On July 26, 2010 at 2pm GMT+8, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III will deliver his first SONA (State of the Nation Address). Yahoo! Southeast Asia will provide a live video stream of the SONA, in partnership with broadcast network TV5, MediaQuest and FutureGen.

This will be made available on the Purple Thumb site of Yahoo! Philippines, together with a live blog that will give up-the-minute updates and allow readers from all over the world to post their comments.

Just as in the Purple Thumb coverage of the first automated elections in the Philippines, bloggers and citizen journalists can take part in Yahoo!’s social media coverage by using the hashtag #PurpleThumb together with their election-related tweets. These #PurpleThumb Twitter updates will be automatically posted on the live blog, where they can be read by the millions of readers who visit the Yahoo! Philippines site.

Link to P-Noy’s first SONA : ph.promo.yahoo.com/purple-thumb/first100days

On June 30, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III will not only take his oath as the highest official in the land, but will also make history as the first Philippine president whose inauguration will be livestreamed on the Internet.

Yahoo! Southeast Asia will provide a live video stream of the Aquino inauguration, in partnership with broadcast network TV5, MediaQuest and FutureGen.

This will be made available on the Purple Thumb election site of Yahoo! Philippines, together with a live blog that will give up-the-minute updates and allow readers from all over the world to post their comments.

Just as in the Purple Thumb coverage of the first automated elections in the Philippines, bloggers and citizen journalists can take part in Yahoo!’s social media coverage by using the hashtag #PurpleThumb together with their election-related tweets. These #PurpleThumb Twitter updates will be automatically posted on the live blog, where they can be read by the millions of readers who visit the Yahoo! Philippines site.

More info: ph.yfittopostblog.com/2010/06/29/live-video-stream-of-aquino-inauguration-on-june-30/

Justin This show is brought to you by you, the listener, and other people like you who listen. We couldn’t do this show if it wasn’t for you listening because then we’d just be talking to ourselves. So thank you.

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

There are, by my own account, only two ways of being in the world: as though it is the first day or as if it is the last. If it is the last day, then what we do now has little consequence for tomorrow never comes. Our debt is reasonable, we can spend well beyond our means; for tomorrow never comes. Our use of natural resources does not need to be sustained beyond today for tomorrow never comes.

The climate of the earth, pfft! If it’s suitable today is all that you’re concerned with; for tomorrow never comes. And there’s little reason to learn that which will only be useful tomorrow for tomorrow never comes. But if you see this day as the first day, that can have unreasonable consequence.

Natural resources are precious commodity to be managed and sustainably watched over, not squandered. And the environment is something worth stewarding. And any knowledge gained is useful. However intangible, its benefit is in the now.

And while being a sustainably squandered commodity – much like the following hour of programming – does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors; be it the first day or the last, the choice is always yours: to be at the beginning of your life or near the end.

To give you a little perspective today, we’ll let you in on a few things that started many yesterdays ago and will continue to develop over many tomorrows. Here on This Week in Science coming up next.
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Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! In all the world, there is perhaps no greater display of what is possible under the definition of life than that which we can find beneath the surface of the sea. Underneath the waves, there’s an atmosphere so dense with life, blanketed in a nutrient rich environment that openly thrives upon itself.

The oceans are not only alive, they’re abundantly so. Making the air breathing world above look deserted by comparison as though land above the surface air were just so much sun bleached rock and dried sand.

For all the wonder that can come from gazing up at the stars, for all the excitement in the study of varied creatures that crawl upon the surface of the earth, there is even more to see and beneath the frothing wave and choppy sea.

Life in abundance variation across several oceans, enough life forms in fact to populate the solar system a galaxy or perhaps even multiple galaxies complete with diverse ecosystems redundant in survival solutions and resplendent in evolutionary potential, all here quietly brewing in a potent primordial stew below 70% of our planet’s surface.

And while brewing with frothy potential, much like the following hour of programming, does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors, for species as curious as ours, as interested in life among the stars as we are, we are fortunate to have such an irrefutably fantastic proximity to life in space situated on a perfect platform from which to launch our exploration of this life without ever having to traverse the cold radiation filled expanses between suitable solar systems in search of such a place.

My goodness. And with galactic magnitudes of life forms abounding all around us, while reflecting upon our good fortune, we take a moment now to tune in to what else we are lucky enough to be researching into instead of stuck out searching for, here on This Week In Science, coming up next. This is the one.
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What we say has meaning even if that meaning is lost on others. When other people speak, it has meaning to us even if it is not what they intended to convey.

Whether our words are chosen wisely or allowed to escape before being carefully thought through, the impact of those words will depend more on who is hearing them than on what we have said. Such is the case even now as I say these words.

For whatever point I intended by saying them in the beginning has already left my ability to control and has been made irrelevant by the fact that you are interpreting what I’m saying and associating meanings that I couldn’t possibly have imagined let alone intended.

Or perhaps you understand exactly what I intended to say and have thought these thoughts to yourself making what I’m saying now just a reminder of your own thoughts which are ultimately what I’m talking about even though I have no idea what those thoughts may be.

And while a thought-filled confusion much like this disclaimer in the following hour of programming do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California Davis, KDVS or its sponsors, one thing should remain perfectly clear. What that one thing is, we will surely not agree upon. So instead, we will drop the subject all together and instead turn our attentions to This Week in Science, coming up next.

Good morning, Kirsten!
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It is written that Socrates had no use for the written word. Newton did all those calculations without the aid of the calculator. Michael Faraday unified electricity and magnetism without computer modeling. Einstein discovered the Theory of Relativity long before anyone thought of googling space time.

All these great minds were stripped of the information technology we enjoy today and yet, they managed great feats of informational mental gymnastics. And while comparing the intellect today with that of the past, maybe a bit of downer in light of our huge advantages, the comparison – much like the following hour of our programming – does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of University of California at Davis KDVS, or its sponsors.

Still we can imagine that if through some trick of time, by some outrunning of the laws of physics in some flipped switch of possibility, even greater accomplishments may have been possible if the great minds of history could spend just one hour a week listening to This Week in Science coming up next.

Good morning Kirsten.
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Without the darkness, there can be no light. Without light, there is no energy, no quark. Without the quark, there can be no atom. Without the atom, there would be no matter and no mass, no gravity. Without gravity, there’d be no way to get down with our bad selves.

And while getting quarky within the dark – much like the following hour of our programming does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors – the more you look, the more it becomes clear.

The universe is an intricate, complicated place where even the most basic components are far from intuitive to our human perspective. Without this unintuitive complication, we would not be here. Without science, we wouldn’t know where here is or even where or when here is. And so, we couldn’t be possibly saying, This Week in Science, coming up next.

Good morning, Kirsten!
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