Category Archives: Links

Radio Show Links 1-29-15

Zebras:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0145679Visual Study with great slides

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/5/736

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140401/ncomms4535/full/ncomms4535.html

http://news.discovery.com/animals/zebra-stripes-120209.htm

http://www.sciencealert.com/zebra-stripes-aren-t-used-for-camouflage-or-mate-selection-study-finds

https://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2014/apr/02/why-do-zebras-have-stripes-scientists-have-the-answer

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=309&itemID=F937.2&viewtype=text

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton#Heredity_and_eugenics

Zika

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/01/27/npr-zika-outbreak-unlikely-united-states

http://www.nature.com/news/brazil-s-surge-in-small-headed-babies-questioned-by-report-1.19259

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1286457916000083

http://www.virology.ws/2016/01/28/zika-virus/

Flint-Lead

http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=603006017073088016126081095114120087031020067072039011023111028119127023120086098064002029052121121116050103028123020097088127053017086038086010082087023074094121027055071024115067109088102016099099122090026077094022109024004074030065089110031071119&EXT=pdf

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline

Flat Earth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCA8HofWsxcFlat Earth Rap

https://soundcloud.com/drtyson/flat-to-factResponse

https://youtu.be/XHBZkek8OSUTyson on Nightly Show (Mic Drop)

https://cut2thetruth.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/why-we-know-the-earth-is-round-flat-earthers-debunked-exploring-science-ep-ii/

Links for 1/22/16

Malheur Bird Sanctuary

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/cliven-bundy-homestead-act-history

http://www.mtexpress.com/opinion/editorials/west-s-myth-needs-to-die/article_8686a5aa-b574-11e5-a7eb-178cd7d6684e.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/upshot/why-the-government-owns-so-much-land-in-the-west.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/opinion/in-oregon-myth-mixes-with-anger.html

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/01/19/oregon-militia-nuts-hold-paiute-history-artifacts-hostage-163116

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/19/3740829/ursula-k-le-guin-oregon-lte/

Railroad

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=32

http://www.nytimes.com/1861/01/01/news/let-the-pacific-railroad-bill-pass.html 

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=012/llsl012.db&recNum=520  (Text of Bill)

https://books.google.com/books?id=TZp_GT7PscIC&pg=PA369&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Hoover Dam

http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/history/essays/workforc.html

Paiute

http://www.nps.gov/archeology/tools/Laws/arpa.htm

https://redpowermedia.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/bundy-militia-rummage-through-native-american-artifacts-video/

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/01/19/oregon-militia-nuts-hold-paiute-history-artifacts-hostage-163116

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/16/oregon-militias-behavior-increasingly-brazen-as-public-property-destroyed

Nessie Nonsense

http://gizmodo.com/undiscovered-crevice-at-the-bottom-of-loch-ness-is-big-1754479907

Planet X/#9

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/01/21/evidence_found_of_a_possible_planet_in_the_outer_solar_system.html

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/feature-astronomers-say-neptune-sized-planet-lurks-unseen-solar-system?utm_source=sciencemagazine&utm_medium=facebook-text&utm_campaign=planetx-1989

Links for Radio Show 1-15-16

Powerball:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/06/news/powerball-odds/

http://factually.gizmodo.com/powerball-math-1-3-billion-divided-by-300-million-is-1752269297

http://gawker.com/5897479/you-are-not-going-to-win-the-lottery-you-fool(substitute Powerball wherever you see MegaMillons!)

