Episode 153 goes on a cosmic ramble educating the Gergless of many chairful facts about the squire of the hypocondriac

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03:37 Birthday
12:15 Cosmosontv.com New Cosmos series starring Neil deGrass Tyson
24:25 Education
Brian Greene launches worldscienceu.com free physics education
MIT free open classes
ocw.mit.edu
for profit online education
coursera.org
38:55 Reactions to Cosmos
Skeptically Pwned edits Cosmos for rednecks
http://youtu.be/KmdGFWS0m54
45:00 Womenses defend your dignity
56:33 What did we learn


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And here is a picture of a Cosmo from wikipedia (of course)

Episode 101 has a Pope-pouri of news

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00:05:00 Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/donate/index.aspx
00:07:50 Birthday
00:15:30 Noahs Ark by Cornerstone Church opens in San Antonio
00:29:20 New Pope
00:44:10 Sex Education limits in Texas
00:50:30 Concealed Hangun Carry classes shortening
01:04:30 Lightning Round

And Calli tries to dig through the carpet.

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And here it is two weeks in a row: the Big Board!

Episode 063 bunny hops from idea to idea but really ties itself to the point when it is finally made

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00:03:08 Rambling Intro

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

http://youtu.be/rmNfvB5KuIA

00:07:00 Birthdays Sir Frederich Gowland Hopkins

00:11:25 Skeptic Wire Live 1 Aug 2012 (meetup.com/san-antonio-skeptics)

   Gary and Greg live music 23 Jun 2012

   good news Ariel and Jordan update 

   San Antonio CoR hosts Leo Igwe

00:19:27 Michigan Vaginas in the news

00:30:45 Louisiana vouchers backfire plus some of the Christian education standards

00:41:00 Split science education into two tracks? A rambling discussion

00:57:00 not-so-Lightning Round

http://www.livescience.com/20928-psychic-inspired-hoax-victims-sue-police.html

http://www.slashgear.com/new-photos-surface-from-baltic-ufo-dive-investigation-18234316/

Good god means crime, bad god means less crime

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0039048

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/carreon

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2162053/Psychic-49-brainwashed-women-stripping-carrying-sexual-acts-seances-help-contact-dead-relatives.html

John the Baptist but probably not

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47822985

And the dogs have their own discussion about who has the better chance of keeping the chew toy from the other.

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The Big Board

Episode 055 has Teacher Mike es'plain about the US' current administration's education initiative

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This Week:

Intro:

00:01:35 Birthday 

00:08:00 Former Texas SBOE Chairman Don McLeroy on Colbert

00:15:00ish SBOE has changed the standards and diminished important concepts in History

00:18:00 Common Core State Standards

00:20:45 Teacher Mike talks on education and the Obama plans

00:48:00 Shoddy Forensics versus reality

01:05:55 Lightning Round

Gary: Light touching increases chance of getting a date

Donna: McVitties makes Lickable wallpaper

Greg: Brain freeze figured out

Gary: Doctor claims to have found evidence of the G-Spot in the cadaver of an 83 year old woman

Donna: Science makes a sonic screwdriver

Greg: Vermont discusses allowing non-vaccinated kids to go to school

Gary: Anatomic existence of the elusive G-spot confirmed

And the dogs have some sort Fiesta event going on but we weren't invited. I wonder if they had to purchase tickets to eat? Certainly not from me.

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Episode 054 asthmatically runs for office after it surreptitiously gets tested for HIV

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This Week

Intro:
00:01:00 "Pat Tillmans" workout and playing drums
00:05:41 Birthday: Clarence Darrow
00:13:25 http://www.facebook.com/helpreunitearialandjordan
00:15:51 Gail Spurlock Texas SBOE candidate and...worrisome thinker
http://tfninsider.org
Gails vetting video:
http://youtu.be/6uywIjkKd6w
00:25:48 The interesting quotes by Gail Spurlock
00:41:15 Indiana passes a law allowing nonconsentual HIV testing
http://legiscan.com/gaits/view/348071
00:52:31 Kids, asthma, and CAM
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/04/13/alternative-therapies-arent-used-as-substitutes-for-asthma-meds-study
01:06:00 Lightning Round
http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2012-04-17/Naples-acupuncturist-arrested-for-insurance-fraud
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ search for melting-glaciers-liberate-ancient-microbes
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/14/health/military-sexual-assaults-personality-disorder/index.html?hpt=hp_bn12
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/04/santorum-bella-is-now-an-nra-life-member-120479.html
http://www.vaccinateyourbaby.org
http://shotofprevention.com
http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/medias-media/communiques/aviation/2012/a11f0012-20120416.asp

And the dogs once again snore their way through a perfectly good couple of hours, chasing cats and possum and butterflies in their doggy dreams.

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The Big Board

Poe's Corner For Episode 025 - School Bans

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In the UK David Attenborough & Richard Dawkins are calling for creationism to be banned from school syllabus and evolution to be required and started earlier.  Meanwhile in the United States…

#1  http://www.boston.com/news/
A group in one Massachusetts town wants to ban students from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in the public schools, saying it has no educational value and is reminiscent of totalitarian regimes.  Brookline Political Action for Peace will ask town meeting voters in November to pass a nonbinding resolution on the idea. The pledge is already optional in the Boston suburb's schools.  Marty Rosenthal, a lawyer and co-chairman of the group, tells the Boston Herald the pledge is "at odds with America's most important traditions." He says he is not being unpatriotic.

#2  http://www.kval.com
The water bottle ban started at the beginning of the school year for McKenzie School District middle and high school students.  "We can't have closed water bottles at all," said high school student Sydney King. "We have to have them open, we have to fill them up between passing periods."  According to superintendent Sally Storm, the ban is in response to students caught sneaking alcohol into school in water bottles over the past few years.

#3  http://www.fourthestatenewspaper.com/
The De Pere School District however thinks it has figured out a way to fight childhood obesity. Now on picture day, children are not allowed to say cheese anymore—but instead have to say peas.  "We are trying to promote healthy living and options," said Dr. Stuart Mart, Superintendent of De Pere's school district. "Let's face it, cheese is not that good for people to eat."  St. Norbert's professor of psychology, Dr. Phillip Schmitt, did a study and found that when kids hear something, they want to have it immediately.

Which is the satire and which two are the actual stories of efforts to change U.S. schools "for the better"?  Links to the source articles after the break...