ORLY-EP0136B - SCIENCE: Talking Monkeys, 3 Parent Babies, Vaping

ORLY-EP0136B - SCIENCE: Talking Monkeys, 3 Parent Babies, Vaping

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #136b recorded Friday December 16th, 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, Ris McCool, Fred Sims, Amber Biesecker, David O’Connor, Stephen Griffith, and Daniel Atherton.

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Science Bitches!  

  1. Experiments with macaque monkeys have found that they have the vocal capability, but not the cognitive know-how to speak. http://www.iflscience.com/brain/monkeys-should-be-able-to-talk-if-only-they-had-the-brains-to-do-so/

  2. Fertility clinics in the UK can now apply for licenses to create 3-parent babies http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/15/505695231/u-k-fertility-clinics-can-now-apply-for-licenses-to-create-3-parent-babies

  3. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2016/12/the_surgeon_general_s_report_on_e_cigarettes_is_surprisingly_mild.html

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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-EP0128C - SCIENCE-Food, Comas, Space Nations, Energy

ORLY-EP0128C - SCIENCE-Food, Comas, Space Nations, Energy

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #128 recorded Friday October 14th, 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 suspect, Stephen Griffith

Science Bitches!  

  1. http://vitals.lifehacker.com/it-doesnt-matter-when-you-eat-1787711505

  2. http://futurism.com/world-first-ultrasound-used-to-jump-start-patients-brain-out-of-a-coma/

  3. http://futurism.com/scientists-seek-un-approval-to-create-asgardia-earths-first-space-nation/

        http://asgardia.space/citizenship

  1. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28770876

  2. http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/10/germanys-bundesrat-votes-to-ban-the-internal-combustion-engine-by-2030/

  3. http://futurism.com/solar-power-cost-has-dropped-25-in-only-5-months/

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ORLY-EP0125B - Unintended, Illegal, & Annoying Consequences

ORLY-EP0125B - Unintended, Illegal, & Annoying Consequences

Welcome back to ORLYRADIO #125b recorded Friday September 9th, 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 Daniel Atherton.

Science Bitches!  

  1. Global Wilderness Loss https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/08/the-world-has-lost-a-10th-of-all-its-wilderness-in-the-past-two-decades/

  2. From this point forward, all Intel and AMD CPUs are Windows 10-only http://www.extremetech.com/computing/234881-from-this-point-forward-all-intel-and-amd-cpus-are-windows-10-only

  3. The EM Drive that shouldn’t work by the current model of physics will be tested for real by NASA. http://www.sciencealert.com/the-impossible-em-drive-is-about-to-be-tested-in-space

Law & Order:

  1. Native Americans and Oil don’t mix:

    1. Justice Down the Pipe https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/joint-statement-department-justice-department-army-and-department-interior-regarding-standing

    2. http://usuncut.com/news/federal-agency-busted-elaborate-scheme-sell-native-american-land-corporations/

    3. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/295223-obama-administration-orders-nd-pipeline-construction-to-stop  and  http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/the-obama-administration-temporarily-blocks-the-dakota-access-pipeline/499454/

  2. https://www.thenation.com/article/this-week-may-see-the-largest-prison-strike-in-us-history/

        http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-prisoners-nationwide-are-striking/

  1. Clinton’s boring email “scandal” http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/tracking-the-clinton-controversies-from-whitewater-to-benghazi/396182/

-BREAK- Voicemail

Good Ideas:

  1. Tesla Model 3 http://www.theweek.co.uk/tesla-model-3/70320/tesla-model-3-price-specs-and-everything-we-know

  2. Mexico is to consider a proposal to revoke its treaties with the US, including the 1848 agreement that transferred half its territory to Washington if Donald Trump is elected and tries to make the US’s southern neighbour pay for a border wall. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/mexico-senator-proposes-taking-back-land-from-the-us-if-donald-trump-becomes-president-a7228596.html

  3. ITT Technical Institute shuts down after 50 years. http://www.wftv.com/news/local/after-nearly-50-years-of-classes-itt-tech-shutters-campuses-across-florida-nation/437920043

  4. Super powerful solar panels: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/3d-solar-panels-can-produce-20-times-more-energy-than-flat-panels/

-BREAK- GSoW - PSA

Bad Ideas:

  1. No Pension. No Peeps.  http://www.bctgm.org/2016/09/local-6-peeps-workers-strike-in-pennsylvania/

  2. Poor Incentives http://www.businessinsider.com/wells-fargos-scandal-is-a-cautionary-tale-about-incentive-pay-2016-9

  3. Follow the Pharma Money. http://www.alternet.org/drugs/maker-deadly-fentanyl-kicks-half-million-dollars-defeat-pot-legalization-arizona#.V9L0i5NqTA4.facebook

  4. British Gun Politics. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/arms-sales-saudi-arabia-theresa-may-staunch-defence-keep-people-streets-britain-safe-a7230836.html

    Britan now worlds 2nd largest arms dealer:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britain-is-now-the-second-biggest-arms-dealer-in-the-world-a7225351.html

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Acknowledgements:

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