Friday, June 29, 2012

Episode 064 computes the chances of meeting aliens but the computer crashes


00:01:00 Intro fan mail (woo-hoo!)
00:05:45 global warming sites and apps: 
Skeptical Science http://skepticalscience.com/
youtuber Greenman3610
00:16:20 Birthdays Mildred J. Hill
00:21:00 Internet Vagina stuff (not THAT kind)
00:24:30 Rant on computer OSes
00:29:20 Iran, US, Israel, and viruses
00:35:00 Two Corpus Christi area female teenagers victims of hate crime?
00:48:20 Nat Geo survey about UFO's and aliens on to a discussion
about how the discovery might affect us
01:14:32 Lightning Round fill in the blank

And I left the barking dogs in just so other dogs can enjoy themselves (both Maese and Calli went running outside when they heard those other dogs barking on the recording...soooo turn it up!)

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

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


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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Friday, June 15, 2012

Episode 062 goes anthropological find hunting on a foreign planet


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00:03:08 Birthdays Gerald Gardner
00:09:40 "Prometheus" duscussion SPOILERS! And it is not pretty
00:27:03 Gay couples and children study
00:49:45 Old men having children: telemeres!
00:56:10 Spray tan not really very good for
01:06:28 Lightning Round in a new way!

Eulerian video magnification talked about at the end (Gary saw it posted by google labs...its actually an MIT thing...go figure)
http://youtu.be/ONZcjs1Pjmk

And the dogs open the water park at the beginning of the shoe but quickly tire of it.

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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, June 1, 2012

Episode 060 investigates the investigators and invests in vested vestibule vests

...which has little to do with the podcast itself.


Wait: don't read the show notes...because spoilers or something.
00:03:35 Birthday Bruno Groening, faith healer type

00:10:40 Texas A&M at San Antonio adjunct professor Sissy Bradford not re-hired after Church-State violation incident
http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/staff/am-sa-slow-to-respond-to-threats-made-in-tower-of-hope-debacle-sissy-bradford-charges/

00:17:55 Boston pole dancing ghosts
http://bostonherald.com/track/celebrity/view/20220510paranormal_spirits_put_twist_on_hub_pole_dancers_classes

00:24:40 Texas Primaries and the State Board of Education
http://tfninsider.org/2012/05/30/split-decision-by-voters-in-texas-sboe-primary-contests/

00:27:52 Religion trumps law say 74% of 1,606 people surveyed
http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/3-in-4-say-religious-rights-trump-law/

00:38:30 Miyam Bialik rejects science of vaccines in favor of...not science.
http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/05/mayim-bialik-disappoints/

00:50:10 Vaccines 
Analysis of Pertussis Vaccine 1900-1970 [abstract]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/399385

00:58:15 Dep of Homeland Security Key Word Watch List released
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html

01:08:00 Lightning Round
http://www.indiegogo.com/takingonthemedicalboard

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/serpent-handling-pastor-profiled-earlier-in-washington-post-dies-from-rattlesnake-bite/2012/05/29/gJQAJef5zU_story.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120523200752.htm

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/New-law-requires-cycling-children-to-wear-helmets-153191275.html

http://tfninsider.org/2012/05/29/texans-david-barton-alex-jones-make-splcs-watch-list-of-leading-radical-righters/

Luc Montagnier (look him up...eye roll)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9297345/Vaccinate-all-school-children-against-flu-experts.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2012/05/29/finnish-scientists-discover-vaccine-to-eliminate-allergies/
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120530/ONPRC-researchers-discover-new-method-to-create-safe-and-effective-vaccines.aspx

And the dogs rattle their tags in hopes we might give treats for their busking. Why they think they need to do this is unknown, as they are fairly well-fed. 

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