Episode 25 LIVE – Foundation Beyond Belief with Dale McGowan
By Dustin
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This is a live episode, you can find the video on YouTube and since we did the whole thing live on the Hangout on Air, All the editing I’ve done is clean up the audio and truncate the silence, otherwise it is live and unedited.
0:01:40 INTRO
0:02:38 INTERVIEW – Dale McGowan
Dale is editor and co-author of books including Parenting Beyond Belief, Raising Freethinkers, Voices of Unbelief, and Atheism For Dummies (2013). He presents workshops for nontheistic parents across the United States and was named 2008 Harvard Humanist of the Year. Dale created Foundation Beyond Belief in 2009 and launched the charitable giving program in 2010. He now serves as the Executive Director of Foundation Beyond Belief.
0:52:24 THIS DAY IN HISTORY – April 18
- 1775 – Revere and Dawes warn of British attack
- 1906 – The Great San Francisco Earthquake
- 1989 – Chinese students protest against government in Tiananmen Square
1:02:37 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
- Flat tire? There’s a bot for that.
- A fusion rocket?
- Peru’s glacier loss
- Jurassic Park 4’s dinosaurs won’t be very modern
- The Ocellated icefish has no hemoglobin
- The new bird flu
1:18:28 POLITICS/RELIGION
- North Carolina’s proposed state religion nixed by House Speaker
- International Pressure mounts for the release of Bangladeshi bloggers
- Egypt arrests satirist
- Malala Yousafzai is back in school
- Amina Tyler is threatened with stoning by the head of Tunisia’s “Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.” European group Femen launches a Topless Jihad in support. (NSFW)
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