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

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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 Gore concedes the presidency
• 2003 – Saddam Hussein captured

0:24:52 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• Robots are taking the jobs of trained dolphins
• Evidence of ice on Mercury’s north pole
• Duke’s invisibility cloak

0:31:44 POLITICS/CULTURE/RELIGION

• The death of Savita Halappanavar
  • Complaint being filed with the European court of human rights
  • Bishops issue complete BS statement
• The GOP blocks ratification of the UN disability treaty
• The Supreme Court to take Prop 8 and DOMA cases
• Bill O’Rielly’s war on Christmas
  • O’Rielly with Silverman 11/28/12
  • Father Jonathan Morris corrects O’Rielly 12/03/12

0:50:19 MUSIC – Apocalyptic Love Song by Shelley Segal (Used by permission)

0:53:20 Plug for the Northwest Freethought Alliance Conference April 5-7, 2013

0:54:14 INTERVIEW – Kylie Sturgess of Token Skeptic

Kylie Sturgess is the host of the Token Skeptic podcast, blogs at Token Skeptic on Freethought Blogs and regularly writes editorials for numerous publications and CSICOP’s Curiouser and Curiouser online column. She was the co-host for the Global Atheist Convention in 2010 and 2012. An award-winning Philosophy teacher, Kylie has lectured on teaching critical thinking and anomalistic beliefs worldwide. In 2011 she was presented with the Secular Student Alliance Best Individual Activist Award for her activism independent of a university student group and was the Australian coordinator of the 2011 10:23 Campaign. In addition, Kylie is a member of the James Randi Educational Foundation Education Advisory Panel.

1:59:06 BLOOPERS

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