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Meg celebrates pi day with a podcast (and later, pie) about the real MVP, Archimedes. Sources: https://www.zmescience.com/science/archimedes-legacy-inventions-discoveries/ https://www.history.com/news/where-did-pi-day-come-from
Source:Italian Vaccination LawOther important links:WebsiteTwitter
Sources:https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/09/700823481/invisibilia-for-some-teens-with-debilitating-pain-the-treatment-is-more-painhttps://twitter.com/opheliajcbrown/status/1104542537232969728https://twitter.com/erinbiba/status/1104610421170950144https://twitter.com/BizKarten/status/1104587965701984256https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/molecules-to-medicine/have-pain-are-you-crazy-rare-diseases-pt-2/https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-quackery/history-hysteria
Dan concludes his three-parter detailing the mundane-turned-insane revenge story of Marvin Heeymeyer.SourcesDamn Interesting Writeuphttps://www.damninteresting.com/the-wrath-of-the-killdozer/Denver Post 14 year followuphttps://www.denverpost.com/2018/07/02/fourteen-years-ago-the-bulldozer-attack-on-my-newspaper-in-granby-was-a-warning/Contemporary sourceshttps://web.archive.org/web/20070311112300/http://www.cozine.com/archive/cc2004/01250121.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070220134042/http://umdstudents.com/viewtopic.php?t=6125http://archives.durangotelegraph.com/04-06-24/mountain_exchange.htmhttp://www.tabpi.org/2006/fpas.pdfhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070311015838/http://www.spokesmanreview.com/tools/story_pf.asp?ID=9810Details on the machinehttp://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/marvin-heemeyers-armored-bulldozer/Specifics of the Land Dealhttps://www.skyhinews.com/news/tiffs-predated-zoning-fight-land-deal-issues-took-place-before-town-squabble/
I’m pretty much at a loss for words regarding these… “fun” news stories. Plus my other computer is being mean to me now. Is it Saturday yet?Like the sounds we make with our mouths? You’ll love the website we made with our computers! Come visit us at www.podcastdotcom.net. If you want to tell Luke to stop it with the terrible puns already, please reach out to us at our gmail address, gmail@podcastdotcom.net.Sources:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/judge-gives-trump-ex-aide-manafort-leniency-under-four-years-in-prison-idUSKCN1QO17Nhttps://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6809a3.htm?s_cid=mm6809a3_e
Meg discusses new Russian legislation, two patients who underwent an edgy treatment that solved their big HIV problem, and the DNC says uh-no to FoxNews Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/06/russian-parliament-outlaws-online-disrespect https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/03/05/a-second-person-has-probably-been-cured-of-hiv https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/06/dnc-fox-news-wont-host-2020-democratic-debates-reports-say/3082151002/
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Sourceshttps://rewire.news/article/2019/02/25/carrie-ann-lucas-disability-rights-activist-and-attorney-dies-following-denial-from-insurance-company/https://adapt.org/https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/unitedhealth-delivers-strong-q4-earnings-end-2018
Thursday chats a new study that confirms the widely held (among some, anyways) belief that the MMF doesn’t increase the risk of autism among 650,000 children. Source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/04/health/mmr-vaccine-autism-study/index.html
Dan continues to detail the events leading up to Marvin Heeymeyer's revenge.SourcesContemporary sourceshttps://web.archive.org/web/20070311112300/http://www.cozine.com/archive/cc2004/01250121.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070220134042/http://umdstudents.com/viewtopic.php?t=6125http://archives.durangotelegraph.com/04-06-24/mountain_exchange.htmhttp://www.tabpi.org/2006/fpas.pdfhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070311015838/http://www.spokesmanreview.com/tools/story_pf.asp?ID=9810Specifics of the Land Dealhttps://www.skyhinews.com/news/tiffs-predated-zoning-fight-land-deal-issues-took-place-before-town-squabble/
It’s my birthday! Or at least, it was when I recorded.Sources:My motherMy father
Guns might be (read: but probably won’t be) harder to buy, and Oregon passes statewide rent control legislation. Sources: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/27/698512397/house-passes-most-significant-gun-bill-in-2-decades https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/oregon-rent-control.html
