EPISODE 295 - Cthulusaurus Rex

Well, that big Apple acquisition of Beats Audio we were talking about last week went through. Although, Apple used a $200-million off coupon code provided by Dre as an apology for leaking the news on YouTube after a few Heinekens. That’s just one of three music notes we want to tell you about. If you’re a fan of the musically arranged brown note known as dubstep you’ll be happy to know that the English language officially considers it a word now. That’s not to say folks consider it actual music though. Merriam-Webster decided to add it along with a number of other jewels from modern day nomenclature to their collegiate edition dictionary this year. And Macaulay Culkin is keeping busy with his Velvet Underground tribute band called Pizza Underground. They recently performed at the Dot to Dot Festival in Europe to a less than warm reception. In fact, it may have been quite cold as patrons threw their beers at the stage while jeering him and his bandmates. Then again, it was in the UK, they’re not as big on cold beer as we are in the US, so maybe it was warm after all. Our BIG story this week involves some BIG things… dinosaurs! It seemed like last week there was a flood of rumors, leaks and photos straight from the set of JURASSIC WORLD. Even Colin Treverrow, the film’s director twatted a picture of a patch on one of the costumes from the flick. While showing folks the costume department’s embroidery work as a tease is okay with Treverrow, leaking the plot of the film is not. He was rather annoyed that the Interweb was given story details of of his movie. There’s too much to write out here, so tune in to the show to find out more. We didn’t leak the info, but we’ll gladly pass it along. Some of what we talk about you might consider a ‘spoiler’ but there’s nothing super specific, just a general description of the movie’s overall plot. Have you ever wanted to try on Geordi La Forge’s visor from STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION? If so, it’ll only cost you $10,000. But you also get to have dinner and take pictures with LeVar Burton who played the character. The visor dinner is just one of many rewards being offered on a Kickstarter campaign aimed at bringing back READING RAINBOW. Not the TV show as seen on PBS, but rather a new digital, multiscreen platform featuring countless children’s books, video field trips, educational games and more. This new READING RAINBOW service would be offered to schools everywhere. And it’d be free to schools facing financial troubles. Kids aren’t watching TV anymore. They’re on their phones and iPads and that’s where LeVar and his team want to interact with them and get them all reading! They raised a million bucks, their goal, in just a single day. So now they’re shooting for $5-million. Don’t worry, you don’t have to toss in $10K. You can contribute as little as $5. Now for something truly Who Asked You?… from children’s reading programs to pornography we go with a new study conducted in Germany. Apparently, men who watch a lot of porn have decreased brain mass when in comes to motivation and rewards. Doing too much of something can alter the brain’s functionality and that includes looking at naughty pictures and videos. The study included scanning the brains of 46 men who admitted to looking at a lot of pornography. And the findings also revealed that the prefrontal cortex area responsible for decision making and behavior worsened with increased porn use. So to recap, those looking at a lot of smut are unmotivated, behave poorly and make terrible decisions. I need to cut back then. People who live in remote wilderness or small rural areas gotta be tough as nails because medical attention could be very far away. Case in point, the town of Anchor Point, Alaska. There we find a man who accidentally shot himself in the head. Instead of going to the hospital as his girlfriend suggested, he treated the wound with an antibiotic ointment and went about his business. It was only a few days later he succumbed to symptoms of being shot in the head and was forced to seek that medical attention. I think it’s important we keep that guy and those like him away from the Wilshire Gun Range in Oklahoma. It’s set to be the first shooting range in the state to legally serve alcohol onsite. It still needs approval from the state. The owner says anyone who buys a drink will have their license flagged and they won’t be aloud in the gun range area for the entire day. Nevertheless, this doesn’t sound like a good idea and seems unnecessary. Just drink when you get home from an afternoon of shootin’. That way you won’t have a drunken accident and won’t find yourself rubbing Neosporin on a bullet wound. And if you do decide to throw back a few at the gun range, for Christ sake, stop watching so much porn! Show Links: Follow Awesome Astronomy on Twitter Merriam-Webster Dot to Dot Festival IMDb: Jurassic World SciFied.com: Jurassic World Movie The Verge: ‘Jurassic World’ director confirms leaked story details Kickstarter: Bring READING RAINBOW Back for Every Child, Everywhere Reuters: Porn may be messing with your head KOKH-TV Fox 25: Wilshire Gun Range gets liquor license approval