Humanist Agenda: Recent Episodes
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The Humanist Agenda is a podcast recorded and produced by humanists in Canada. We discuss various topics from a humanist's perspective that may include philosophy, history, science and current events.
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1 in 5 people in the U.S. have a sexually transmitted infection (CDC)
The Estimated Direct Lifetime Medical Costs of Sexually Transmitted Infections Acquired (NIH)
The effects of the national HPV vaccination programme in England, UK (Lancet)
Money, Sex and Happiness (NBER)
Would you think about doing sex for money? Structure and agency in deciding to sell sex in Canada (SAGE)
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A short history of daylight saving time
History of Daylight Saving Time (DST)
Why Do We Change the Clocks, Anyway? (New York Times)
Losing Sleep Over Daylight Saving Time May Increase Workplace Injuries
Here’s why daylight saving time hurts workers’ productivity (CNBC)
Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem. (NIH)
How daylight saving time can make you less productive, less ethical and more prone to injury at work (CBC)
Five economic effects of daylight saving time (Quartz)
Daylight Saving Time – Top 3 Pros and Cons (ProCon)
Measurable health effects associated with the daylight saving time shift (NIH)
Daylight Saving Time Transitions: Impact on Total Mortality (NIH)
The pros and cons of switching to permanent Daylight Saving Time (Global News)
U.S. Senate approves bill to make daylight saving time permanent (Reuters)
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Early Hollywood and the Hays Code
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (Wikipedia)
Movie Ratings Turn 50: How the MPAA Changed the Film Industry Forever
Film content information in Ontario
Beyond Today’s Video Game Rating Systems
The effectiveness of a parental guide for prevention of problematic video gaming in children (NIH)
Parental Guidance: A Content Analysis of MPAA Motion Picture Rating Justifications 1993–2005
7 ways being a parent is different around the world (Business Insider)
The Intriguing History of 1930s Baby Cages
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Did you bring home a pandemic pet? (Globe and Mail)
When Did People Start Keeping Pets? (Smithsonian)
The Evolution of Pet Ownership (Pedigree)
A New Origin Story for Dogs (The Atlantic)
Why do we love pets? An expert explains. (The Washington Post)
Long before they conquered the Internet, cats took over the world (The Washington Post)
Understanding Relations between People and their Pets
From tigers to axolotls: Why people keep exotic pets in Russia
10 Famous Weird Pets in History (Flavorwire)
The Myth of "Mind-Altering Parasite" Toxoplasma Gondii? (Discover)
Can a cat parasite control your mind? (Live Science)
Covid-Sniffing Dogs Are Accurate but Face Hurdles for Widespread Use (The New York Times)
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Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
History of Barbados
Barbados to remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state (BBC)
What is a Commonwealth? (Government of Canada)
Barbados just cut its ties with the Queen. Should Canada follow suit? (CBC)
Majority of Canadians want to ditch the British monarchy. How feasible is it? (Global News)
Commonwealth: Seven things you might not know (BBC)
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2021 United States Capitol attack (Wikipedia)
FBI Capitol Attack Wanted List (FBI)
Harry and Meghan detail royal struggles (CBS)
Georgia bans giving water to voters in line under sweeping restrictions (Reuters)
Trial of Derek Chauvin (Wikipedia)
The road to the 2021 Census (Canadian Government)
Canadiens eliminate Maple Leafs in Game 7 (NHL)
London, Ontario truck attack (CTV)
Canadian Indian residential school gravesites (Wikipedia)
A look back at the 2021 B.C. wildfire season (CBC)
Did Richard Branson really make it to space? (CBC)
Every London, Ont., athletes’ performance at the Tokyo Olympics (Global News)
Tom Daley Is Knitting His Way Through The Tokyo Olympics (NPR)
