Appreciate Your Mind

Appreciate Your Mind


Latest Episodes

Appreciate Your Mind - August 29, 2013
August 26, 2013

For this week's program I talk about why we have a hard time accepting science with detrimental examples that include denying climate change, anti-vaccination sentiments, beliefs about President Obama, etc.; denying that attention needs to be paid to thos

Appreciate Your Mind - August 12, 2013
August 12, 2013

For this week's program I talk about racial profiling, non-religious wedding officiants, prayers at government meetings, the Christian nation myth, humanist celebrants in the military; and more! I play music from Markella Hatziano, New York Dolls, and Fr

Appreciate Your Mind - Aug. 5, 2013
August 05, 2013

For this week's program I talk about several examples of bias, including racial profiling, college assistance being more available for the wealthy, and voter suppression efforts; the unfortunate cases where a single study is wrongly seen as overturning ma

Appreciate Your Mind - July 29, 2013
July 29, 2013

For this week's program I talk about the new AP study that confirms previous reports about the unfortunate economic conditions the vast majority of Americans find themselves, the recent news about a humanist chaplain for the military, a federal judge ruli

Appreciate Your Mind - July 22, 2013
July 22, 2013

For this week's program I talk about the lack of knowledge people have about the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the difficulties encountered by people who have discovered their religions are wrong, the move that seems to be global to arrest and

Appreciate Your Mind - July 15, 2013
July 15, 2013

For this week's program I talk about the persistent racism that continues to plague the country and has been brought to the forefront again following the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case, how happiness is easier when people work in communities togethe

Appreciate Your Mind - July 8, 2013
July 08, 2013

For this week's program I talk about the real dangers of dogmatic religion, including sickness and death from prayer-instead-of-medicine thinking, surveys that show non-religious people being pretty much the same as everyone else while still being vilifie

Appreciate Your Mind - July 1 2013
July 01, 2013

For this week's program I talk about recent Supreme Court decisions on marriage equality and voting rights that seem aimed at dividing the country and the Religious Right's reaction to recent decisions, ways we can make ourselves happier, the awful idea t

Appreciate Your Mind - June 24, 2013
June 24, 2013

For this week's program I talk about recent news having to do with an atheist told to get a letter from a church as part of her citizenship application, the collapse of a major "gay to straight" Christian organization, the mistaken view of nontheists by p

Appreciate Your Mind - June 17, 2013
June 17, 2013

***Sound quality note: Due to a recording device failure, at just after the 43 minute mark I had to switch to a backup recording which is reduced in quality. Sorry for that.*** For this week's program I talk about examples of blasphemy as contrasted to cl