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* Petition to remove Idaho’s child welfare faith healing exemptions

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0:09:01 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – July 24

* 1487 – City sacked due to foreign beer ban
* 1959 – Nixon and Khrushchev have a “kitchen debate”
* 1982 – “Eye Of The Tiger” from Rocky III tops the U.S. pop charts
* 2005 – Lance Armstrong wins seventh Tour de France

0:20:32 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

* Solar sails are on their way
* Voyager I hit by another solar tsunami
* Yellowstone roads melting
* Ohio Amish are getting vaccinated

0:33:05 POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Ted Cruz thinks Democrats are at war with Catholics
* Abstinence only Louisiana senate candidate will be a grandpa
* Colorado’s free contraceptives program results
* Iraqi Christians ordered to convert, pay up, or die
* Kentucky church knowingly hired a convicted sex offender for a pastor and guess what, he raped a 14 year old boy
* Study shows that religious children are more credulous

0:50:15 INTERVIEW – Teresa MacBain

1:53:44 FEEDBACK

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Recorded for release on 2014-07-24

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For the interview we are joined by David Silverman from American Atheists

CALL TO ACTION

* American Humanist Association to brief congress on need for humanist chaplains
* Secular Humanists of Everett homeless care kits

Vote Goddamnit!

INTRO

*Changing the format a bit

0:03:57 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – July 10

* 1925 – Scopes Monkey Trial
* 1962 – US Patent 3 point seatbelt
* 1985 – French Agents Sink Greenpeace Boat

0:15:04 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

* Off switch discovered for human consciousness
* Psychotropic drugs affect men and women differently
* Woman has nasal growth on back from stem cell treatment
* McCarthy and Shepherd fired from The View

0:24:57 POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Update – Rev Schaefer reinstated by Methodist Church
* Update – Meriam Ibrahim released

The Good in Recent US Jurisprudence:

* Anti-vaxers lose in court
* 9th Circuit rules that gays and lesbians require special protections

The Bad:

* Florida judge faces suspension for promoting ministry from the bench
* Greece comes home to roost

The Ugly:

* Hobby Lobby
* Hobby Lobby Hypocracy
* Wheaton College
* Senate Dems Challenge It
* Government Contractor hiring

0:49:38 INTERVIEW – David Silverman, President of American Atheists

1:50:54 FEEDBACK

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* @libsyn via Twitter
* Glen via email
* Graham via email

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY –

* 1807 – Lightning strikes in Luxembourg
* 1911 – Babe Didrikson born
* 1949 – U.S. begins Berlin Airlift
* 1975 – Sonny and Cher’s divorce becomes final
* 2003 – Former U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond dies

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

* Developing ethical robots
* Chimps gave us herpes
* UK bans teaching creationism in any publicly funded school
* GM Mosquitoes could wipe out malaria
* Leukemia drug surprisingly inhibits other cancers too
* Recreating the 1918 Spanish Flu

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Gay fathers in Texas denied being listed on their children’s birth certificates
* US’s largest Presbyterian denomination accepts gay marriage
* Pagan “church” denied permits once identified
* Atheism growing in Saudi Arabia
* Spain’s secular coronation
* Mars Hill want’s members to stay off the internet
* Mormons issue statement on the appropriateness of questions

INTERVIEW – Evan Bernstein from the Skeptics Guide to the Universe

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INTRO

* Feed changes
* Full archives in all feeds
* iTunes is/has updated
* RSS redirect one week after release

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – June 12

* 1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York
* 1963 – Medgar Evers assassinated
* 1975 – Indira Gandhi convicted of election fraud
* 1987 – Reagan challenges Gorbachev

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

* Plastic rocks in Hawaii
* Telporting data
* Evolution silences crickets
* Poll shows that 42% of Americans are creationists
* Regrowing teeth with lasers!
* CDC blames anti-vaxxers for 20 year high in measles cases

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Update – Beliefs are admissible in faith healing trial
* Court officiant refuses to marry atheists
* Navy rejects humanist chaplain application
* Texas County approves 10 Commandment monument

US – Religion

* Utah tax-shelter church loses appeal
* Woman takes sermon seriously, kills partner’s kid

INTERVIEW – Jaclyn Glen Youtube | Website | Facebook | Twitter

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – May 29

* 1886 – The Pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in The Atlanta Journal
* 1942 – Jews in Paris are forced to sew a yellow star on their coats
* 1953 – Hillary and Tenzing reach Everest summit
* 1979 – Woody Harrelson’s father is arrested for murder
* 2001 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

* The origin of flightless birds
* SC girl wins in state fossil battle!
* Acupuncture and sepsis?
* Gluten sensitivity may not be a thing at all | Study 1 | Study 2

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Marriage equality will destroy the republic
* Ted Cruz think’s the Dems are trying to repeal the 1st Ammendment
* USAF under pressure on proselytizing rules
* Details on Steve Green’s bible curriculum
* Sudan to execute Christian woman for apostasy
* The Lord compelled a California teacher to attack skateboarder

INTERVIEW – Lauren Studley, Vice President of Idaho Atheists

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INTRO

* Two new how-tos on the website
* Upcoming changes
* Tails is out of beta, be safe, please

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – May 15

*1756 – The Seven Years War begins
*1800 – President John Adams orders federal government to Washington, D.C.
*1937 – Madeleine Albright is born
*1972 – Governor George Wallace shot

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

*20% of Brits would have sex with a robot
*Scientists create new DNA base pairs
*Tree rings show how bad Western US droughts can be
*WHO warns about antibiotic resistance
*Study shows autism to be half genetic

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Sectarian Prayers okayed by the SCOTUS | Rawstory |
Americans United | Thomas going off the deepend
* Texas student suspended for refusing to stand for the pledge
* Florida atheist monument rejected for the second time
* NC Clergy sue for same-sex marriage due to religious liberty
* Saudi activist sentenced to 10 years and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam
* UN anti-torture group grills Vatican
* Nigerian Islamist group to sell nearly 300 girls into slavery
* King David’s citadel found!
* Black mass can’t mock Catholics according to Satanists

INTERVIEW – Miranda Celeste Hale

Miranda is a write, author, rhetoric teacher, speaker, and blogger. You may have seen her at TAM in 2012 or 2013, on The Imaginary Friends Show, or elsewhere around the web.

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*FDA’s new tobacco regulations | CASAA | FDA | Reuters | Dimishpre

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – May 1

* 1926 – Ford factory workers get 40-hour week
* 1933 – Humanist Manifesto I
* 1960 – American U-2 spy plane shot down
* 2003 – Record-breaking tornado wave begins
* 1776 – Illuminati

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
* Powdered Alcohol!
* Monkey Math
* Tweaking genes to restore hearing
* WHO speaks out against anti-vaxers

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Missouri GOP seeks to impeach governor over gay joint tax filings
* AFA thinks “Homosexual aggression” has banned Christians from seven jobs
* Crucifix for John Paul II kills a man ahead of canonisation
* Oregon couple doesn’t want jury to know about their faith-healing beliefs
* Warlock coerced kids into sex for magical healing
* Parent’s were cool with minister’s sexual exploitation of their children

INTERVIEW – DJ Grothe, President of the James Randi Educational Foundation
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Recorded for release on 2014-05-01