ORly Radio Show 94 - How US Elections Wonk PT1 Nominations

Welcome to ORly Radio Show 94 for Friday January 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 David O’Connor, Michael Robinson, Fred Sims, Stephen Griffith, and Ren Cowen.

We got an iTunes review!

Great show *****  by Histrionicspock
This show should be called, "Getting angry at ignorance" :) It is super fun to listen to the hosts inform, but also entertain by how justifiably angry they get at the ignorant people in today's society. Worth a listen!

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The zika /ze ̄ kă/ / ZEE'-ka/ virus was first described in 1947 as an RNA virus found  in rhesus monkeys of the Zika Forest of Uganda, Africa.  The first large outbreak recorded in humans was outside Africa and occurred 2007 in Micronesia with about 5000 people reporting symptoms like dengue fever.   A look at saved blood samples from West Africa showed infections in humans from 1968 – 2002.  Symptoms were mild dengue like sickness, but were not noticed at the time because the blood was taken to identify other problems.  At some point the zika virus mutated and jumped species from monkeys to humans. The RNA genotype was fully sequenced by 2007 showing 43 distinct strains.  The zika virus showed adaption to many different species of mosquitos as an intermediate host: Zika is able to invade and be transmitted by several species of mosquitos.  By 2014 zika had outbreaks in Europe, Asia and Indonesia.  No microcephalus cases were noted in babies in any of these or subsequent outbreaks, but that may be because they were not looking for it.  Perhaps during the world cup soccer match the virus began to show up in South America in 2014.  In 2015 Brazil reported to the World Health Organization the number of microcephaly cases suddenly rose to ten times the normally reported cases (some reports say the increase was 90 times normal).  Because zika can live in nerve cell it was postulated that the increase in reported zika cases could be the causal link to the increase in microcephaly.  The actual link and mode of action has not yet been demonstrated.  Zika arrived in Brazil in 2014 and has spread as far as Central America with a few transported cases from there reported in the U.S.  I live in Michigan where it is currently 11 degrees.  Since this is a tropical and sub-tropical virus so far, I give it a few years before it reaches me and by that time hopefully, much of the science about this virus will be done.  Stay calm and swat mosquitos.
http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0002681
http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0001792
http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0002636
miles aka meters1600

RANT Segments & Headlines:

1. On this Day in History:

   1. Kansas admitted to Union as 34th State - A Free State - 1861

   2. Iran signs treaty of alliance with Great Britain and USSR - 1942

   3. William McKinley born - 25th President, 1st to Ride in Car - 1843

   4. Kubrick’s black comedic masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove Premieres - 1964

   5. “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe Published - 1845

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The Good:

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/us/oregon-standoff.html?_r=0 Ammon Bundy has been arrested along with 10 others.

2. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-equal-pay-obama-20160129-story.html Obama is working to close the gender gap by making companies report wages.

-BREAK- Fallacy https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/loaded-question

The Bad:

1. http://www.sltrib.com/home/3477802-155/iran-flies-unarmed-military-drone-over Things are still shaky with Iran.

The Ugly:

1. http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/oklahoma-lawmaker-wants-to-outlaw-depressed-and-suicidal-lgbt-children-from-seeing-gay-friendly-therapists/ Oklahoma Republican Sally Kern hates gays :(

2. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/us/burns-oregon-protest.html The untold costs of sedition.

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: xsplitbroadcaster... brokesauce.

Fred’s: https://www.teevillain.com/ Taking over the world one t-shirt at a time.

David’s: http://www.sltrib.com/home/3477809-155/everything-we-know-about-teslas-secret Because drooooooool.

Stephen’s:  http://obviousplant.tumblr.com/

Acknowledgements:

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