SCIENCE – ASTRONOMY: “Welcome to Jupiter!” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮

Dr. Leroy Chiao PhD, Former NASA Astronaut & International Space Station Commander joins Thom. Earlier today – at 3:18 Greenwich Mean Time – NASAs “Juno” spacecraft successfully reached Jupiter and entered the gas giants orbit. Scott Bolton – principle investigator for the Juno mission described his relief when orbit was achieved – telling The Guardian that “There’s a mixture of tension and anxiety because this is such a critical manoeuvre … The rocket motor has to burn at the right time, in the right direction, for just the right amount of time.” It took the spaceship 5 years to make the 1.8 billion mile trip from Earth to Jupiter and The Juno probe is equipped with 29 sensors and 9 instruments that will study the planet for the next 20 months. The probe will be making a map of the planet before its instruments finally fail and the probe falls to Jupiter’s surface.

SCIENCE – ASTRONOMY: “Journey to Jupiter: NASA’s Juno Probe Enters Jupiter’s Orbit” / RT America / Marina Portnaya, and Simone Del Rosario ☮

After a five-year journey, NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft has successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit. The craft has already sent back some stunning photos of our solar system’s largest planet.

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY – ETHNOCENTRISM: “Americans Unwilling to Marry Outside Their Politics” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, and Ana Kasparian ☮

A very low percentage of Americans are married to spouses that have opposing political views from then. The number of interracial couples may soon exceed those with differing politics. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“Would you believe us if we said you’re about as likely to marry someone of a different race as you are someone from the other political party?

Buried inside a new Pew Research Center survey on political polarization is this nugget: Americans say they are overwhelmingly married to people with whom they agree politically. In fact, just 9 percent of Republicans and 8 percent of Democrats say their spouse or partner is a member of the other major political party.

By contrast, Pew estimated in 2015 that 6.3 percent of Americans in 2013 were married to a spouse of a different race. But that number is climbing. It was less than 1 percent in 1970, but about 1 in 8 marriages in 2013 (12 percent) were interracial.

Bipartisan marriages still far outnumber gay marriages — another fast-increasing kind of marriage, thanks to its nationwide legalization in 2015. Gallup data suggests about 1 million American adults are married to a spouse of the same gender; but that’s still less than half a percentage point of the entire U.S. adult population.”

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY – ETHNOCENTRISM: “Brexit Fallout: Why UK Should Embrace Diversity” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, and Ana Kasparian ☮

The Brexit vote has led to a rise in open racism in the UK. But does nativism, and anti-immigration policies really benefit a country?

PHILOSOPHY – CRITICAL THINKING: “Fallacies: Formal, and Informal Fallacies” / Wireless Philosophy / Paul Henne (Duke University) ☮

In this Wireless Philosophy video, Paul Henne (Duke University) describes the distinction between formal and informal fallacies. This distinction is useful for understanding the fallacies in Wi-Phi’s Critical Thinking section.

SCOTUS AND THE REVOLVING DOOR: “How the Most Corrupt Judges Rise to the Supreme Court” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, and John Iadarola ☮

Why are the Supreme Court justices so pro-corporate on everything? They were appointed because of this.