ORLY-EP0151B - SCIENCE! - Dead Reef, DinoChicken, and SPACE

ORLY-EP0151B - SCIENCE! - Dead Reef, DinoChicken, and SPACE

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #151 recorded Friday, April 14th, 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 Biesecker and Daniel Atherton.

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Science Bitches!  

  1. The Great Barrier Reef is now terminal.
    http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/australia/the-great-barrier-reef-is-now-terminal.aspx

  2. Scientists sometimes don’t ask if they should do a thing before they do it.  A chicken embryo with a dinosaur-like snout instead of a beak has been developed by scientists. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150512-bird-grows-face-of-dinosaur

  3. Astronomers might have captured the first-ever photo of a black hole’s event horizon
    http://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-might-have-just-captured-the-first-ever-photo-of-a-black-hole-s-event-horizon

  4. First images of the web of ghostly dark matter that holds galaxies together
    http://www.sciencealert.com/these-are-the-first-images-of-a-ghostly-web-connecting-together-galaxies

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ORLY-EP0106A - Doing The Splits

ORLY-EP0106 - Doing The Splits

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #106 for Friday April 22nd, 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, Michael Robinson, Fred Sims, Stephen Griffith, and Daniel Atherton.

Audience Feedback From Previous Shows:

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RANT Segments & Headlines:

  1. R.I.P: Prince and Doris Roberts (Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond) {+ Michelle McNamara & Joanie “Chyna” Laurer}

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This Week in History:

Sources: http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history

  1. April 19th - 1775 Marks the beginning of the American Revolution as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts

  2. April 19th Connecticut finally ratifies the Bill of Rights in 1939

  3. April 20th - 4/20 is ruined for everyone without sense of humor enough to appreciate that Adolph Hitler was born in 1889

  4. April 20th - 1940 the first electron microscope is demonstrated

  5. April 20th - 1999 Two students enter Columbine High in Littleton, Colorado and open fire with multiple firearms killing 13 students & teachers, wounding 25 & eventually shooting themselves.

  6. April 21st - Maryland Toleration Act, granting freedom of worship passed in 1649. As the first law on religious tolerance in the British North America, it influenced related laws in other colonies and portions of it were echoed in the writing of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom in American law.

  7. April 21st - Mark Twain dies in 1910 at the age of 75. “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt”

  8. April 21st - Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh arrested in 1995

  9. April 22nd - 1904 saw the birth of the birth of the Atomic bomb as J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist and director of the Manhattan project is born

  10. April 22nd - Despite the widely held, yet historically ignorant, belief that “our money has always said that…” the motto ‘In God We Trust’ is ordered to be added to all US coins by Congress in 1955

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Science Bitches!

  1. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4753

  2. http://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-battery-can-be-recharged-hundreds-thousands-times

    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

  3. http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/soviet-era-treatment-could-be-new-weapon-war-against-antibiotic-resistance

  4. http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/study-confirms-wildlife-flourishing-chernobyl-exclusion-zone

    1. Wayback machine - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/science/nature-adapts-to-chernobyl.html

  5. http://www.iflscience.com/space/alpha-centauri-right-place-search-life-elsewhere

  6. http://phys.org/news/2016-04-state-molecule.html

  7. http://io9.gizmodo.com/5840854/dinosaur-feathers-discovered-in-canadian-amber

ORly Radio Show 84 - Ben Carson’s Pyramid Scheme

ORly Radio Show 84 - Ben Carson’s Pyramid Scheme

Welcome to ORly Radio Show 84 for Friday November 6th, 2015 - 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 Michael Robinson and Ophelia Falls.

You can find Ophelia here: http://opheliainthedark.tumblr.com/

Michael is over here: http://fathergrigorivonklaussen.tumblr.com/

Errata: We make mistakes. Please, if you find one, pause the podcast, and send us a note. orlyradiopodcast@gmail.com or phone it in 470-222-6759  http://www.people.com/article/robin-williams-widow-susan-williams-people Susan Williams shared with PEOPLE the details of the debilitating brain disease called Diffuse Lewy Body Dementia or Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) that took hold of Williams and the couple's harrowing ordeal to fight it.  