Afghanistan: Joe Biden defends US pull-out as Taliban claim victory (BBC)
U.S. Supreme Court leaves Texas abortion curbs intact but allows suit (Reuters)
2021 Canadian federal election (Wikipedia)
The two Michaels are back home from China (Global News)
Why the metaverse is more than Mark Zuckerberg’s dream (The Verge)
November 2021 Pacific Northwest floods (Wikipedia)
After two failed attempts, Canada bans conversion therapy (NPR)
Mustangs win 2021 Vanier Cup (Western News)
What caused the deadly power outages in Texas and how Canada's grid compares (CBC)
Texas Senator Ted Cruz flew to Cancun, Mexico, amid weather crisis (BBC)
DO NOT Retweet this photo of Ted Cruz (Twitter)
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (NASA)
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Climate change (Wikipedia)
Germany Rejected Nuclear Power—and Deadly Emissions Spiked (Wired)
If They Are So Alarmed By Climate Change, Why Are They So Opposed To Solving It? (Forbes)
The four types of climate denier, and why you should ignore them all (The Guardian)
In Iceland, CO2 sucked from the air is turned to rock (Tech Xplore)
Nitrogen fixation (Britannica)
Brazil's deforestation is exploding—and 2020 will be worse (Science)
Making real a biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops (MIT)
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DNA profiling (Wikipedia)
DNA profiling dissertation (PDF)
Joseph James DeAngelo - Golden State Killer (Wikipedia)
After Arrest Of Suspected Golden State Killer, Details Of His Life Emerge (NPR)
London, Ont., was world's 'serial killer capital' (CBC News)
DNA solves 1984 murder of Christine Jessop (Global News)
Septic Tank Sam (Wikipedia)
Gattaca (Wikipedia)
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History of Halloween (History)
Razor blades in apples (Groovy History)
The real story behind Halloween candy tampering (CBC News)
A Brief History of People Tampering With Halloween Candy (Mental Floss)
Fun Halloween facts (Country Living)
Americans will spend a record $10 billion on Halloween (USA Today)
National Confectioners Association study reveals key pandemic consumer buying trends (Confectionery Production)
Top 10 Halloween phobias (Hippocratic Post)
The myths and folklore behind Halloween’s most popular characters (ZME Science)
What Do Bats Have To Do With Halloween (Refinery 29)
The Warty Toad (Things That Go Boo)
How Black Cats Came To Halloween (Hartz)
Spiders: A web of superstitions on Halloween (Ehrlich)
Rat king (Wikipedia)
Birds Of Halloween (Wingspan)
Why Owls Are a Spooky Symbol of Halloween (Yahoo)
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (Poetry Foundation)
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Do vaccine mandates violate Canadians' charter rights? (CTV News)
Vaccine mandates are not new to American history (Yahoo News)
50 years after historic report, Canadian officials reflect on anti-smoking efforts (Global News)
30 years ago smoking in public places was banned in Vancouver — and smokers were outraged (CBC News)
Smokers Rally in New York to Protest Ban (ABC News)
Differences and similarities between mandatory masks in 2020 and mandatory seatbelts in 1976
Ontario's seat belt law hailed for saving lives (The New York Times)
The government-control virus, unlike the coronavirus, is nearly impossible to fully recover from (Financial Post)
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms vs. vaccine mandates — and government inaction on COVID (CBC News)
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Did Biden Say Vaccines Protect Against Hurricanes? (Snopes)
Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wear ‘Tax the Rich’ Dress to Met Gala? (Snopes)
Does Pic Show Italian Police Ticketing Woman for Wearing Bikini in 1950s? (Snopes)
Did Mountain Dew Make a Flamin’ Hot Flavor? (Snopes)
Is Detroit Zoo Administering COVID-19 Vaccines to Animals? (Snopes)
No, Jim Bakker Didn’t Claim That God Can’t Hear Prayers Through a Mask (Snopes)
Did Nostradamus Predict the COVID-19 Pandemic? (Snopes)
Did Self-Described Psychic Sylvia Browne Predict the Coronavirus? (Snopes)
Did Fauci Warn Trump in 2017 That a ‘Surprise Outbreak’ Was Coming? (Snopes)
