Appreciate Your Mind
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Appreciate Your Mind - August 29, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
***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