Week In The News: Replacing Scalia, Primaries Heat Up, Apple's Privacy Battle (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

How much out-of-the-blue news can one week hold? This one began with conservative bulwark Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia found dead on a Texas ranch. And went all the way to the Pope in Mexico saying, more or less, that Donald Trump is not a Christian, and Trump calling the Pope disgraceful. We’ve got hot races in South Carolina and Nevada. The President headed to Cuba. And Apple versus the FBI. This hour On Point, our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/02/19/scalia-scotus-election-2106-pope-trump

Friday News Roundup – Domestic (Diane Rehm Show, 2016-02-19)

Apple is front and center in the debate over privacy after the company says they’ll fight a court order forcing them to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter. President Obama says he will not attend the funeral of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Meanwhile, the political debate over replacing the vacancy heats up. On his visit to Mexico, the Pope weighs in on the race for president and Donald Trump fires back. And ahead of Saturday’s Democratic caucus in Nevada, Hillary Clinton holds a small lead over Bernie Sanders. Guest host Cecilia Kang and a panel of journalists discuss this week in news.
Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2016-02-19/friday-news-roundup-domestic

Friday News Roundup – International (Diane Rehm Show, 2016-02-19)

The U.S. carries out airstrikes against ISIS targets in Libya. Humanitarian aid convoys arrive in besieged areas of Syria. And in Mexico Pope Francis calls attention to the world’s migrant crises. A panel of journalists joins guest host Cecilia Kang for analysis of the week’s top international news stories.
Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2016-02-19/friday-news-roundup-international

St. Louis Archbishop Urges Priests To Cut Ties With The Girl Scouts

Carlson's letter says Girl Scouts of the USA and affiliated organizations promote role models like Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan who are "in conflict with Catholic values." It says the organization promotes and is partners with organizations that advocate for things such as contraception and abortion rights...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/st-louis-archbishop-girl-scouts

Illinois Court To Hear Case Challenging Cruz's Presidential Eligibility

A judge in Illinois will hear arguments on Friday for a case challenging Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) eligibility to run for president, according to USA Today...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/illinois-court-cruz-eligibility

4 Problematic Statements White People Make About Race -- and What to Say Instead

Below are some of the most common problematic statements - and what you can say (or not say) instead...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-owens/4-problematic-statements-white-people-make-about-race_b_9212864.html

Climate Change Is Decimating Maine's Lobster Population

The outbreaks are so lethal, according to a biologist involved in both studies, that at least one species of sea star has vanished off the coasts of Washington and British Columbia and the lobster fishery, already decimated in southern New England, will likely be threatened in Maine...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/grub-street/climate-change-is-decimat_b_9277194.html

No, Bernie Sanders Did Not Promise to Free a Quarter of America's Prisoners

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-wagner-givens/no-bernie-sanders-did-not_b_9276422.html

Sanders' Speaking Fees Are Nowhere Near Clinton's and He Donates It All to Charity (VIDEO)

Hillary's appeal to consistency did her no favors...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/sanders-speaking-fees-are-nowhere-near-clintons-and-he-donates-it-all-charity-video

Marco Rubio's Campaign Is Truly Pathetic — So Why Hasn't the Media Noticed?

From the glowing reviews he gets, you'd think Rubio was neck and neck with Trump. In fact, he's not even close...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/marco-rubios-campaign-truly-pathetic-so-why-hasnt-media-noticed

Hightower: Big Pharma Identified 7,000 Govt Officials They Need to Control to Run Their Price Gouging Operation

The industry's spending millions to protect you from public officials who might stop them from overcharging you...
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/hightower-big-pharma-identified-7000-govt-officials-they-need-control-run-their

10 Fascinating Ways Our Ancestors Got High

As long as we've been around, we've been finding ways to alter consciousness.
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/10-fascinating-ways-our-ancestors-got-high

Why Bernie's Health Care Plan Is Very Realistic and Achieveable

Clinton plays it safe, but Sanders's plan just might keep America healthy.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-bernies-health-care-plan-very-realistic-and-achieveable

Watch Bernie Sanders Go After Obama's Opponents in this Passionate Rebuttal of Racism

"By the way, I am appalled, people can agree with Barack Obama, you can disagree with Barack Obama, but anybody who doesn't understand that the kind of obstructionism and hatred thrown at this man, the idea of making him a delegitimate president by suggesting he was not born in America because his dad came from Kenya—no one asked me. I'm a citizen and my father came from Poland. Gee, what's the difference? Maybe the color of our skin... All of us together have got to say no to xenophobia and to racism and to bigotry of all forms."
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/sanders-obama-racism-birther-trump

