ORly Radio Show 47 - RIP Leonard Nimoy

ORly Radio Show 47 for Friday February 27th, 2015 - RIP Leonard Nimoy

Hosts: Andy & the Usual Suspects: Mike, David, and Jess!!!
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

 

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: Scientists Discover Brightest Quasar Ever Powered by Black Hole, Dating to Dawn of Time
URLs: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/scientists-discover-brightest-quasar-powered-black-hole-dating/story?id=29242737
URLs:  http://gizmodo.com/astronomers-discover-mysterious-black-hole-as-massive-a-1688077087
Item: Two-Father Babies Could Soon Be Possible, With No Egg Donor Required
URLs: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/two-father-babies-could-soon-be-possible-no-egg-donor-required

Item: Scientists use tissue engineering to grow leg muscle|
URLs: http://www.embo.org/news/research-news/research-news-2015/scientists-use-tissue-engineering-to-grow-leg-muscle

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: ISIL Destroys priceless history because they are dicks and raging assholes.
URLs: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2970270/Islamic-State-fighters-destroy-antiquities-Iraq-video.html
Item: When even the soulless corporate behemoth Wal-Mart disagrees with the state on human rights, you may be a member of the religious right.
URLs: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/25/walmart-lgbt-discrimination-proposal_n_6751626.html

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: Net Neutrality WIN
URLs: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/fcc-votes-net-neutrality-big-win
Cute Video Reminder of What Net Neutrality is all about. http://vihart.com/net-neutrality-in-the-us-now-what/
Item: Jon Stewart takes the gloves off. Really, he did.
URLs: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/jon-stewart-destroys-fox-news-exposes-50-lies-6-seconds-video/

The Vine he created. https://vine.co/v/O2qFXmwW9uz
Item: Congress OKs 1-week bill to keep Homeland Security open
URLs: http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-prepare-pass-homeland-security-funding-080933043--politics.html

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: That damn dress…. Yes it was an optical illusion and was actually Blue and Black. YAY Cognitive Neuroscience!
URLs: ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET.
Item: The largest airplane in history, a 385-foot (117-meter) wingspan beast designed to carry and launch a giant rocket to space, with a combined weight of 1,200,000 pounds (540,000 kg)!
URLs: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/first-photos-of-the-largest-airplane-ever-now-in-manufa-1688085252

Oh, Florida...

Item: Florida mom accused of sending beaten daughter to school in shaming shirt
URLs: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/gone-viral/os-florida-woman-beats-girl-humiliating-shirt-20150224-post.html
Item: Man tries to steal plane at Ocala International Airport.
URLs: http://www.wesh.com/news/pd-man-tries-to-steal-plane-at-ocala-international-airport/31497410

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: MotoX version 2 and www.RepublicWireless.com  
David’s: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/ Star Citizen!

Mike’s: Red Mars Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
Jess’s: http://www.startalkradio.net/

ORly Radio Show 35 - #WeCantBreathe

ORly Radio Show 35 for Friday December 5th, #WeCantBreathe

Is America broken? Or is it just being exposed more for the way it has always been?

 Hosts: Andy & the Usual Suspects: Mike, David, Ann, and Don!!!
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

Science / Technology / Politics

Item: Why Orion's launch is the best news for humanity in a long time - the four-person capsule will be set to carry a crew to an asteroid and then to Mars, and NASA predicts they’ll land on the Red Planet by mid-2030.
URLs:http://sploid.gizmodo.com/why-orion-launch-is-the-best-news-for-humanity-in-a-lon-1666887643

http://www.sciencealert.com/breaking-nasa-is-sending-humans-to-mars
Item: Astronomers using NASA data have calculated for the first time that in our galaxy alone, there are at least 8.8 billion stars with Earth-size planets in the habitable temperature zone.
URLs:  http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/8-8-billion-habitable-earth-size-planets-exist-milky-way-f8C11529186

Item: Group trying to get crowdfunding for Warp Ship!
URLs: http://www.openminds.tv/group-attempting-crowd-fund-space-warp-technology/31073

Humanities / Religion/ Politics

Item: 11 year old Brit,  Ramarni Wilfred, scored higher on his IQ test than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking
URLs: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-smartest-schoolboy-11-year-old-boy-4056609
Item: Eric Garner. no justice.
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-american-justice-system-is-not-broken-1666445407
URLs: Jon Stewart Vents Complete Frustration with Justice Following Eric Garner Decision http://www.forwardprogressives.com/surreal-segment-jon-stewart-vents-complete-frustration-justice-following-eric-garner-decision/

Broken Window’s Police Theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
Rand Paul: 'What The F**k Are You Talking About?'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/05/jon-stewart-chokehold_n_6273864.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/nypd-cop-who-choked-eric-garner-wasnt-indicted-but-man-who-recorded-the-incident-was/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks

Politics / Humanities / Politics

Item: CDC Warns That The Flu Season May Be A Bad One
URLs: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/12/04/368438117/h3n2-cdc-warns-that-the-flu-season-may-be-a-bad-one
Item:The Republican Party's top priority is to raise taxes on the poor. Literally.
URLs: http://theweek.com/article/index/272922/the-republican-partys-top-priority-is-to-raise-taxes-on-the-poor-literally

Potpourri / Politics / Flotsam & Jetsam

Item: What was fake on the Internet this week: Dog whisperer death and the Zodiac Killer
URLs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/12/05/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-dog-whisperer-death-and-the-zodiac-killer/

Oh, Florida...

Item: Starting on Jan. 5, judge rules, gay couples can legally marry in Florida
URLs: http://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2014/12/03/starting-on-jan-5-judge-rules-gay-couples-can-legally-marry-in-florida
Item: DeLand police: Man, 44, stole 6.5 pounds of cow tongue from Walmart
URLs: http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2014/12/1/cow_tongue_arrest.html

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: Kahlua Peppermint Mocha! OMG good!
David’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvAJIVSLqK4

Don’s: Cheese bread