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Friday, November 23, 2012

Episode 085 Searches for Jesusy Klingons and Nanoparticles

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00:04:40 Birthdays
00:16:05 MS treatment uses nanoparticles and other medical news
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-nanoparticle-halts-multiple-sclerosis-diabetes.html
00:26:00 Anti-science thinking
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/did-jesus-die-klingons-too-and-other-pentagon-projects
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/11/19/florida_senator_marco_rubio_the_age_of_the_earth_is_a_great_mystery.html
00:59:34 Correctional letter

And Harpo wants the toy...gotta get the toy...gimme the toy..TOY


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No big board so here is a picture of a baby playing the slide guitar

(found on http://w4mop.com/ from a google search...I have no idea about that website, only that it had this picture on and they should get credit)




Friday, August 24, 2012

Episode 072 is all up in it, breaking it down and being indignant and stuff

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00:02:40 Birthdays Ray Bradbury, Perry DeAngelis
00:05:55 Osteopathy clarification
00:19:10 Akin, politics, rape, science, and religion in politics
00:54:50 Dan Savage vs Brian Brown
01:02:45 WOT
www.christianliferesources.com
01:07:40 Lightning Round

Be aware that West Nile is going around Texas so use that bug repellent.
Lots of conventions coming up many with skeptical tracks. Go 2.

And the dogs jingle their collars and wonder how much money they could make if they danced around in robes at an airport.

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Friday, June 8, 2012

Episode 061 claws it's way to fame and fortune through the medium of skeptical tunage and interpretive rants


00:04:09 Birthday Guglielmo Marconi and RIP Ray Bradbury
00:12:45 Ariel and Jordan update
00:14:38 Creation quote Museum unquote and Lucy
00:38:35 North Carolina legislates science
00:51:40 Jason Alexander apologizes...really
01:06:00 Song Contest: Garys song "Its a Miracle"
01:14:10 Song Contest: Gregs song "In the Beginning"

And Calliope bookends the discussion by barking the start and stop points.

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Lyrics Gary's Song "Miracle"

Lost in the dark they went searching
Searching everywhere
See moments ago, couldn't have gone far
High and low, near the door, under the blow up mattress
Finally found them in the seat of the car
It's a miracle

She was failing class she needed an A to pass
So she studied for weeks with a tutor she's speak
Working day and night to understand
And on that test something helped her get the questions right

It's a miracle, a miracle
Tho statistics show the odds were pretty good
It's a miracle, a miracle
More often than not things turn out as they would

He was down on his luck down to his last buck
So he bet it all on the lottery
He was so blessed that when he guessed
He got all the numbers spot on
And he and eight other people get to share the winnings
Tho the others didn't need the money at all

It's a miracle, a miracle
Because statistically the odds were long
It's a miracle, a miracle
Even though there was a chance it could happen
Then it was quite possible it just might happen
Don't mean to have your happiness dampened
Fine then it's a miracle

Lyrics Greg's Song "In the Beginning"

In the beginning
In the old testament   
The world was created
Man were bad, floods were sent.   
Holy fire and brimstone
Rained down on Gommorrah   
Ten plagues on Egypt
It’s all there in the torah.   
(CHORUS)
Where are your miracles now?
In the day, god could cook.
Where are your miracles now?
Maybe it’s just a book.

In the beginning
In the old testament   
Red sea was parted
Wars won when walls were rent.   
Men could live in a whale
Manna came from the sky   
Men who looked in the ark
Would just lie down and die.   
(CHORUS)
In the beginning
In the new testament   
A virgin had a child
Shepherds saw the portents.   
Lazarus came to life
Lame could walk, blind could see.   
Touch his robe
Magic in Galilee.   
(CHORUS)

(Instrumental)
(CHORUS)

In the beginning
A little boy in New Jersey   
Goes to his church 
Testament sounds too flimsy.   
Your story doesn’t match
The real world that he sees.   
What’s happened?  What’schanged?
Answer that mystery.  
(CHORUS)
(CHORUS Repeat & fade)




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Friday, May 4, 2012

Episode 056 in which Jordan Clipston fights The Sith or a Terrestrial near-equivalent using the Dark Arts of the Legal System

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This Week:
Intro:
00:02:30 Birthday
00:08:00 Jordan Clipston and Emily Clark http://www.facebok.com/helpreunitearielandjordan
00:42:55 Critical Thinking and Religiosity
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-religion-analytical-thinking-20120427,0,5374010.story
00:49:43 Dan Savage Keynote at the National Scholastic Press Association And Journalism Association Convention
http://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2012/04/christianity-is-bullshit-and-im-not-apologizing-for-saying-that/
01:11:33 Lightning Round
Joke to hijack plane gets a guy in trouble
http://news.yahoo.com/joke-hijack-plane-kill-obama-gets-utah-man-002429373.html
Blind writer and forensics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9197585/Police-save-words-of-blind-author-who-wrote-26-pages-after-pen-ran-out.html
Breathairianism
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/swiss-women-dies-giving-water-food-thought-live-sunlight-article-1.1067359
ProPatch Titanium placebos
http://skepticwire.blogspot.com/2012/05/cant-even-give-this-stuff-awayor-can.html
Art and facial recognition
http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/5453
Pr0n vs christian malware
http://www.webpronews.com/porn-surfing-is-safer-than-browsing-religious-sites-2012-05

And the dogs keep the baddies or perceived/ alleged/ imaginary ne'er-do-wells away through liberal use of growling, barking, leaping, and generally

being a nuisance.


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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

We were almost hit...

...by a Winnebago!


You can also find pictures of the asteroid (<--warning: have to watch an ad first) but don't get your hopes up about seeing something like Saturn's moons or that Armageddon rock.
The asteroid was discovered four days before non-impact and passed below the GPS satellites. Pretty cool.
Shortly after, the flyby was followed by an odd, plaid patterned aurora australis. And some southern radio telescopes report capturing data that sounded like "Looone Sssstaaaaar".

And we have another, larger, one coming by in November that is also supposed to miss, by a larger distance. Which is good because that one's 400 meters long.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Dr. Steven Novella to be on the Dr. Oz Show Tuesday

On the show titled "Why Your Doctor is Afraid of Alternative Medicines"
LinkWhat's great about the above clip is they then go into a segment where they ask "What's real and what's a lie?" as far as endorsements. What: they can't ask the same question in regards to "alternative medicine"? Ah: they assume that Oz has already done the required research he claims he has done.
Another fun quick- cut is Dr. Novella's eyes looking a bit shocked and angry, ostensibly at something Dr. Oz has said. So I bet it's going to be a fair treatment, don't you?

So it will be interesting to see how they are going to cut it: Oprah and her off-shoots have never been worried or honest in their cutting a show together to promote their woo-ish beliefs. Dr. Novella is going to have to be pithy in his replies so they cannot splice and quote-mine his side of the "conversation". I hope Dr. Novella can get a full copy of the pre-cut show, but I would imagine that is bad business practice for the O.W.N.

And hopefully, they'll put the thing online so those of us without a TV can watch it while sipping our Mountain Dews and gnawing on our Cheetos*.





* I believe these are required nutritional assistants when viewing LCD screens. They counter-act the radiation, or something.