ORly Radio Show 19 - Post Office, Robin Williams, and Ferguson SNAFU
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ORly Radio Show 19 for Friday August 15th, 2014 - Post Office, Robin Williams, and Ferguson SNAFU
Hosts: Andy & the Usual Suspects: David, Mike, Don & Ann!!
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)
Science / Technology / Politics
Item 1: Could the US Postal Service improve its financial position by becoming a bank?
URLs: http://www.vox.com/2014/8/14/5989767/postal-banking-questions
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ohio-postal-worker-caught-throwing-mail-article-1.1896885
Humanities / Politics
Robin Williams and the reaction to his suicide.: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2014/08/christians-report-robin-williams-is-in-hell/
Viewer submitted on bullying/depression - http://www.jaredstory.com/you_never_know.html
Politics / Politics
Item 1:Ferguson. WTF...
The timeline http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/14/michael-brown-ferguson-missouri-timeline/14051827/
international reaction: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/08/14/its-gotten-so-bad-in-ferguson-palestinians-have-begun-giving-advice-to-protesters-photos/
the incident report http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/15/michael-brown-police-report_n_5682033.html
Sorta related - police IQ’s - http://politicalblindspot.com/police-officially-refuse-to-hire-applicants-with-high-iq-scores/
Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks
Andy’s: Neal Stevenson - Anathem
David’s: Piers Anthony - On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality, Bk. 1) http://www.amazon.com/Pale-Horse-Incarnations-Immortality-ebook/dp/B006XWYDXY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408156220&sr=1-1&keywords=on+a+pale+horse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckypaper
Don’s:Hemp Super Capacitors
http://inhabitat.com/hemp-supercapacitor-is-as-good-as-graphene-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost/
Mike’s: Civilization Beyond Earth Coming soon!!! Civ in SPACE!!!! https://www.civilization.com/en/games/civilization-beyond-earth/