"It was not depression that killed Robin," Susan says, speaking to the public perception of what drove Williams to commit suicide. "Depression was one of let's call it 50 symptoms and it was a small one."

From LBDA.org http://www.lbda.org/category/3437/what-is-lbd.htm

RANT Segments & Headlines:

  1. http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/2/9661556/amazon-books-first-physical-bookstore-opening-seattle

  2. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/fos--bco102615.php

  3. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lawrence-lessig-drops-democratic-presidential-bid

  4. http://thescienceexplorer.com/universe/scientists-can-build-molecules-made-pure-light

  5. http://blog.cosmosmagazine.com/blog/2015/10/28/sonic-tractor-beam-brings-star-trek-closer-to-reality

  6. Video - http://futurism.com/videos/this-touchable-hologram-lets-you-feel-3d-shapes-in-midair/ These 3D objects are rendered using focused ultrasound and can move and rotate in real time

  7. GOP Presidential Contestant, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has been caught lying about things in his autobiography, and thinks that the pyramids were the grain storehouses of Joseph from the bible. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ben-carson-campaign-politico-story-saying-westpoint-scholarship-is-a-lie-is-itself-a-lie/ and http://news.groopspeak.com/ben-carson-admits-he-lied-about-getting-scholarship-to-west-point/  and http://www.buzzfeed.com/natemcdermott/ben-carson-egyptian-pyramids-built-for-grain-storage-not-by#.cs3yvWzvdN

  8. http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/5/9678040/google-android-chip-design-smartphones

  9. http://www.blastr.com/2015-11-4/nasa-just-saw-something-come-out-black-hole-first-time-ever

  10. http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2015/11/5/nasa_says_sun_stripp.html

  11. http://www.nature.com/news/canada-creates-science-minister-post-1.18739

  12. http://www.buzzfeed.com/fionarutherford/doctors-remove-live-tapeworm-from-brain-of-student-who-thoug#.dj8XQemQ3Z

  13. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-summoned-to-appear-for-senate-grilling-over-price-gouging-scheme/

  14. http://www.examiner.com/article/republicans-silent-as-obama-orders-pay-raise-for-the-military

  15. http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/3/9666258/tesla-is-going-to-lock-down-autopilot-so-its-harder-to-do-stupid

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The Good:

  1. http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/11/breaking-obama-will-reject-keystone-xl-pipeline "The State Department has decided that the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interests of the United States. I agree with that decision," Obama said.

  2. Bernie Sanders Introduced a bill to lift the federal ban on Marijuana removing it from the schedule 1 narcotics list. http://www.buzzfeed.com/cjciaramella/sanders-introduces-bill-to-lift-federal-ban-on-marijuana#.osee7zl7Nv

  3. http://usuncut.com/black-lives-matter/anonymous-official-release-alleged-kkk-members-names/

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The Bad:

  1. http://reverbpress.com/business/rupert-murdoch-national-geographic-layoffs/

  2. and http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/4/9668272/google-eu-antitrust-response

-BREAK- Fallacy https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/personal-incredulity

Personal Incredulity
Because you found something difficult to understand, or are unaware of how it works, you made out like it's probably not true.
Complex subjects like biological evolution through natural selection require some amount of understanding before one is able to make an informed judgement about the subject at hand; this fallacy is usually used in place of that understanding.
Example: Kirk drew a picture of a fish and a human and with effusive disdain asked Richard if he really thought we were stupid enough to believe that a fish somehow turned into a human through just, like, random things happening over time.

The Ugly:

  1. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mormon-church-bars-children-same-sex-couples-baptism-blessings-n458416

  2. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/617245/Children-no-God-more-generous-tolerant

  3. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/young-americans-are-becoming-less-religious-and-anti-science-anti-gay-rhetoric-may-be-a-factor-pew/

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion, Volume 1 The Mormons http://amzn.to/1iIZWBH
Ophelia’s:  Galavant on Hulu
Michael’s: Nuka Cola!

Acknowledgements:

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