Did ‘ALF’ Predict a Global Pandemic Would Occur in 2020? (Snopes)
Is the ‘Umbrella Corporation’ Logo Oddly Similar to a Wuhan Biotech Lab’s? (Snopes)
Zoo: Name a Cockroach After Your Ex, And We’ll Feed it to a Predator (Snopes)
Man fined US$124 for kicking seagull that ate cheeseburger (CTV News)
B.C. man escapes fine for destroying gull's nest (CBC News)
Did ISIS Really Ban Pigeons? (Snopes)
Birds Aren’t Real
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Trudeau hit by gravel as protesters surround campaign bus in London, Ont. (CBC News)
Australia 'egg boy' clash: Senator cleared as teenager handed caution (BBC)
The chaotic story of the right to vote in Canada (Canadian Museum for Human Rights)
First Nations face real-life barriers to voting in next federal election (CBC News)
All prisoners have the right to vote in the federal election. Here's how (CBC News)
Elections Canada move to scrap campus voting 'damaging to our democracy,' Toronto-based group says (CBC News)
Rethinking voter identification: its rationale and impact (Australian Journal of Political Science)
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Who The Uyghurs Are And Why China Is Targeting Them (NPR)
Who are the Uyghurs? (Britannica)
Xinjiang: China defends 'education' camps (BBC)
Uighurs reflect on 2009 violence that set off Chinese crackdown (Washington Post)
The Persecution of China’s Muslim Uyghurs (Religion & Politics)
'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape (BBC)
US: China 'committed genocide against Uighurs' (BBC)
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Every London, Ont., athletes’ performance at the Tokyo Olympics (Global News)
Team USA top the Olympic medal table. Or is it China? Or … San Marino? (The Guardian)
Canadian Soccer Player Quinn Becomes The First Out Trans And Nonbinary Gold Medalist (NPR)
Olympic athlete Laurel Hubbard just shattered a transphobic myth (MSNBC)
Women athletes are pushing back against the uniform status quo (CBC)
How to ‘Use Your Olympian’: The Paradox of Athletic Authenticity and Commercialization in the Contemporary Olympic Games (SAGE)
Tom Daley Is Knitting His Way Through The Tokyo Olympics (NPR)
Who is the Tonga flag guy? Shirtless flag bearer is back for 2021 Tokyo Olympics (Sporting News)
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Man Who ‘Punched Horse’ at Anti-Lockdown Protest Faces Animal Cruelty Charge (Vice)
LA man who mocked Covid-19 vaccines dies of virus (BBC News)
The coronavirus pandemic 'Great Reset' theory and a false vaccine claim debunked (BBC News)
Three Seashells from Demolition Man (YouTube)
Debunking the Bill Gates 'Microchip' Conspiracy (YouTube)
Skull and Bones (Britannica)
The Skulls (Wikipedia)
Genesis 3:22 (Bible Hub)
Freemasonry (Britannica)
7 Things You May Not Know About Freemasons (History)
One Man Exposed the Secrets of the Freemasons (History)
A 200-year-old Conspiracy Theory Rears Its Head Again (Haaretz)
Coronavirus: Top Freemason in ‘God’s revenge’ row (The Sunday Times)
Masonic conspiracy theories (Wikipedia)
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Conspiracy Theorists Think Covid Vaccine Makes You Magnetic (YouTube)
Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (US Government)
SpaceX night launch…not a UFO (YouTube)
Mind-bending optical illusion leaves witnesses stumped (The Sun)
Earth-like biospheres on other planets may be rare (Science Daily)
How One Man Has Explained Almost Every Internet UFO Theory
Close Encounters: An Examination of UFO Experiences (Journal of Abnormal Psychology)
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Alien movies (Wikipedia)
Arrival movie (Wikipedia)
Men in Black movie (Wikipedia)
Independence Day movie (Wikipedia)
NASA Mars Return Sample (NASA)
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10 Failed Doomsday Predictions (Britannica)
2012 Mayan apocalypse (Wikipedia)
Harold Camping (Wikipedia)
Chen Tao cult (Wikipedia)
That Time People Thought a Comet Would Gas Us All to Death (Wired)
Joanna Southcott (Wikipedia)
Great Fire of London (Wikipedia)
Johannes Stöffler (Wikipedia)
Y2K (Wikipedia)
/r/Preppers (Reddit)
Luxury Nuclear Shelters (Survival Condo)
