Episode 150 – News for June 9, 2016

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – June 9
* 1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to “all worthy men”, ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men

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* Idaho father forced his 14 year old daughter to marry her rapist | Via Raw Story
* Utah dad punched for taking his daughter to the bathroom
* Canadian parents on trial for murder for their 37 lb, 15 year old, diabetic child’s death
* Judge sentences Catholic man to attend Baptist Church services
* Brewster County, Texas settles with FFRF over crosses
* Public swimming pool reinstates segregated hours

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* New asteroid mining company
* The White House’s microbiome initiative | Wired
* The dragon eggs are hatching

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Episode 149 – Chatting with Fellow Podcasters

In this week’s episode we are joined by Jesse Dollemore from the I Doubt It with Dollemore, Shujin Tribble from Holy Crap the Vlogcast, and Al Laiman from Inciting Incident.

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Episode 148 – News for May 26, 2016

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – May 26
* 1857 – Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners
* 1948 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force

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* Cardinal said trans people are killing God | Via Friendly Atheist
* US House passes bill to protect atheists, ritualistic slaughter, and circumcision
* Adventist Church’s Pacific Union College is allegedly firing a professor for inviting Ryan Bell to speak at the campus | Via Friendly Atheist

WORLD NEWS
* Mexican President is calling for marriage equality
* Iran is cracking down on women not wearing head scarves
* Pakistani trans activist shot and hospital couldn’t figure out what ward to put her in

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* A “Babel Fish” like product has been announced
* Scientists figure out a way that the the pre-life ice ball earth may have warmed

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Episode 147 – Dispatches From the Culture Wars with Ed Brayton

We are joined by Ed Brayton of the Dispatches From the Culture Wars blog and have a good time discussing his background, why atheism isn’t enough, wine, constitutional law, and more!

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Episode 146 – News for May 12, 2016

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – May 12
* 1820 – Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse, social reformer, and statistician was born
* 1935 – Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling

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DOMESTIC NEWS
* North Carolina sues over Justice Department complaint while the Justice Department sues as well
* Roy Moore has been suspended
* Mississippi mayor thought prayer would make the potholes go away

INTERNATIONAL NEWS
* Saudi girls demand PE class
* Pakistani girl killed in honor killing
* Couple appealing discrimination ruling over cake in Northern Ireland

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* NOAA is exploring the Mariana Trench | Okeanos Live Feed
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Episode 145 – Secular Mental Health with Tom Meacham

In this week’s episode we talk about mental health again, this time with a psychiatrist, Dr. Tom Meacham. We talk about addiction, anxiety, depression, how atheists are mental health wise, and touch on quite a bit more.

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Episode 144 – News for April 28, 2016

DUSTING OFF THE DEGREE – The 144,000

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – April 28
* 1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans
*1984 – Dustin was born
* 1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident
* 1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia
* 1996 – Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
* Researchers made a battery that lasts 400 times longer
* Reef discovered at the mouth of the Amazon

POLITICS AND RELIGION
* Target getting boycotted over transgender friendly policy
* Colorado Supreme Court refuses to take up cake case
* It’s a eucharistic miracle!
* Turkey’s parliament speaker wants an Islamic constitution
* Priest convicted of raping children has been reassigned
* Northern Idaho man sues Idaho DOT employee over insurance god | Via Raw Story
* Two Zambians burned alive in witch hunt

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Episode 143 – The Satanic Temple of Seattle with Lilith Starr

We are joined by the head of the Seattle Chapter of The Satanic Temple and author of The Happy Satanist, Lilith Starr. We talk about how satanism changed her life, her establishing of the Seattle Chapter of The Satanic Temple, and a bit about her depression and physical disabilities.

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Episode 142 – News Live from Tacoma

DUSTING OFF THE DEGREE – Mary

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – April 14
* 1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established
* 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary
* 1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs
* 1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford’s Theatre
* 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg
* 2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
* Ribose and related sugars from uv irradiation of interstellar ice pieces created the base for RNA, ribose sugar!
* Newton dabbled in alchemy, searching for the recipe for the Philosopher’s Stone. Recently Chemical Heritage Foundation acquired his recipe for sophick mercury, a key ingredient or the Stone.
* Yeast infection caused a blockage of blood supply, so only four days after the surgery the uterus was removed.

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Gov Butch Otter has vetoed the Bible in schools bill
* Tennessee has passed a bill to make the Bible the official state book
* Mississippi passes “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from the Government” bill
* Mississippi Church Protection Act
* Bangladeshi secular activist hacked to death
* Canada closed its Office of Religious Freedom | Via Friendly Atheist

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Episode 141 – Hunting Chupacabra with Ben Radford

We are joined by scientific/skeptical paranormal investigator Ben Radford and discuss his background and skeptical investigations of the paranormal and go off about Mormons and Scientology.

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