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/01/11/3737974/powerball-lotteries/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/what-percentage-of-state-lottery-money-goes-to-the-state/

http://www.masslottery.com/lib/downloads/MSLCInfoPack2015.pdf

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bdm.588/pdf

Bronze Age Discovery

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-archaeology-bronzeage-idUKKCN0UQ0VY20160112

http://www.mustfarm.com/progress/site-diary-12-discovering-our-first-house/

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bronze-age-stilt-houses-unearthed-in-east-anglian-fens

http://gizmodo.com/sunken-bronze-age-settlement-is-the-pompeii-of-britai-1752480580

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/britains-pompeii-found-at-bronze-age-settlement-160112.htm

Lynx

http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2016/01/11/court-orders-idaho-to-stop-illegal-trapping-of-protected-lynx/

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/jan/12/judge-idahos-trapping-rules-put-lynx-at-risk/(Really nice picture of a Lynx here)

Manatees

http://wtvr.com/2016/01/08/manatees-set-for-removal-from-u-s-endangered-species-list/

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/12/manatees-green-sea-turtles-endangered-species-status?CMP=share_btn_fb

http://www.livescience.com/53381-west-indian-manatees-rebound.html?cmpid=514627_20160115_57300886&adbid=10153192892996761&adbpl=fb&adbpr=30478646760

http://www.livescience.com/19639-manatee-hearing-boats.html

Elephants

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/apnewsbreak-ringling-circus-elephants-retire-36210689

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/160111-ringling-elephants-retire/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-11-16/taxidermist-stuffs-jumbo-kills-leopard-with-his-bare-hands-book-review

Carl Akeley bonus videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUkbYp1Gyrg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UQk7bKf9FI

Links for Radio Show 1/8/2016

Lumosity

http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2Fs13423-010-0034-0

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-015-0648-y

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7299/abs/nature09042.html

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/01/lumosity-pay-2-million-settle-ftc-deceptive-advertising-charges

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/xge/142/2/359/

Ötzi

Tattoos

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1296207415000023

http://anthropology.net/2009/07/21/otzi-icemans-tattoos-were-born-in-fire/

http://www.iceman.it/en/tattoos

H. Pylori

http://news.sciencemag.org/evolution/2016/01/iceman-had-tummy-bug?utm_source=newsfromscience&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=iceman-1799

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/351/6269/162

Melanoma

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/doctors-finally-decide-when-a-mole-is-benign-and-when-its-cancer/

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1502583

Clay

http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?org=NSF&cntn_id=137239&preview=false

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep19043

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-you-stop-flesh-eating-bacteria-apply-clay/

Mass Court Ruling

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/christian-couple-who-spank-kids-for-biblical-reasons-denied-right-to-adopt-by-mass-supreme-court/

http://www.telegram.com/article/20160104/NEWS/160109716

Link Dump for 1/1/16 Evidence Based Radio

Parasites:

http://www.livescience.com/53230-ant-caterpillar-parasite-relationship.html

http://www.thenextgenscientist.com/2015/12/09/discovering-a-new-caterpillar-ant-parasitic-plant-relationship/

http://www.livescience.com/53229-parasitic-plant-ant-caterpillar.html

Plutonium-238

http://www.livescience.com/53227-plutonium-238-created-for-space-fuel.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1223/Department-of-Energy-begins-making-plutonium-destined-for-deep-space

Mars Lander Scrubbed

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1223/Launch-postponed-as-key-component-on-NASA-s-next-Mars-rover-springs-leak

http://www.space.com/31448-nasa-mars-lander-insight-launch-delay.html

Musk Rocket

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1223/Will-SpaceX-s-reusable-rockets-take-humanity-to-Mars

New Moon Rock

http://www.sciencealert.com/china-s-rover-just-discovered-a-new-type-of-moon-rock

Giant Squid

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/12/28/Watch-Rare-footage-of-giant-squid-scooting-through-Japanese-harbor/3811451322499/

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1229/The-Kraken-appeareth-Giant-squid-filmed-on-Christmas-Eve

New Hydrothermal Vent

http://www.livescience.com/53212-new-hydrothermal-vent-forms-ghostly-chimneys.html

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/oes/news/2015/12/new-kind-of-hydrothermal-vent.page

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151222/ncomms10150/full/ncomms10150.html

New Nanoscale Viewing Microscope

http://news.mit.edu/2015/new-microscope-real-time-videos-nanoscale-1214