ORLY-EP0133D - Good Ideas: Dementia Friendly Opera, Universal Basic Income, No Oil In The Everglades

ORLY-EP0133D - Good Ideas: Dementia Friendly Opera, Universal Basic Income, No Oil In The Everglades

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #133 recorded Friday November 18th, 2016 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Fred Sims, Daniel Atherton, and Stephen Griffith.

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Good Ideas:

  1. Scottish Opera had a very special premiere at the weekend - the first dementia-friendly opera performance in the UK Nov-14th https://www.facebook.com/bbcscotlandnews/videos/1362446363779578/

  2. Ontario to try Universal Basic Income http://futurism.com/is-universal-basic-income-a-viable-solution-another-country-is-giving-it-a-shot/

  3. Florida EPA Denies plan to drill for oil near the Everglades http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/fl-oil-drilling-denial-20161116-story.html

ORLY-EP0133B - SCIENCE: HIV Antibodies, Antarctic Sea Ice, Mercury Shrinking, Fracking Quakes

ORLY-EP0133B - SCIENCE: HIV Antibodies, Antarctic Sea Ice, Mercury Shrinking, Fracking Quakes

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #133 recorded Friday November 18th, 2016 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Fred Sims, Daniel Atherton, and Stephen Griffith.

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Science Bitches!  

  1. Scientists discover antibodies to neutralize HIV strains http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3942624/HIV-breakthrough-scientists-discover-antibody-neutralizes-98-strains-virus.html
    https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-scientists-identify-potent-antibody-neutralizes-nearly-all-hiv-strains

  2. Record lows for Antarctic sea ice http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/world/sea-ice-arctic-antarctic-lows/

        -http://www.sciencealert.com/the-north-pole-is-36-degrees-hotter-than-it-should-be-right-now

  1. Side Bar on SCOTUS Nominations. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-can-appoint-merrick-garland-to-the-supreme-court-if-the-senate-does-nothing/2016/04/08/4a696700-fcf1-11e5-886f-a037dba38301_story.html

  2. NASA says Mercury may be shrinking http://www.chron.com/news/science-environment/article/NASA-says-Mercury-might-be-shrinking-10622866.php

  3. Fracking! It’s kind of fracking bad, and now here’s more proof: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/earthquakes-triggered-by-fracking/

ORLY-EP0131B - SCIENCE: Male Birth Control Time Crystals at 5x Normal Fusion

ORLY-EP0131B - SCIENCE: Male Birth Control Time Crystals at 5x Normal Fusion

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #131 recorded Friday November 4th, 2016 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, David O’Connor, Stephen Griffith, and Amber Biesecker.

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Science Bitches!  

  1. Men drop out of birth control study due to “intolerable” side-effects http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/03/500549503/male-birth-control-study-killed-after-men-complain-about-side-effects

    1. http://www.vox.com/2016/11/2/13494126/male-birth-control-study

    2. https://www.parsemusfoundation.org/projects/vasalgel/

  2. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2111320-every-50-cigarettes-smoked-cause-one-dna-mutation-per-lung-cell/

  3. http://futurism.com/the-impossible-particle-existence-of-tetraneutron-confirmed-by-japanese-physicists/

  4. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602541/physicists-create-worlds-first-time-crystal/  

  5. http://futurism.com/omega-laser-could-produce-nuclear-fusion-at-5-times-current-levels/

ORLY-EP0130B - SCIENCE: Entropy? Breaking the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, Gluten Free Extra Virgin Crude Oil

ORLY-EP0130B - SCIENCE: Entropy? Breaking the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, Gluten Free Extra Virgin Crude Oil

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #130 recorded Friday October 28th, 2016 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects,David O’Connor and Stephen Griffith

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Science Bitches!  

  1. WTF Is entropy? In layman's terms, Entropy is the randomness in a system. In computer science randomness is desireable, in physics randomness is unusable, in the grand scheme of life the universe and everything entropy is what the universe is headed for; where all coherent systems decay to randomness or lose their energy. So, for our next topic, Entropy is a high energy state that naturally wants to seek a lower energy state because that is easier to maintain. Like water seeking it’s own level, but at the atomic scale.

  2. Maxwell's Demon may exist in the quantum realm (HARD Science)  The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system always increases over time, or remains constant in ideal cases where the system is in a steady state or undergoing a reversible process. The increase in entropy accounts for the irreversibility of natural processes, and the asymmetry between future and past. http://futurism.com/there-may-be-a-loophole-in-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics/

  3. Google’s futurist, Ray Kurzweil, says living forever starting at 2029 http://trueviralnews.com/googles-leading-futurist-predicts-humans-will-start-living-forever-by-2029/

  4. https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/28/google-ai-created-its-own-form-of-encryption/