Doomsday preppers and the architecture of dread (University College Dublin)
Doomsday Preppers and the Rituals of Apocalyptic Manhood (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)
Emergency Preparedness (Government of Canada)
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Trans Girls Belong on Girls’ Sports Teams (Scientific America)
Barring transgender women, girls from female sports teams (CBC)
Olympic guidelines on transgender athletes to come after 2020 Games (CBC)
Caster Semenya Q&A: the runner’s discrimination case explained (The Guardian)
The treatment of Caster Semenya shows athletics' bias against women of colour (The Guardian)
World Athletics accused over 'abusive sex testing' of athletes from global south (The Guardian)
Caster Semenya accuses IAAF of using her as a ‘guinea pig experiment’ (The Guardian)
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War on Drugs (History)
Oliver Sacks said he benefited from LSD (Vox)
Patient hopes Canada will introduce regulations for psychotherapy (CBC)
Psychedelics Company MindMed Trips In Nasdaq Debut (Forbes)
Project MKUltra (Wikipedia)
Can Microdosing Psychedelics Improve Your Mental Health? (Harvard)
LSD Microdosing: The New Job Enhancer In Silicon Valley And Beyond? (Forbes)
I Tried Microdosing With Four Different Psychedelic Drugs (Willamette Week)
Microdosing’s Micromoment (The Cut)
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Florida Man (Wikipedia)
Florida man charged with throwing alligator into Wendy’s (Washington Post)
Florida patient loses patience, steals ambulance to get home from hospital (Tampa Bay Times)
Man used template he found on Pinterest to print counterfeit money (FOX 13 Tampa Bay)
A St. Petersburg man bet $100 on a Trump win. Now he’s being sued for not paying up (Tampa Bay Times)
Coast Guard rescues man running in a bubble in the ocean, again (CNN)
Security Guard Filmed All His Farts for Six Months and Went Viral (VICE)
A Giant Bird Killed Its Owner. Now It Could Be Yours. (New York Times)
Florida woman drunkenly bites man's fishing line, swims away with lure (FOX News)
Florida woman missing for 20 days found alive and naked in sewer system (FOX 25)
Naked man outside Florida Chick-fil-A arrested for trying to fight passersby (FOX News)
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What is White Fragility (Very Well Mind)
“White Fragility” prevents white Americans from confronting racism (The New Yorker)
Killing of Daunte Wright (Wikipedia)
Killing of Adam Toledo (Wikipedia)
Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility (The Atlantic)
Tucker Carlson’s latest white supremacist tirade (MSNBC)
Kimberly Jones Monopoly Analogy (YouTube)
Incel (Wikipedia)
Dr. Robin DiAngelo on Jimmy Fallon (YouTube)
A parade of straight white male fragility (Boston Globe)
Get Out trailer (YouTube)
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What is cancel culture? (Vox)
What is #Gamergate? (Vox)
Professor Is At Center Of Controversy Over Chinese Word That Sounded Like Racial Slur (NPR)
I’m Still Reading Andrew Sullivan, But I Can’t Defend Him (The New York Times)
New Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Alexi McCammond resigns over past racist tweets about Asians (CNBC)
The Bachelor's Taylor Nolan Says Public Outrage over Her Tweets Is 'So Valid' (People)
What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In? (The New York Times)
When the Left Turns on Its Own (The New York Times)
John Cleese Shamed the BBC Into Reinstating Ousted Fawlty Towers Episode (Vulture)
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Wikipedia)
Arrested Development (Wikipedia)
How ‘Cancel Culture’ Became An Issue For Young Republicans (Five Thirty Eight)
6 Dr. Seuss books won’t be published for racist images (AP News)
J.K. Rowling doubles down on transphobic comments (Global News)
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The Legend of Loch Ness (PBS)
Coelacanth Fish (Smithsonian)
Ogopogo (Wikipedia)
Leprechaun (World History Encyclopedia)
The legend of the Leprechaun (CBC)
Leprechaun movies (Wikipedia)
Finian's Rainbow (1968 film) (Wikipedia)
The Origins of Easter Day’s Rabbit (Time)
Ostara and the Hare (Library of Congress)