SOURCES:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47379991https://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/OTHER IMPORTANT LINKS:http://www.podcastdotcom.nethttps://twitter.com/WantToBePodcastmailto:gmail@podcastdotcom.net#eBirdNews
Citations:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/12/deep-fakes-fake-news-truththispersondoesnotexist.comhttps://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gydydm/gal-gadot-fake-ai-pornhttps://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/algorithms-court-criminals-jail-time-fair
Woof woof, mental health improvements as a result of /just being/ in an urban parkAND“Hey, let’s treat our shelter dogs better (and listen to statistics that provoke the credibility of traditional stress tests as a means of evaluation of behavior eligibility of adoption [yes hello silly sentence syntax]”Links:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1558787816300697https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09603123.2019.1577368?tokenDomain=eprints&tokenAccess=Rw6maPZfB2sZAhbS5pwK&forwardService=showFullText&target=10.1080%2F09603123.2019.1577368&doi=10.1080%2F09603123.2019.1577368&doi=10.1080%2F09603123.2019.1577368&doi=10.1080%2F09603123.2019.1577368&journalCode=cije20
One man. One town. One bulldozer. Dan tells the story of Marvin Heeymeyer’s revenge.SourcesDamn Interesting Writeuphttps://www.damninteresting.com/the-wrath-of-the-killdozer/Denver Post 14 year followuphttps://www.denverpost.com/2018/07/02/fourteen-years-ago-the-bulldozer-attack-on-my-newspaper-in-granby-was-a-warning/Contemporary sourceshttps://web.archive.org/web/20070311112300/http://www.cozine.com/archive/cc2004/01250121.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070220134042/http://umdstudents.com/viewtopic.php?t=6125http://archives.durangotelegraph.com/04-06-24/mountain_exchange.htmhttp://www.tabpi.org/2006/fpas.pdfMountain Park Concretehttps://www.playwinterpark.com/buildingremodeling/mountain-park-concrete-inc
Meg chats recent news -- Bernie’s runnin’, Grand Canyon on the rocks, and a financially savvy teen Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/bernie-sanders-2020.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/19/us/teen-makes-35k-plowing-snow-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/health/grand-canyon-radiation-museum-trnd/index.html
SOURCES:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47296781https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/19/fda-young-blood-infusion-danger/https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm631568.htmContent Warning – Fruit Fly Genitals: https://www.livescience.com/64790-fly-testes-fluorescent-galaxy.htmlOTHER IMPORTANT LINKS:http://www.podcastdotcom.nethttps://twitter.com/WantToBePodcastmailto:gmail@podcastdotcom.net#eBirdNews
https://overwatchleague.com/en-us/https://nintendoeverything.com/rumor-nintendo-reviving-dead-and-buried-game-kingdom-hearts-switch-talk/https://goose.game/
Good luck, kid.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidoliahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiQjamFBHMI
Dan introduces the thematic elements of his next episode.SourcesHateful Eight (Frontier Justice Quote)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3460252/characters/nm0000619Old Boyhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/?ref_=nv_sr_1Mementohttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/?ref_=nv_sr_1John Wickhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt2911666/?ref_=nv_sr_2Scotland, PA (good “movietization” of Hamlet)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265713/
Tom talks about the funding for the government, the wall and how dolphins get high from pufferfish
We’ll all miss Opportunity. The pictures taken along the way can be found here:https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/multimedia/images/Like the sounds we make with our mouths? You’ll love the website we made with our computers! Come visit us at www.podcastdotcom.net. If you want to tell Luke to stop it with the terrible puns already, please reach out to us at our gmail address, gmail@podcastdotcom.net.Source:https://www.space.com/mars-rover-opportunity-declared-dead.html
Happy day of love my Early Bird friends. Wishin’ your day to be filled with sundried tomatoes, and other manifestations of love … yoga perhaps!https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0941-9?wpisrc=nl_science&wpmm=1
SOURCES:https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/precipitation/snowOTHER IMPORTANT LINKShttp://www.podcastdotcom.nethttps://twitter.com/WantToBePodcastmailto:gmail@podcastdotcom.net#eBirdNews
