Virtually Speaking

Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss the present and future of liberalism in a centrist America....

Stirling Newberry, Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss oil, auserity, the pre-history of agriculture, resource use, human nature and  the long term prospects of America, and humanity, in an unegalitarian world hoovering up resources at an unsustainable pace.

How do the US presidential candidates view science and technology issues? Why might politically undeclared scientists join the GOP? 

MSNBC’s Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with ScienceDebate.org'sShawn Lawrence Otto, author of Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America.  VS Science is produced in cooperation with MICA.Follow @ShawnOtto @B0yle

Links

http://shawnotto.com/

http://cosmiclog.com/

http://www.sciencedebate.org/

Marcy and Jay take the test, live, and discuss the contents of the  recently released "How Thick is Your Bubble" quiz from AEI and Charles Murray.

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=how-thick-is-your-bubble

Take it yourself!

digbyandStuart Zechman discuss developments of the week, highlighting what’s been neglected or misrepresented on the Sunday morning broadcasts, drawing from their work of the prior week and the wickedly funny Bobblespeak Translations. Featuring CoT’s the ‘Most Ridiculous Moment’ from the Sunday morning talk shows. Follow @digby56 @bobblespeak @Stuart_Zechman.

Stuart Zechman anf Jay Ackroyd discuss copyright, freedom of expression and SOPA in the context of Disney's release of a tshirt featuring the image of Mickey Mouse embedded in the sonic image on the cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures.

Back briefly from covering the presidential primary campaign, Olivier Knox (@OKnox) of the AFP updates us on the GOP and on Nibbles 6th birthday.

MIT's Tom Levenson - award winning documentary filmmaker, author and Director of the talks with Alan Lightman - novelist, essayist, theoretical physicist, and  Adjunct Professor of Humanities at MIT - about the just released Mr. g: A Novel About the Creation (as told by God). Along the way, they talk about questions best addressed by science and questions best addressed by religion... and about the nature of writing.

Dave Johnson (Seeing the Forest, Campaign for America's Future) hosts Barry Kendall, recently returned from DC , having organized a second meeting with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. We'll learn more .... Follow @DCJohnson

Joan McCarter – Senior Policy Editor for Daily Kos – joins Jay to discuss GOP insanity and Dem inability to exploit the insanity; SOPA, copyright and patent law; CoT's most ridiculous moment from this morning's talking heads; and contraception. Follow @JoanMcCarter @bobblespeak @JayAckroyd.