Easter at Winterthur (Antiques & Fine Art Magazine)
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The Vow NXIVM Documentary Trailer (YouTube)
Jonestown PBS Documentary (YouTube)
Jonestown cult (Wikipedia)
Jim Jones cult leader (Wikipedia)
NXIVM cult (Wikipedia)
Stanford prison experiment (Wikipedia)
Smallville (TV Show) (Wikipedia)
Battlestar Galactica (TV Show) (Wikipedia)
From ‘Smallville’ to a Sex Cult: The Fall of the Actress Allison Mack (New York Times)
How to Get Someone Out of a Cult (New York Times)
Michael's Pyramid Scheme - The Office (YouTube)
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Most Americans believe in heaven … and hell (Pew Research)
Millennials are more likely to believe in an afterlife than are older generations (National Post)
Ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs (Wikipedia)
Gaia hypothesis (Wikipedia)
Valhalla (Wikipedia)
Tony Steinberg: Brave Seventh-Grade Viking Warrior (YouTube)
Heaven in Christianity (Wikipedia)
Apeirophobia (Wikipedia)
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2 Vancouver residents break COVID-19 rules, get vaccines in Yukon (CBC)
The Year in Hate and Extremism (SPLC)
Canada Lists Proud Boys As A Terrorist Group (NPR)
DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat (Politico)
How a South Carolina mom left QAnon (CNN)
Why I talk to white supremacists (TED)
4 Myths About White Supremacy (Forbes)
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Microship implant (Wikipedia)
People With Bionic Hands Can’t Correct Their Sense Of Touch (Forbes)
Ford brings 'exosuits' to workers in 15 factories (BBC)
Neuralink: Elon Musk unveils pig with chip in its brain (BBC)
Ship of Theseus (Wikipedia)
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History of Smallpox (CDC)
Cutter Incident (NIH)
Canada Vaccine Injury Support Program
The discredited doctor hailed by the anti-vaccine movement (Nature)
COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker (New York Times)
Sputnik V Vaccine (Wikipedia)
COVAX Program (WHO)
Canada has secured more vaccine doses per capita than anyone else (The Washington Post)
Analysis of the Anti-Vaccine Movement in Social Networks (NIH)
Vatican says coronavirus vaccines 'morally acceptable' (BBC)
Inside the Mind of an Anti-vaxxer (The Atlantic)
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2019 - 2020 Australian bushfire (Wikipedia)
Qasem Soleimani drone strike (BBC)
Megxit - Prince Harry and Meghan (Wikipedia)
Impeachment of Donald Trump (Wikipedia)
Brexit (Wikipedia)
Chiefs pull off epic Super Bowl comeback (CNN)
Parasite (2019) (Rotten Tomatoes)
2020 Nova Scotia attacks (Wikipedia)
No attacks led to violent clearing of protesters for Trump’s bible photo op (Global News)
2020 Beirut explosion (Wikipedia)
SpaceX's historic Demo-2 Crew Dragon astronaut test flight (Space.com)
SpaceX Starship High-Altitude Flight Recap (YouTube)
Canada will send astronaut around the moon (CBC)
mRNA vaccines — a new era in vaccinology (Nature)
Unlocking the potential of vaccines built on messenger RNA (Nature)
Andrew Yang files paperwork to run for New York mayor (CNN)
Goats take over empty streets of seaside town (BBC)
Trapped by an angry squirrel, and other 2020 situations that didn't warrant a 911 call (CTV)
People Are Leaving 1-Star Reviews Of Scented Candles, Seemingly Unaware They Just Have Covid (IFL Science)
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Slave trader’s statue toppled in Bristol as thousands join anti-racism protests (BBC)
Three arrested after demonstrators splash paint on statues (The Toronto Star)
What There Are No Nazi Statues in Germany (Politico)
Should Statues Of Historic Figures With Complicated Pasts Be Taken Down? (NPR)
The Case for a Statue of Limitations (The Atlantic)
Controversial Champlain monument to be reinstalled in Orillia, with alterations (CBC)
Opinion: Don’t erase street names and tear down statues (Globe and Mail)
Unveiling America’s First Public Monument to Atheism (Time)
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George Floyd (Wikipedia)
London, Ontario budget
Camden, NJ Police Restructuring (NPR)
What the data say about police brutality and racial bias (Nature)
