USSC rules against GPS trackers: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/us/police-use-of-gps-is-ruled-unconstitutional.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

EPA to supply drinking water to PA town: http://www.propublica.org/article/years-after-evidence-of-fracking-contamination-epa-to-supply-drinking-water

PA Governer slashes fracking research: https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/01/18/changing-priorities-science-funding-slashed-under-corbett-administration/

Obama’s new rule on contraception coverage: http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/21/obama-administration-religious-employers-must-pay-for-the-pill/?xid=rss-topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29

NE bill to thwart municipal protections for gays: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/01/19/406999/nebraska-senator-seeks-to-ban-al\

l-municipal-lgbt-protections/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews&mobile=wp

FOI request for backers of anti-global warming think tank: http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/23/climate-sceptic-lawson-thinktank-funding?cat=environment&type=article

Remembering History: Benjamin Franklin’s Birthday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

The Research Works Act:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3699:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/16/academic-publishers-enemies-scienc\

e?CMP=twt_fd

UK schools teaching intelligent design lose funding:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/15/free-schools-creationism-intelligent-design

Congress backpedals on SOPA

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/under-voter-pressure-members-of-\

congress-backpedal-on-sopa.ars

Hosannah Tabor Church V EEOC

Hosanna-Tabor Church v. EEOC

Episode #38

Remembering History: 

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/january-11/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ryan

Shout out to Tim Farley:

http://www.skepticality.com/

Wakefield sues BMJ: 

http://m.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/05/andrew-wakefield-sues-bmj-mmr?cat=society&type=article

Episode 39 - January 11 - Shownotes

Corporate Personhood:

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/18/372361/rep-deutch-introduces-occupied-constitutional-amendment-to-ban-corporate-money-in-politics/?mobile=nc

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CD8QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2Fstory%2F153185%2F&ei=m1sKT-nLLsnyggf937SmDg&usg=AFQjCNEVGCuLXuoASzhIoypCTa4gH_w1nQ&sig2=bUnMgCD89mbB0UZDyGpdVw

Tax deduction for space burials: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-space-burial-20111209,0,993488.story

Biology of Politics: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239995.php

Assisted Suicide: http://m.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/05/assisted-suicide-should-be-legal?cat=society&type=article

Episode 37 - January 4 - Shownotes

Remembering History: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-nixon-refuses-to-hand-over-tapes

Church gets special protection: http://atheism.about.com/b/2011/03/19/indiana-churches-get-special-legal-protections.htm

Nevada Fetal Personhood initiative: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/19/nevada-fetal-personhood_n_1159082.html

More on fracking: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/world/south-african-farmers-see-threat-from-fracking.html?_r=1&ref=science

European Court Stem Cell Decision: http://www.nature.com/news/german-science-organizations-slam-european-court-over-stem-cell-ruling-1.9606

Recorded January 2, 2012 in Des Moines, IA.