Sources:https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310fhttps://lawandcrime.com/legal-analysis/if-amis-jeff-bezos-shakedown-was-criminal-they-can-kiss-their-non-prosecution-agreement-goodbye/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/politics/david-pecker-immunity-trump.html
Hey, feeling cold? Sip on some toasty links:https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/08/health/honeybees-learn-math-study-trnd/index.htmlhttps://www.bbc.com/news/business-47200686
Dan wraps up his meanderings on the Discovery Channel.Sources (for parts I & II)Contemporary news writeuphttp://www.businessinsider.com/discovery-channel-crashes-jet-on-purpose-2012-10Timlinehttps://30yearsofdiscovery.com/History of Discovery Corporationhttps://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/74/Discovery-Communications-Inc.htmlRunner up - the Shatner Rocket Man coverhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I&feature=youtu.be&t=51Clickbait about shark weekhttps://qz.com/249615/the-sad-devolution-of-discovery-channel/Discovery Return to Rootshttps://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/11/racing-extinction-climate-change-discovery-john-hoffman/Revision3 Aquisitionhttps://web.archive.org/web/20120508085119/http://revision3.com/blog/2012/05/03/discovery-communications-to-acquire-top-digital-video-provider-revision3/http://allthingsd.com/20120503/discovery-gets-a-web-video-arm-courtesy-of-revision-3/The Logohttps://www.logaster.com/blog/discovery-channel-logo/“Discovery Channel”, in Lyricshttps://genius.com/search?q=discovery%20channelKids these days don’t know what it’s like to do it like they do on the discovery channelhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/4a3xa7/there_is_a_whole_generation_who_will_hear/FCC cable historyhttps://www.fcc.gov/media/engineering/cable-televisionFoundinghttps://web.archive.org/web/20170704094501/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/doc/307030733.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun%2019,%201988&author=Martie%20Zad&pub=The%20Washington%20Post%20(pre-1997%20Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=&desc=The%20Discovery%20Channel;%20Science,%20Nature,%20Adventure%20and%20Animals%20That%20BiteThe Crocodile Hunterhttps://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Crocodile_HunterShowshttps://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/
Tom talks about specific points of the State of the Union address and how it was viewed and what was true
Luke covers a weighty subject with the potential to impact you directly.Like the sounds we make with our mouths? You’ll love the website we made with our computers! Come visit us at www.podcastdotcom.net. If you want to tell Luke to stop it with the terrible puns already, please reach out to us at our gmail address, gmail@podcastdotcom.net.Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravityhttp://www.17centurymaths.com/contents/newtoncontents.htmlhttps://www.nasa.gov/pdf/171331main_NEO_report_march07.pdfhttps://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/nasa-attempt-to-knock-asteroid-out-of-orbit-2022https://giphy.com/gifs/6nagPyLdkRZm0
Meg discusses recent news: a 1,200 year old bible found in Turkey, New Mexico Governor dismisses border security problems, and rates of cancer increase among folk with obesity. Sources: https://www.foxnews.com/science/ancient-bible-reportedly-recovered-from-smugglers-in-turkey https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2019-02-06/new-mexico-governor-orders-withdrawal-of-national-guard-troops-along-border http://pressroom.cancer.org/JemalTrendsInYoung2019
Sources:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47136308https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/05/self-charging-pacemakers-are-powered-by-patients-heartbeats/https://www.livescience.com/64655-purest-laser.htmlOther Important Links:http://www.podcastdotcom.net/https://twitter.com/WantToBePodcastmailto:gmail@podcastdotcom.net
Sources:https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191814-we-may-finally-know-what-causes-alzheimers-and-how-to-stop-it/https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gum-disease-bacteria-alzheimers-brain-study-link-tenuoushttps://www.alzdiscovery.org/cognitive-vitality/blog/what-apoe-means-for-your-healthhttp://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau3333Contact me on Twitter if you find a mistake in this episode: https://twitter.com/salty_data_eng
Whoa, you too, huh?https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etymology#note-1https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/holy_mackerelhttps://www.skinnytaste.com/how-to-make-nut-butter/