Sweden’s Mental Health Ambulance (Vice)
Canada's largest school board votes to end armed police presence in schools (CBC)
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Physical distancing circles painted on grass at Trinity Bellwoods Park (CBC)
Voldermort’s Awkward Hug (YouTube)
Ontario family invents the “hug glove” (CTV News)
Obama’s bow in Japan sparks some criticism (NBC News)
Tibetan tongue greeting
Vulcan salute (Wikipedia)
@KarensGoingWild (Instagram)
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Japanese role playing games (JRPG) (Wikipedia)
Contagion (2011 movie trailer) (YouTube)
Episode #16 - Universal Basic Income (Humanist Agenda)
Pope Francis Calls For Universal Basic Income (Forbes)
South Koreans turn COVID-19 hot zone into containment leader (PBS)
$500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court (CBC)
Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 30 years in space (CBC)
Starlink (Homepage)
TikTok Zoom Class Prank (TikTok)
Zoom-bombing attacks video conference (CBC)
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Latest update on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
John Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashbaord
AITA for snapping at my mom for talking about COVID-19 infront of my son? (Reddit)
US Health Weather Map
AITA for asking my Lyft driver to change her radio station away from the Christian/religious rock it was on? (Reddit)
AITA for telling my 8 year old that religion exists so priests can make rent? (Reddit)
House Hippo Commercial (YouTube)
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Latest update on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Off-Facebook Activity
Black History in Canada
Viola Desmond (Wikipedia)
The Case for Reparations
Indian Residential Schools in Canada
Basic Income (Wikipedia)
HBO’s Watchmen (Wikipedia)
Slavery reparations hearing ignites fiery debate in Congress (BBC)
What reparations mean to one American family (Post Reports podcast)
The First Reparations Attempt at an American College Comes From Its Students
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AOC questions Mark Zuckerberg (YouTube)
No one reported New Zealand mosque shooting video
Facebook’s Ad Library
Twitter to ban all political advertising
2020 presidential candidates top $100M in digital ad spending
Elizabeth Warren: Here’s how we can break up Big Tech
Where Warren’s Wrong
TikTok (Wikipedia)
Fake videos of real people with fake Obama (YouTube)
YouTube is demonetizing some LGBT videos
Vine - short video hosting (Wikipedia)
Canadian troops help Newfoundland residents dig out after record blizzard
Cats and the Internet (Wikipedia)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Movie)
The Expanse (TV Show)
Firefly (TV Show)
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Basic Income (Wikipedia)
Andrew Yang (Wikipedia)
Lawsuit over cancellation of UBI (Global News)
U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team Case for Equal Pay (The Atlantic)
U.S. women’s soccer team deserves fair pay (Houston Chronicle)
Thirty Meter Telescope (Wikipedia)
Thirty Meter Telescope on Maunakea (Non-Profit)
New poll shows steep decline in TMT support (KITV News)
HBO’s Watchmen (YouTube trailer)
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Santa Claus (Wikipedia)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Wikipedia)
Christmas Tree (Wikipedia)
Durian Fruit (Wikipedia)
Candy Cane (Wikipedia)
Kimba the White Lion (Wikipedia)
Issac Newton (Wikipedia)
Stonehenge (Wikipedia)
Manhattanhenge (Wikipedia)
Festivus for the rest of us (Wikipedia)
Chrismukkah (Wikipedia)
HumanLight (Wikipedia)
My Brother, My Brother and Me (Wikipedia)
Flying Spaghetti Monster (Wikipedia)
A very atheist Christmas (Richard Dawkins Foundation)
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Life Beyond Belief: A Preacher’s Deconversion (Amazon.ca)
How my mind has changed (London Free Press)
Leaving My Father’s Faith
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Listowel, Ontario
Ex-Muslims of North America
Quebec ban on religious symbols
Karl Marx
Richard Dawkins
Vox Documentary: Cults, Explained (full episode)
