest-where-the-winner-has-a-foursome-with-three-porn-stars/

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Steam Lego Series Games on sale this weekend. https://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_60_4__12&term=lego

Orly Radio Show 42 - 42, the Meaning of Life, or about how many senators believe in climate change.

ORly Radio Show 42 for Friday January 23rd, 2015 - 42, the Meaning of Life, or about how many senators believe in climate change. Science is still true even if you don’t believe in it...

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

Narrator: There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Why 42 for the meaning of life, the universe and everything?

According to Douglas Adams himself:

What is the most ordinary, workaday number you can find? I don’t want fractions on the end of it. I don’t even want it to be a prime number. And I guess it mustn’t even be an odd number. There is something slightly more reassuring about even numbers. So I just wanted an ordinary, workaday number, and chose 42.

In another interview:

The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story.

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/310/why-did-douglas-adams-pick-42-as-the-ultimate-answer

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: 3 Minutes to midnight.
"The clock ticks now at just three minutes to midnight because international leaders are failing to perform their most important duty—ensuring and preserving the health and vitality of human civilization."
URLs: http://thebulletin.org/clock/2015
Item: The King is Dead - King Abdullah has passed on. Now what?
URLs: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-22/oil-surges-after-saudi-media-reports-king-abdullah-s-death.html
URLs: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/breaking-saudi-arabias-king-abdullah-dead

Item: Senate agrees climate change is real, but not on its cause, in Keystone amendments
"To express the sense of the Senate that climate change is real; and human activity significantly contributes to climate change."
In the end, just 50 senators voted "yes" on this question.* But 49 senators voted "no." The amendment failed to pick up the 60 votes necessary to overcome a filibuster and was rejected.
In conclusion, the Senate is pretty clearly a hoax.
URLs:http://cir.ca/news/keystone-pipelines-status
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/21/7868677/senate-climate-vote

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: Israeli PM Netanyahu and Speaker Boehner conspire to make life difficult...|
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/21/7866089/netanyahu-boehner-congress
URLs:  http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/22/obama-meet-netanyahu-trip-washington.html
Item: GOP lawmakers declare ‘all-out assault’ on marriage for same-sex and atheist couples in Oklahoma
URLs: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/gop-lawmakers-declare-all-out-assault-on-marriage-for-same-sex-and-atheist-couples-in-oklahoma/

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Illinois cop caught dozing in patrol car tells student ‘it’s now illegal’ to record officers (Which it is not…)
URLs: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/illinois-cop-caught-dozing-in-patrol-car-tells-student-its-now-illegal-to-record-officers/  
Item: It's over: Why the Palestinians are finally giving up on Obama and the US peace process
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/22/7324107/palestinian-abbas-peace-process

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: House Republican leaders withdrew a controversial anti-abortion bill late Wednesday night after a contentious dispute arose over a rape reporting requirement in the measure.
URLs: http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/22/bickering-gop-aborts-anti-abortion-bill-rape-reporting-provision.html 

Oh, Florida...

Item:  Bear hunting may return to Florida - Proposal comes after recent rash of attacks in Orlando area
URLs:  http://www.clickorlando.com/news/bear-hunting-may-return-to-florida/30878646
Item: A Teenage Boy Impersonated A Doctor For A Month In A Florida Hospital    
URLs: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/a-teenage-boy-impersonated-a-doctor-for-a-month-in-a-florida
URLs: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/doogie-howser-wannabe-busted-786450

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Douglas Adams. There. I said it.
David’s: http://www.gotenna.com/
Don’s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Frequency_Allocations_Chart_2011_-_The_Radio_Spectrum.pdf 
Mike’s: Friends on Netflix

ORly Radio Show 41 - Oh The Humanity

ORly Radio Show 41 for Friday January 16th, 2015 - Oh The Humanity!

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

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: Elon Musk Donates $10M To Make Sure AI Doesn't Go The Way Of Skynet|
URLs: http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/15/elon-musk-donates-10m-to-make-sure-ai-doesnt-go-the-way-of-skynet/
Item: Viruses important to intelligence, you won’t understand why.
URLs:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/junk-dna-from-million-year-old-viruses-actually-have-vital-role-in-human-intelligence-study/
Item: Lego worm brain!
URLs: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/weve-put-worms-mind-lego-robot-body-180953399/?no-ist
Item: Human activity has pushed Earth beyond four of nine ‘planetary boundaries’ AKA - We gotta get off this rock.
URLs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/scientists-human-activity-has-pushed-earth-beyond-four-of-nine-planetary-boundaries/2015/01/15/f52b61b6-9b5e-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2015/01/14/science.1259855

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: #BlackLivesMatter protesters block highway with concrete barrels outside Boston
URLs: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/black-lives-matter-blocks-highway-boston/
Item: Pope shocks world with views on breastfeeding.
URLs:http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/11/infallible-pope-settles-it-breastfeeding-in-public-no-harm-to-god-so-whats-your-problem/

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Texas Ammosexuals Re-Enact Charlie Hebdo Shooting With ‘Armed Civilian’ — Everyone Still Dies (VIDEO)
URLs: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/14/texas-ammosexuals-re-enact-charlie-hebdo-shooting-with-armed-civilian-everyone-still-dies-video/
Item:The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether all 50 states must allow gay and lesbian couples to marry
URLs: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/us/supreme-court-to-decide-whether-gays-nationwide-can-marry.html?referrer&post_id=1462903492_10205414456948529&_r=0#_=_

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: High-speed rail in California
URLs: http://www.salon.com/2015/01/06/americas_most_ambitious_infrastructure_project_of_the_century_why_todays_high_speed_rail_launch_is_miraculous/
Item: New Congress Begins Anti-Environment Attack With ‘No More National Parks’ Bill
URLs: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/16/3612702/new-congress-no-more-national-parks-bill/

Oh, Florida...

Item: George Zimmerman - The hero who saved Sanford from Trayvon Martin fallen from grace…. Sarcasm runs thick.
URLs: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0110/Gun-hero-George-Zimmerman-ordered-to-surrender-arms-after-assault-video

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: The Abyss Beyond Dreams: Chronicle of the Fallers, Book 1 by Peter F. Hamilton
David’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnsdc7cTPuU

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

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