ORLY-EP0108A - GOP Tire Fire

ORLY-EP0108A - GOP Tire Fire

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #108A for Friday MAY 6th, 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, Michael Robinson, Fred Sims, Stephen Griffith, and Daniel Atherton.

Audience Feedback From Previous Shows:

We make mistakes. Please, if you find one, pause the podcast, and send us a note. orlyradiopodcast@gmail.com or phone it in 470-222-6759

RANT Segments & Headlines:

1. Holy Crap. Trump is the face of GOP for real.

This Week in History:

Sources: http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history

1. May 1st, 1486- Christopher Columbus convinces Queen Isabella to fund expedition to West Indies. I think we all know how that turned out.

2. May 1st, 2011- Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan by US Navy SEALS in Operation Neptune Spear. Thanks Columbus! - see that leap I made?

3. May 2nd, 1970- Student anti-war protesters at Ohio’s Kent State University burn down the campus ROTC building. The National Guard takes control of campus.

4. May 3rd, 1952- The first airplane lands at the geographic north pole

5. May 4th, 1626- American Indian sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons

6. May 4th, 1970- Ohio National Guardsmen open fire on student protestors at Kent State, killing four and wounding 9 others.

7. May 5th, 1494- Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica, which he names Santa Gloria. Oh, that’s how that turned out…ooops, so close.

8. May 5th, 2000- The Sun, Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn align – Earth’s moon is also almost in this alignment – leading to Doomsday predictions of massive natural disasters, although such a ‘grand confluence’ occurs about once in every century.

9. May 5th also a banner day for philosophy as both Soren Kierkegaard and Karl Marx were born on this day just 5 years apart in 1813 and 1818

10. May 6th, 1856- Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis.

11. May 6th, 1937- The dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey. [OH THE HUMANITY!]

-BREAK- Logical Fallacy-

http://www.logicalfallacies.info/relevance/fallacists/

Fallacist’s Fallacy

Explanation

The fallacist’s fallacy involves rejecting an idea as false simply because the argument offered for it is fallacious. Having examined the case for a particular point of view, and found it wanting, it can be tempting to conclude that the point of view is false. This, however, would be to go beyond the evidence.

It is possible to offer a fallacious argument for any proposition, including those that are true. One could argue that 2+2=4 on the basis of an appeal to authority: “Simon Singh says that 2+2=4”. Or one could argue that taking paracetamol relieves headaches using a post hoc: “I took the paracetamol and then my headache went away; it worked!”

Each of these bad arguments has a true conclusion. A proposition therefore should not be dismissed because one argument offered in its favour is faulty.

Example

“People argue that there must be an afterlife because they just can’t accept that when we die that’s it. This is an appeal to consequences; therefore there is no life after death.”

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Science Bitches! Approx 30 minutes

1. AC - Are lab mice too cold? http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/cp-alm041216.php

2. AC - Two separate papers published this week, one in Nature and one in Nature Cell Biology, have reported culturing human embryos for nearly two weeks, going well beyond previous efforts. There’s no reason to believe that the embryos couldn’t have survived beyond the two-week mark, but the experiment had to be halted to adhere to the internationally agreed 14-day limit on human embryo research. http://gizmodo.com/scientists-are-one-step-closer-to-building-artificial-w-1774890495

3. AC - Elon Musk Madness:

   1. AC - http://gizmodo.com/spacex-just-made-its-fastest-succesful-rocket-landing-o-1775060445

   2. Tesla Model X Bioweapon Defense Mode is real, and really good. http://www.popsci.com/tesla-air-filter-works-against-airborne-bioweapons

4. The Transit of Mercury! - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/06/mercury-is-about-to-pass-in-front-of-the-sun-and-it-should-be-incredible-to-watch/
   And, as always, I recommend watching with Slooh http://live.slooh.com/

5. BoatyMcBoatface is dead; Long live BoatyMcBoatface? http://www.iflscience.com/environment/name-nercs-polar-search-ship-has-finally-be-announced

6. Goodnight, sweet prince - discoverer of buckyballs passed away.  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/science/harold-kroto-nobel-prize-winning-chemist-is-dead-at-76.html

ORLY-EP0107A - Poverty, History, and Science

ORLY-EP0107A - Poverty, History, and Science

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #107a for Friday April 29th, 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, Michael Robinson, Fred Sims, Stephen Griffith, and Daniel Atherton.