Religulous (documentary)
Jesus Camp (documentary)
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Life Beyond Belief: A Preacher’s Deconversion (Amazon.ca)
How my mind has changed (London Free Press)
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
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iPhone origin story
Clayton Christensen business professor
US teenager wins $3 million as Fornite world champion
Detroit: Become Human
Episode #17 - Freedom Dividends
The frustrating, enduring debate over video games, violence, and guns
Pod Save America podcast
Lessons from the Screenplay (YouTube)
CineFix (YouTube)
Nerdwriter (YouTube)
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
Humanist Association of London and Area events
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The Anthropocene Reviewed podcast by John Green
Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA)
Gay-Straight Alliances and Student Activism in Ontario Public Secular and Catholic High Schools
Ethical eating
Food Evolution - documentary
Top Five Myths Of Genetically Modified Seeds, Busted (NPR)
Episode #16 - Universal Basic Income
Episode #17 - Freedom Dividends
Lone Star Tick
Alpha-gal Allergy
Edible Insects
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
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With Friends Like These podcast
The X-Files
Flat Earthers
YouTube Unleashed a Conspiracy Boom
Behind the Curve documentary
Older People Shared Fake News on Facebook More Than Others
Snopes.com - fact-checking website
Pizzagate Conspiracy
Gay Bomb
Canadian “gaydar”
Hairy Spider Monkey on Mars
Factbox: From polonium to a poisoned umbrella
Is this lobster really writing numbers with a pen?
JOIN US for the Pride Parade (2019)
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
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List of conspiracy theories
The X-Files
Conspiracy Rising: Conspiracy Thinking and American Public Life
Illuminati
New World Order
Among the Truthers
Michael Shermer - Scientific American
Snopes.com - fact checking website
Streisand Effect
JOIN US for the Pride Parade (2019)
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
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Episode #18 - Out on a Limb
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Climate Gate Conspiracy
Washington set to become 1st state to allow 'human composting'
Ontario's Official Logo Looks Like 3 Men In A Hot Tub
Young people suing U.S. government over climate change get their day in court
Australia's Conservative Coalition Wins Surprise Third Term After Close Election
Costs of Ontario climate plan would be double Liberal carbon tax, raise household costs
Nuclear is the safest
Pandora’s Promise
The Most Radioactive Places on Earth
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)
Coal Ash is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste
Carbon pricing in Canada
Clean energy one of Canada's fastest-growing industries
JOIN US for the Pride Parade (2019)
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
Fun Fact: Did you know what the atmosphere of Mars is mostly carbon dioxide (95.3%)?
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ReForest London
Ontario tree-planting program dodges axe for a year
Million Tree Challenge
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
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Universal Basic Income Explained (YouTube)
Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend
Finland’s basic income trial boosts happiness but not employment
Mincome (experimental guaranteed annual income)
Alaska Permanent Fund
Jessie Golem’s Humans of Basic Income
Meet the Canadian doctor who prescribes money to low-income patients
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
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Basic Income (Wikipedia)
Universal Basic Income Explained (YouTube)
Ontario Basic Income Pilot (Ontario Government)
Ontario’s basic income pilot to end March 2019 (CBC)
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
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Split Brain, Undivided Consciousness?
