Episode 94 – News for May 14, 2015
By Dustin
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INTRO
- National Day of Reason in Boise
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– Video on our YouTube page - Greta Christina will be in Richland, WA June 16
- Stephanie Guttormson (e71) is getting sued by a faith healer she called out
THIS DAY IN HISTORY – May 14
*1796 – Jenner Tests Smallpox Vaccine
*1973 – Skylab Launched
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Andromeda’s far-reaching halo
- Newly discovered galaxy is farthest and one of the oldest known to humankind
- Chicken embryos created with dinosaur snouts
- Rubella eliminated from the Americas
POLITICS AND RELIGION
- Third atheist blogger this year butchered in Bangladesh
- Iran has banned “evil spiky hair” because of the devil
- Indonesian district prohibits unmarried men and women from sharing motorcycles
- Pew religious landscape survey shows Christianity in decline and the nones on the rise
- Poll shows more voters would support an LGBT than evangelical presidential candidate
- Supreme Court rejects appeal of New Jersey gay conversion ban
- Update: Cochran, GA to removed it’s Christian Flag
- Ben Carson is running!
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