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Episode 16 – Teaching Critical Thinking with the Token Skeptic’s Kylie Sturgess

0:00:25 INTRODUCTION 0:01:40 FEEDBACK WWII and related stuff How to deal with theistic family members 0:15:21 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – December 13 1577 – Francis Drake leaves England to explore and plunder 1915 – Mystery writer Ross Macdonald is born – Mother asks “WHO DUNNIT?” 2000 – Texas seven prison break 2000 – Al …

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Epsidoe 16 live

We will be starting our live recording of the first part of Episode 16 (before the interview) here in just a few minutes.

Episode 16 (first part) will be recorded live on Saturday

On Saturday 12/08/12 at approximately 2:00 pm MST we will be recording the first part of Episode 16 live via Google Hangouts on Air. We’ll actually both be recording ourselves locally, but it would be really messed up if we were only talking to ourselves, not each other…. Anyway, check back here on Saturday, December …

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Episode 15 – Medicine, Vaccines, and the Land Down Under with Dr. Rachael Dunlop

0:00:25 INTRO Clarification on Mormon underwear from Dustin’s contact Temple recommend questions and official rules on the Mormon underwear 0: 14:27 FEEDBACK – Our first hate mail 0:17:19 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – November 29 1929 – A Byrd flies over the South Pole 1942 – Coffee rationing begins in WW2 1963 – Warren Commission …

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Episode 14 – Living After Faith with Rich and Deanna Joy Lyons

0:0:25 INTRO 0:26:11 FEEDBACK – Dan S 0:38:58 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – November 15 1777 – Articles of Confederation adopted 1864 – Sherman’s March to the Sea 1977 – President Carter hosts Shaw Pahlavi of Iran 1984 – Baby Fae dies 1:13:09 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY Robot of the day – The farming robot swarm CRS-1 – …

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Episode 13 – Luck has nothing to do with it with Sam Mulvey

0:01:18 INTRO 0:16:11 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Octber 25th 1881 – Pablo Picasso born 1944 – First Japanese kamikaze attack of the war 1973 – Nixon vetoes war powers resolution 1980 – ACDC first Billboard top 40 hit 1983 – United States invades Grenada 0:40:12 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY New IBM microscope can view 100x smaller than …

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Watch the recording of Episode 13 live!

Recording is done and the episode is scheduled for release this coming Thursday.

Episode 12 – Disability and accessibility with Chris Hofstader

0:00:25 INTRO 0:08:13 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – October 11th 1925 – Elmore Leonard is born 1962 – Pope opens Vatican II 1975 – Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham 2002 – Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Prize 2008 – Blind driver breaks land-speed record 0:20:55 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY A possible alluvial fan in Mars’ Gale Crater Snakes on …

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Episode 11 – Balls to the Wall with JT Eberhard

0:00:25 INTRODUCTION 0:12:38 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – SEPTEMBER 27TH 1540 – Jesuit order established 1938 – Franklin Roosevelt appeals to Hitler for peace 1938 – Poland Surrenders 1940 – The Tripartite Pact is signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan 1959 – Khrushchev ends trip to the United States 0:27:55 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY Users: Apple iOS 6 …

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Episode 10 – The FDA takes on the Woo

0:25 INTRODUCTION A little more on e-cigs, thanks to Skeptics with a K. 6:34 THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1814 – Key pens Star-Spangled Banner 1993 – Israel-Palestine peace accord signed 1996 – Tupac Shakur dies 2004 – Oprah gives away nearly 300 new cars 27:26 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY Google Listen is dead Curiosity update DARPA’s new 28 …

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