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From LissaP: I'm listening to your show and the lack of investment in Civics was just mentioned, so I'd like to clarify. It has been widely recognized that the deficit in people's understanding of the workings of the government has grown. In an effort to deal with that, in the state of Florida at least, Civics is a mandatory class in middle school, just like Government always has been in high school. (I didn't take Civics as a kid; it was expected to be embedded in various social studies courses, whether it actually was or wasn't.) Now,, the methods that are used to prioritize and emphasize a given subject area can be faulted, of course, but Civics has been given prominence recently. It has an EOC (end of course exam) that must be passed or the course needs to be retaken. This test score is given so much emphasis that it actually weighs pretty heavily in the calculation of school grades, proportionally speaking. This ensures that student mastery of the content is important to the school. And the test itself is quite rigorous. Now, it takes time to see the fruits of any educational initiative in the real world, but we're trying. My 2¢.

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RANT Segments & Headlines:

1. Poverty:  Talk is free. Ideas are free. Networking with people and collaboration is the right way to bootstrap. Even Donald Trump needed a loan from Daddy Warbucks to get started, so, my advice
   Make long term plans. It is damn hard to get out of the hand to mouth mindset without a plan. It can be meager, but start at retirement and work backwards. Start at like 70, then 60, then 50, 40, 35.... Each one must build to where you want to be at the next level.
   Once you have a plan, you can make informed incremental change.
   As an example. Tax time, you get a refund, what will you do with next year's return? Will you buy the better items that will help you save more day to day, like the boots? If you plan now, next year will be better and the year after that even better.
   Long term goal planning is the best advice I can give anyone from anywhere in any class. How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time, and it's going to take a while.

2. 1 In 4 Americans Have PTSD-Like Symptoms From Financial Stress
   In an analysis of data from 2,011 survey respondents, researchers at Payoff discovered that 23% of respondents were experiencing symptoms commonly associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to their finances. Among Millennials, the number is 36%.
   Among other things, survey respondents were worried about being homeless or were routinely late on payments. Others denied the severity of their debt or the reality of paying it off. People’s behaviors were irrational and motivated by denial and avoidance, leaving them less able to plan or manage their financial lives. “It was just this cluster of negative financial behaviors and fear,” Buckwalter says. “And when you look at the diagnostic criteria for PTSD, it lines up with what we were seeing—the denial, the avoidance, the hypervigilance, the nightmares. It was all there.”
   
   http://www.forbes.com/sites/kateashford/2016/04/22/financial-stress/#6c352efd645c

This Week in History:

Sources: http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history

-BREAK- Logical Fallacy

http://www.logicalfallacies.info/relevance/appeals/appeal-to-wealth/

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Science Bitches! Approx 30 minutes

1. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-29/semantic-atlas-shows-where-in-the-brain-words-are-processed

2. http://www.newseveryday.com/articles/39471/20160429/single-celled-slime-mold-learn-remember.htm

3. http://www.iflscience.com/environment/rising-atmospheric-co2-has-lead-greening-effect

4. http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-eggs-spark-moment-fertilization

5. http://gizmodo.com/the-oceans-are-running-low-on-oxygen-1773519808

ORly Radio Show 74 - Just the News

ORly Radio Show 74 - Just the News

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Welcome to ORly Radio Show 74 for Friday August 21st, 2015 - 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.

Errata From Last Week: We make mistakes. Please, if you find one, pause the podcast, and send us a note. orlyradiopodcast@gmail.com or phone it in 470-222-6759  

LINKS TO BE POSTED LATER.

Acknowledgements:
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

ORly Radio Show 72 - Fox GOP Primary Debate 1, Part 3 - Top Ten

ORly Radio Show 72 - Fox GOP Primary Debate 1, Part 3 - Top Ten

https://youtu.be/iWb3R6mHQi0?t=3h45m9s

Welcome to ORly Radio Show 72 for Saturday August 8th, 2015 - 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, Mike and David!

Errata From Last Week: We make mistakes. Please, if you find one, pause the podcast, and send us a note. orlyradiopodcast@gmail.com or phone it in 470-222-6759  

This week's show(s) is/are all about the Fox News GOP/Republican Primary Debate that was broadcast in a very constrained format from one of their affiliates in Ohio and then put behind a pay wall. Show 72, we MST3K all over the top 10 contenders and have a bit of fun with a drinking game throughout. We apologize if that offends you or if you find this boring. We will get back to a regular program with news and events in a more sober fashion next week. IN the mean time, enjoy the many hours of our broadcast, where we all get very tired by the end, which was 6 full hours after we began on Friday at 9:30pm.

Acknowledgements:

Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)
PSA: Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia - GSoW https://www.facebook.com/GSoWproject

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