ORly Radio Show 7 - Antibiotics, Vaccinations, and Idiots.

ORly Radio Show 7 for Friday May 23rd, 2014

Introduction Script after “Rocket” Music: "Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Hosts Andy and the usual suspects: David and Michael.

Errata From Last Week: Quantum computer, both exists and does not exist, just as you would expect. http://www.isi.edu/research_groups/quantum_computing/home

Science / Technology

Item 1: Masturbation 'cuts cancer risk'
URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3072021.stm

Item 2: Tonight's meteor shower could bring up to 1,000 meteors per hour, which are large enough to stir up radio waves
URL: http://www.salon.com/2014/05/23/tonights_spectacular_new_meteor_shower_can_be_seen_and_heard_heres_how

Item 3: Vaccinations… Kill Cancer?
URLs: http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Anti-Vaccine_Body_Count/Home.html
*read this* http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/05/15/measles-vaccine-cancer-mayo-clinic/9115363/ http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/safetyavailability/vaccinesafety/ucm096228
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/toxic-myths-about-vaccines/
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/additives.htm
The Antivaxer side: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/01/27/mercury-in-vaccines-was-replaced-with-something-even-more-toxic.aspx

Humanities

Item 1: Gay Marriage All over the place    
URL: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/gay-marriage-states-legal-map

Politics

Item 1: Florida Lawmaker Says Common Core Will Turn Kids Gay
URL:http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/05/19/3439163/state-rep-common-core-gay/

Item 2: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX): 3-year-old immigrants don’t deserve legal status if they can’t pay taxes and blasted President Barack Obama’s administration’s efforts at comprehensive immigration reform, saying that the president was “complicit” in sex trafficking by “luring” children into the United States who couldn’t even afford to pay their own taxes.
URL: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/20/louie-gohmert-3-year-old-immigrants-dont-deserve-legal-status-if-they-cant-pay-taxes/

Entertainment/Reviews/Picks

Through the Wormhole is slated to return on June 4.
http://mashable.com/2014/05/23/morgan-freeman-on-helium/

Item 1: Andy: Lantronix xPrint Servers
iOS Apple: Lantronix xPrintServer Home Edition for iOS Printing - XPS1002HM-01-S
Android Cloud Print: Lantronix XPS1002CP-01-S xPrintServer Cloud Print Edition

Item 2: Mike: Insideous http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1591095/

Item 3: Mike:Wildstar MMORPG http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/ 

Item 4: David: Something from the Nightside (Nightside, Book 1)

Potpourri

Item 1: Minnesota Just Became the First State to Ban Anti-Bacterial Soap
URL: http://gizmodo.com/minnesota-just-became-the-first-state-to-ban-anti-bacte-1579074417

Item 2: New Yorker has filed a 22-page handwritten suit in a Manhattan court for two undecillion dollars. The sum, written as two followed by thirty-six zeros $2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
URL: http://www.newser.com/story/187083/ny-man-sues-for-every-penny-on-earth.html
URL: http://www.theguardian.com/law/shortcuts/2014/may/19/worlds-largest-lawsuit-suing-city-new-york


ORly Radio Show 5 - Soylent Neutrality

ORly Radio Episode 5

Hosted by Andy, Mike, and Don!
Music: "Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Science / Technology

Headline 1: THE END OF FOOD - Soylent
URL: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/12/140512fa_fact_widdicombe?currentPage=all&mobify=0

Headline 2: Coalition led by Amazon, Microsoft, and others take a stand against FCC on net neutrality
URL: http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/7/5692578/tech-coalition-challenges-fcc

Humanities

Headline 1: Real Fox News Question: 'Are Female Breadwinners A Problem?'
URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/05/fox-news-female-breadwinners-problem_n_5266335.html

Headline 2: California Sikh Man, Gursant Singh, Barred From Jury Duty For Carrying Religious Dagger
URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/gursant-singh-jury-duty-dagger-kirpan_n_5246955.html

Politics

Headline 1: US attorney general says banks may face criminal cases soon "No individual or company," he says, "is above the law.
URL: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101633128

Headline 2: Supreme Court Upholds Prayer At Government Meetings
URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/05/supreme-court-prayer_n_5266930.html

Entertainment

Reviews and such!
Andy: Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything.
Andy: Lawrence Krauss - The Physics of Star trek.
Mike: Grave Encounters http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703199/
Mike: Apartment 143 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1757742/
Don: Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

Potpourri

Headline 1: Arizona Abortion Bill: Legislators Pass Three Bills, Redefines When Life Begins
URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/az-abortion-bills-arizona-gestational-age_n_1415715.html

Headline 2: Biggest Day in History for U.S. Solar Energy Community
President Obama’s solar announcements:
• Support for the solar workforce. The SunShot Initiative will build on our Solar Instructor Training  Network, an initiative intended to support community college programs that train people to enter the  solar industry. The program aims to help 50,000 people enter the solar workforce by 2020.
• More solar on U.S. businesses. 300+ public- and private-sector business leaders will increase  solar use, including Home Depot, Ikea, Yahoo, Google, Lennar Homes and Goldman Sachs.
• More solar for affordable housing. The largest manager of affordable multifamily housing in the  nation will install an additional 4 megawatts (MW) of solar power by 2020, and the non-profit  Hispanic  Housing Development Corporation to add 530 kilowatts (kw) of solar by the end of 2015.

Headline 3: Education vote that took place today that would allow for expanded charter schools.
URL: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr10/text

 

ORly Radio Show 2 - Johnson's Johnson

2014-04-18
Hosted by Andy, David, and Michael
Music: "Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)