ORLY-EP0108A - GOP Tire Fire

May 7, 2016

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:

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RANT Segments & Headlines:

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

This Week in History:

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

May 1st, 1486- Christopher Columbus convinces Queen Isabella to fund expedition to West Indies. I think we all know how that turned out.
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?
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.
May 3rd, 1952- The first airplane lands at the geographic north pole
May 4th, 1626- American Indian sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons
May 4th, 1970- Ohio National Guardsmen open fire on student protestors at Kent State, killing four and wounding 9 others.
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.
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.
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
May 6th, 1856- Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis.
May 6th, 1937- The dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey. [OH THE HUMANITY!]

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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

AC - Are lab mice too cold? http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/cp-alm041216.php
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
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
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/
BoatyMcBoatface is dead; Long live BoatyMcBoatface? http://www.iflscience.com/environment/name-nercs-polar-search-ship-has-finally-be-announced
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

April 30, 2016

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.

Audience Feedback From Previous Shows:

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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¢.

Thanks again for the help LissaP and keeping us up to date! You too can straighten us out, shoot a message and we’ll read it on the air. orlyradiopodcast@gmail.com or phone or text 470-222-6759

RANT Segments & Headlines:

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.
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

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

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Science Bitches! Approx 30 minutes

ORLY-EP0106A - Doing The Splits

April 23, 2016

ORLY-EP0106 - Doing The Splits

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #106 for Friday April 22nd, 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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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:

R.I.P: Prince and Doris Roberts (Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond) {+ Michelle McNamara & Joanie “Chyna” Laurer}

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This Week in History:

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

April 19th - 1775 Marks the beginning of the American Revolution as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts
April 19th Connecticut finally ratifies the Bill of Rights in 1939
April 20th - 4/20 is ruined for everyone without sense of humor enough to appreciate that Adolph Hitler was born in 1889
April 20th - 1940 the first electron microscope is demonstrated
April 20th - 1999 Two students enter Columbine High in Littleton, Colorado and open fire with multiple firearms killing 13 students & teachers, wounding 25 & eventually shooting themselves.
April 21st - Maryland Toleration Act, granting freedom of worship passed in 1649. As the first law on religious tolerance in the British North America, it influenced related laws in other colonies and portions of it were echoed in the writing of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom in American law.
April 21st - Mark Twain dies in 1910 at the age of 75. “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt”
April 21st - Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh arrested in 1995
April 22nd - 1904 saw the birth of the birth of the Atomic bomb as J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist and director of the Manhattan project is born
April 22nd - Despite the widely held, yet historically ignorant, belief that “our money has always said that…” the motto ‘In God We Trust’ is ordered to be added to all US coins by Congress in 1955

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Science Bitches!

ORLY-EP0105 - Death and Poop, With Dignity

April 16, 2016

ORLY-EP0105 - Death and Poop, With Dignity

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #105 for Friday April 15th, 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, Stephen Griffith and new blood Daniel Atherton.

Reviews!?Errata:

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

This Week in History:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day
Http://history-world.org/ontd.htm

1846 April 14th - Donner Party Sets Out on Ill-Fated Journey from Illinois to California 36 of the 81 in the wagon train perished due to starvation, exposure, disease, and trauma. Some were later eaten to keep the others alive.
1862 April 16 - Slavery abolished in Washington DC.
1865 April 15th - 151 years ago President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while watching a play “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater and died the following day.
1902 April 14th - JC Penny opened his first store in Kemmerer Wyoming.
1903 April 14th - Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1912, April 14th- Titanic sunk after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic
1945 April 12th - Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63. Vice President Harry S. Truman became president (7th Vice President to become President following the death of a current president).
1961 April 12th - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space
1968 April 11 - Civil Rights Act signed a landmark part of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin and made it a federal crime to “by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone … by reason of their race, color, religion, or national origin). Signed into law by Lyndon B Johnson
1970 April 13th - Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. 7th manned mission in the Apollo space program and the 3rd that was supposed to land on the moon. Commander James A. Lovell, John L. "Jack" Swigert, and Fred W. Haise who replaced Ken Mattingly after his exposure to german measles

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Science Bitches!

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The Good:

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Fallacy http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/complex-question/

Explanation

The complex question fallacy is committed when a question is asked (a) that rests on a questionable assumption, and (b) to which all answers appear to endorse that assumption.
Examples

“Have you stopped beating your wife?”

This is a complex question because it presupposes that you used to beat your wife, a presupposition that either answer to the question appears to endorse.

“Are you going to admit that you’re wrong?”

Answering yes to this question is an admission of guilt. Answering no to the question implies that the accused accepts that he is in the wrong, but will not admit it. No room is left to protest one’s innocence. This is therefore a complex question, and a subtle false dilemma.

What Evil Lurks...:

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: 3D Printed Bic Lighter Branding Iron - http://www.shapeways.com/product/ZDGR9ND9X/bic-lighter-branding-iron-1-1-2-inch-square?li=shop-results&optionId=58047189

Stephen’s: The most awesome gift for lovers of the best ground attack jet ever! http://luckyshotusa.com/products/a-10-thunderbolt-ii-warthog-30mm-collectors-inert-cannon-round-in-black

Fred’s: Saving New York one rapid fire burst at a time! http://tomclancy-thedivision.ubi.com/game/en-us/home/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_The_Division

Daniel’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jKsj345Jjw

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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