ORLY-EP0143D - Compulsory Immortality and Picks

ORLY-EP0143D-Compulsory Immortality and Picks

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #143 recorded Friday February 10th, 2017 - 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, Stephen Griffith, Amber Bieseker, Fred Sims, and Daniel Atherton and JP.

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Good Ideas:

  1. A floating city is to be built in the Pacific in the next few years. http://www.iflscience.com/technology/plans-for-worlds-first-floating-city-built-in-pacific-two-years-time/

  2. The United Nations, Has affirmed that abortion is a human right. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-a-grimes/united-nations-committee-affirms-abortion-as-a-human-right_b_9020806.html

  3. The World's First Pollinating Drone Could Help Us Survive the Bee-Pocalypse
    http://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-s-first-pollinating-drone-could-be-the-answer-to-the-bee-pocalypse

Personal Picks:

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ORly Radio Show 12 - Masturbation Waterboarding Boehner

ORly Radio Episode 12 for Friday June 27th, 2014

Hosts: Andy, David, Michael, Don, and Ann!
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Science / Technology

Item 1: Widespread impacts of neonicotinoids 'impossible to deny'
URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27980344
Item1.5 http://www.salon.com/2014/06/26/bee_friendly_plants_sold_at_wal_mart_home_depot_actually_contain_bee_killing_pesticides/

Item 2: New York City, parents do not have the right to send their unvaccinated kids to school if another student has a vaccine-preventable illness, according to a Brooklyn Federal District Court
URL: http://www.vox.com/2014/6/24/5837968/court-ruling-parents-dont-have-the-right-to-send-their-unvaccinated

ITEM 3: Ice sheets may have already passed point of no return
URL: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229752.600-ice-sheets-may-have-already-passed-point-of-no-return.html

Humanities

Item 1: GUESS WHICH COUNTRY DOES THE MOST GOOD FOR THE PLANET?
URL:  http://ideas.ted.com/2014/06/23/guess-which-country-does-the-most-good-for-the-planet/

Item 2: Obama says US should have paid maternity leave
URL:  http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/25841932/obama-says-us-should-have-paid-maternity-leave

Politics

Item 1: Nigeria atheist Bala 'deemed mentally ill in Kano state'
URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28010234

Item 2: Reid, White House warn GOP not to shut down the government (again)
URL: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/reid-white-house-warn-gop-not-shut-down-the-government-again

Item 3: Another brick in the impeachment wall
URL: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/another-brick-the-impeachment-wall

Item 3: John Boehner Says His Plan To Sue Obama Is 'Not About Impeachment'
URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/25/john-boehner-obama-impeach_n_5529923.html
URL2 Video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/25/neil-cavuto-michele-bachmann_n_5531279.html
Audio Response from President Obama.

Potpourri

Item 1: Comedian Bill Cosby's remarks form the basis of a 'We Can't Blame White People' essay.
URL: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/cosby.asp

Item 2: Ebola epidemic in West Africa 'out of control' There have been 567 cases and 350 deaths since the epidemic began in March
URL: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/23/health/ebola-virus-outbreak-west-africa/index.html

Entertainment/Reviews/Picks

Andy: Encyclopedias, OLD encyclopedias
David: Learn something you don’t know how to do. Get an idiots guide. Learn!
Michael: House M.D. 
Don & Ann: The IT Crowd