The Origin of Consciousness (YouTube)
Love, Death & Robots
Yes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. Buy Why?
10% Brain Myth
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
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Dr. Wilder Penfield (Wikipedia)
Heritage Minutes: Wilder Penfield (YouTube)
Split Brain (Wikipedia)
Split brain behavioral experiments (YouTube)
Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
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Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk on Artificial Intelligence (SXSW YouTube)
Deepfake
The AI text generator that’s too dangerous to make public
This Person Does Note Exist
Is this photo real? AI gets better at faking images
The Trolley Problem
Would you sacrifice a human to save a robot?
Death of Elaine Herzberg by a Self-Driving Car
Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy Collision
Addition Video: Humans Need Not Apply (YouTube)
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
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Artificial Intelligence
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
Show Notes and Links:
Doug Ford just replaced the modern sex-ed curriculum with a 1998 version
The differences between Ontario’s interim sex-ed curriculum and 2015′s
TED Talk: Homosexuality: It's about survival - not sex
Big Mouth (TV series)
Irish vote to scrap offence of blasphemy
Take the Impossible “Literacy” Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s
American killed by isolated tribe on Indian island
Uncontacted peoples
Book of Mormon
Space Force!!!
SpaceX - Making Life Multiplanetary
Mars InSight Mission
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
Show Notes and Links:
Assaulted Women’s Helpline: 1-866-863-0511
Talk 4 Healing (for aboriginal women): 1-855-554-HEAL
Anova: 519-642-3003
Ford government scraps controversial Ontario sex-ed curriculum
How NOT to sexually harass someone
Aziz Ansari controversy
Neil deGrasse Tyson sexual misconduct allegations
Bishop sorry after ‘groping’ Ariana Grande
Monica Lewinsky
Dan Savage
Al Vernacchio: Sex Pizza
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
Show Notes and Links:
Episode #8 - My American Life
Multiculturalism in Canada
Black Lives Matter
YANSS Podcast 133 - Uncivil Agreement
Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Black Mirror - Nosedive
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
Show Notes and Links:
One Drop Rule
Walter White
George III
Jefferson is America — And America is Jefferson
Barack Obama
Jackie Robinson
Theodore Parker
American Civil War
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
Show Notes and Links:
Monica Tomlinson
Episode 6: Mindfulness: Not Just For Hippies
Why Stoicism is Having a Cultural Moment
Mindfulness and emotional intelligence
Mindfulness Industry
Mindful.org
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
Show Notes and Links:
Stonewall riots
What does LGBT stand for?
Toronto police withdraw bid to march in 2018 Pride parade
Toronto serial killer of gay men
Pride London Festival
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
Love, Simon (movie)
Dancing With Her (magazine)
Prom Queen: The Musical at the Grand Theatre London
Show Notes and Links:
Compulsory Voting
World Trade Organization
Privacy Hedge Along Canada-US Border
Ontario sex education to revert to 1998 curriculum
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
HALA monthly meetings
HALA board members
Pride London Festival
BONUS:
How to be a Canadian (YouTube)
The Expanse (TV Show)
Egoistic Alturism by Kurzgesagt (YouTube)
Show Notes and Links:
Dr. Charles Jones (profile)
Patriotism by Charles Jones (book on Amazon)
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
HALA monthly meetings
HALA board members
Pride London Festival
Show Notes and Links:
Episode #1 - Stoicism and Your Favourite Mug
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
Daily Stoic
Charity Village
Pillar Nonprofit Network
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
HALA monthly meetings
HALA board members
Pride London Festival
Show Notes and Links:
What is humanism?
Rod Martin's Stoicism presentation slides
London, Ontario
Humanist Association of London and Area (HALA)
HALA monthly meetings
HALA board members
Pride London Festival
Co-hosts:
Celina
Kenny (Twitter: @kenny_khoo)
Sherry
Will (Facebook)