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ORly Radio Episode 5

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