Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about ravens, chromosomes, the Cumbrian coast, the Congo rainforest, Boko Haram, the Fotokite, the Keystone XL pipeline, net neutrality, drug laws, affirmative action, apartheid, the American middle class, and urinating on the Alamo.

Mike, Nathan, and Mahler mull roadside bombs, Syrian droughts, the PA, badgers, Heartbleed, regenerating a living organ, Russian moves in Ukraine, Comcast Time Warner, the pay gap, racial profiling, mental illness prisons, and wrongful convictions.

Nathan, Mike, and Mahler discuss modified yeast chromosomes, gene-editing, the Arctic soil, bat soup, Stephen Kim, Cuban Twitter, the USS Zumwalt, the US Supreme Court, abortion, Caterpillar, Robert Richards IV, and Tony the Tiger.

Mike, Nathan, and Mahler talk about Pussy Riot, North Korean Nazis, Beijing, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, homophobia, euthanasia, Beluga meat, Keystone XL, the global press, Duke Energy, Scott Walker, nuclear power, and presidential golf.