Dan goes out of his domain of expertise, and plays the role of “sports guy” to talk a bit about the New England Patriot’s history in the Super Bowl.SourcesCJ Dudek (friend of the show, “sports guy” on trivia team)Super Bowl game historyhttp://www.espn.com/nfl/superbowl/history/winnersTomhttps://www.wikiwand.com/en/Tom_BradyBillhttps://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bill_BelichickSpygatehttps://www.wikiwand.com/en/Spygate_(NFL)Deflategatehttps://www.wikiwand.com/en/Deflategate
Tom talks about how cold its been and how hot Australia is
Dan (on Luke’s behalf) reads through some “fresh off the press” reporting from the Associated Press.Sourceshttps://www.apnews.com/d2767ce335644e4c9d27386231b1edf3https://www.apnews.com/c829edb312ab4331907008f9d56afa23
Meg chats a state of emergency in Washington due to a measles outbreak, a Tyco Foods recall, and the navy’s first all female flyover. Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/26/health/washington-state-measles-state-of-emergency/index.html https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/measles/symptoms-causes/syc-20374857 https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/health/panko-chicken-nugget-recall/index.html https://news.usni.org/2019/01/30/navy-honor-first-female-fighter-pilot-female-piloted-flyover-funeral
Sources:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47047089https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/28/whisper-laser-tech-sound-to-targeted-people/https://www.livescience.com/64437-crickets-sonic-attack.htmlhttps://weather.com/weather/5day/l/USWI0346:1:USOther Important Links:http://www.podcastdotcom.net/https://twitter.com/WantToBePodcastmailto:gmail@podcastdotcom.net
Sources:https://news.gallup.com/poll/246134/uninsured-rate-rises-four-year-high.aspxhttps://www.vox.com/2019/1/23/18194228/trump-uninsured-rate-obamacare-medicaidhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/upshot/buying-short-term-health-insurance-what-to-know.htmlhttps://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/individual-insurance-market-performance-in-2017/https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/1867050/changes-mortality-after-massachusetts-health-care-reform-quasi-experimental-studyhttps://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_05.pdfCat Tax
Hey, lots of bra:in for one today?/THINK/ again :Phttps://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/kzde53/your-brain-is-paying-attention-while-youre-sleeping?utm_source=reddit.com
Dan begins to discuss his favorite “has been” from the age of cable television. The discovery channel.Sources“Discovery Channel”, in Lyricshttps://genius.com/search?q=discovery%20channelKids these days don’t know what it’s like to do it like they do on the discovery channelhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/4a3xa7/there_is_a_whole_generation_who_will_hear/
Tom talks about the government shutdown, the beginning, middle, end and future. Tom also mentions he is going back to Massachusetts
Luke loudly laments the loss of his latest laptop. Well, okay, it was his desktop, but that would’ve killed the alliterative flow, you pedantic philistine >:(Oh, and he talks about gene editing and stuff.Sources:(Roughly; this one was a bit off-the-cuff… You know, computer troubles. We’ve been over this. Gosh.)https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-disk-partitioning-for-linux-and-windows-dual-booting/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46943593http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/spring04/warfare.cfmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_(mascot)
Dark roast coffee has been shown to decrease DNA damage compared to non-coffee drinkers, and time restricted fasting has been shown to be a means to decrease body weight & systolic blood pressure. Sources: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00394-018-1863-2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6004924/
Sources:https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46963971https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46954585https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/tech/huawei-cfo-arrested-canada/index.htmlhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-ireland-commission/no-brexit-deal-means-hard-irish-border-eu-says-idUSKCN1PG1GVhttps://www.engadget.com/2019/01/22/galaga-shark-fossil/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhKaNvwTC7wOther Important Links:https://www.podcastdotcom.net/https://twitter.com/WantToBePodcastmailto:gmail@podcastdotcom.net
Hey, what’re you eating? OR what is eating your intestinal lining??PICK ONEhttps://theconversation.com/amp/food-additives-and-chronic-disease-risk-what-role-do-emulsifiers-play-38492https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-36890-3