Virtually Speaking

The Exploratorium’s Senior Staff Scientist, physicist Paul Doherty shares the latest news about NASA’s Mars Curiosity mission from the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco – and joins NBCNews’ Alan Boyle in a year-end, year-ahead survey of the top science topics. Follow @b0yle

Links:

http://www.exo.net/~pauld/

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/05/15705457-mars-hype-teaches-science-lessons?lite

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

Joan McCarter and Marcy Wheeler discuss the issues of the week.  Culture of Truth offers his satirical view of the Sunday morning talk shows.

Follow @Emptywheel @JoanMcCarter @Bobblespeak

Links: http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Joan%20McCarter

http://sideshow.me.uk/

http://www.emptywheel.net/

http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2012/12/meet-press-december-2-2012.html

The VS Media Panel: Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, Dave Dayen, Dave Johnson, Dave Waldman, Digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler and Stuart Zechman.

Ian and Jay discuss Ian's Nov 26 post, Default to Kindness, and climate change: the actual existential threat to the industrialized world; in the context of Bill McKibben's July 19 Rolling Stone piece: Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

Follow @IWelsh @JayAckroyd

Links

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719

http://www.ianwelsh.net/default-to-kindness/

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719s

AmericaBlog on Climate change

RJ Eskow and Dave Johnson consider fiscal cliff scare talk, shock doctrine scripting, social security and medicare.

Richard Eskow: Consultant/writer at Campaign for America's Future (econ, social policy, health finance, tech); occasional musician @RJEskow

Dave Johnson: Writer, Seeing the Forest, Campaign for America's Future (economy, Labor, Social Security) @DCJohnson

Plus the weekly 'ridiculous moment' from Culture of Truth, drawn from http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2012/11/meet-press-november-18-2012.html

Links:

http://www.ourfuture.org/

http://wageclasswar.org/

David Cay Johnston is President of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), an education organization with 4,200 members. A 13-year veteran of The New York Times, David won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for enterprise reporting that uncovered loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code. He wrote the best selling tax books Perfectly Legal, which won an IRE medal, and Free Lunch.

With Jay Ackroyd, David dicusses his latest book, The Fine Print:How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind

Follow @DavidCayJ @JayAckroyd

Read http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/

David Cay Johnston is President of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), an education organization with 4,200 members. A 13-year veteran of The New York Times, David won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for enterprise reporting that uncovered loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code. He wrote the best selling tax books Perfectly Legal, which won an IRE medal, and Free Lunch.

With Jay Ackroyd, David dicusses his latest book, The Fine Print:How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind

Follow @DavidCayJ @JayAckroyd

Read http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/

Sam Wang - who has been adding science to electoral predictions since 2004 - and Jay discuss why the "professional pundts" were all over the electoral map while Sam and his fellow poll aggregators were on the nose. Follow @SamWangPhD @Jayackroyd

The Princeton Election Consortium provides informed analysis of US national elections by members of the Princeton academic community.

http://election.princeton.edu/

http://xkcd.com/1131/

Sam et al in the news: http://bit.ly/SGjyE0

Sam Wang - who has been adding science to electoral predictions since 2004 - and Jay discuss why the "professional pundts" were all over the electoral map while Sam and his fellow poll aggregators were on the nose. Follow @SamWangPhD @Jayackroyd

The Princeton Election Consortium provides informed analysis of US national elections by members of the Princeton academic community.

http://election.princeton.edu/

http://xkcd.com/1131/

Sam et al in the news: http://bit.ly/SGjyE0

Cliff Schecter & David Waldman talk politics with Jay Ackroyd.

Follow @CliffSchecter @KagroX

Also featuring Culture of Truth's satire of the Most Ridiculous Thing That Happened This Sunday on the Sunday morning gasbag programs.

Links

http://libertasllc.com/

http://www.congressmatters.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cliff-schecter/

http://www.dailykos.com/user/David%20Waldman

Jay talks with June Carbone, the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at University of Missouri Kansas City .

  Professor Carbone writes extensively about the legal issues surrounding marriage, divorce and family obligations, especially within the context of the recent revolutions in biotechnology.     They first talked about  Red Families v. Blue Families,  co-authored with Naomi Cahn, earlier this year: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2012/03/16/june-carbone-virtually-speaking-w-jay-ackroyd   Links: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=165168