The Way of the Mister: Atheist Fundamentalist

https://youtu.be/B3B-PQpGBdY

Flint Water Crisis: Contractors Made Millions on Switch

Who made the call to switch to river water in Flint? And why? The answer is as simple as it is familiar. Money. Whenever there's a scandal in politics...just follow the money.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/XwVO3mn5QR4

Sanders to UAW crowd in Dearborn: 'We need fair trade'

Bernie Sanders tells cheering crowd in Dearborn: If we can rebuild villages in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can rebuild Flint.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/15/sanders-uaw-crowd-dearborn-we-need-fair-trade/80416440/

Ted Cruz Promises to Rescue Christians from “Persecution” if Elected President

Like the term “persecution,” Cruz uses “defend” in a fashion that is at odds with the actual meaning of the word. Marriage doesn’t need defending because it isn’t under attack, just like equal protection under the law doesn’t amount to persecution...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/02/19/ted-cruz-promises-to-rescue-christians-from-persecution-if-elected-president

Supreme Court Must Reject “Ludicrous” Exemptions to Contraceptive Coverage, Says Center for Inquiry

...The plaintiffs have already been granted an overly generous way to avoid participating in a democratically enacted social program, CFI says in its brief. It points out that never before has the Supreme Court held that a requirement to seek a religious exemption constitutes a burden on religion, saying that such broad veto power over generally applicable laws sets a terrible precedent...
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/newsroom/supreme_court_must_reject_ludicrous_religious_exemptions_to_contraceptive_c/

Most states let bosses fire people for being gay. Majorities in every state don't approve.

Generally, support for prohibiting anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace, housing, and public accommodations is very high in New England and the West.
http://www.vox.com/2016/2/19/11054174/nondiscrimination-law-support-map

Canada Announces 2016 Presidential Candidacy

Our white neighbor in the North asks for our vote, pledging to save us from ourselves. (Sketch originally posted to Facebook by Entrehub)
https://youtu.be/bGTznIy6i4w

Put an Atheist on the Supreme Court

Atheists are a significantly underrepresented minority in government. According to recent findings from the Pew Research Center, about twenty-three per cent of American adults declare that they have no religious affiliation—which is two percentage points more than the number who declare themselves Catholic...
In addition, the appointment of an atheist Justice would send a meaningful message: it would affirm that legal arguments are secular, and that they are based on a secular document, the Constitution, which was written during the founding of a secular democracy...
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/put-an-atheist-on-the-supreme-court

The Way of the Mister: Atheist Fundamentalist

https://youtu.be/B3B-PQpGBdY

Stephen Weighs In On Trump vs. Pope

https://youtu.be/hGhSOE5K0kY

REVEALED: Women endure prolonged miscarriages thanks to Michigan Catholic hospital’s abortion ban

As a result, the report claims, several of the women suffered infection or emotional trauma, or had to undergo unnecessary surgery. None of the women were pregnant beyond 24 weeks, when an infant can survive outside the womb...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/revealed-women-endure-prolonged-miscarriages-thanks-to-michigan-catholic-hospitals-abortion-ban/comments/

Former Interrogators Call On Presidential Candidates to ‘Unequivocally’ Reject Torture

Semantics aside, the group of former intelligence professionals points out that waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation” techniques simply don’t produce good intelligence...
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/02/18/3750553/torture-interrogators-letter-to-candidates/

South Carolina Trump Supporters Say They’ll Never Forgive Nikki Haley For Removing Confederate Flag

"That’s Southern history, and she’s a stupid idiot..."
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/02/17/3750656/confederate-flag-trump/

CEO Behind West Virginia's Historic Chemical Spill Gets 1 Month In Prison | ThinkProgress

“This defendant is hardly a criminal,” U.S. District Judge Thomas E. Johnston said after handing down the sentence, according to Ward. “I stand by that statement.”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/17/3750629/west-virginia-chemical-spill-sentence/

We're Getting Fleeced: Privatized Water Is 58% More Expensive Than Tap Water, Major New Study Finds

An exhaustive study shows privatization is more expensive, despite the right-wing's insistence to the contrary...
http://www.alternet.org/activism/were-getting-fleeced-privatized-water-58-more-expensive-tap-water-major-new-study-finds

Can Pornography Actually Help Our Relationships?

Take the shame or secretiveness away from porn and it can be one of a couple's most powerful tools.
http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/can-pornography-actually-help-our-relationships

More Americans Should Be Working

Despite job gains over the past few years, then, the labor market in the U.S. seems to be malfunctioning in a way that labor markets in other rich countries aren't...
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-18/more-americans-should-be-working

Judaism for Nones: Millennials and God, with Rabbi Mark Wildes (Point of Inquiry)

The “nones” are on the rise in the U.S. with 33 million Americans identifying as having no religious affiliation. Atheists shouldn’t get too excited, though, because 68% of the unaffiliated indicate that they do believe in some sort of god. What kind of god do the nones believe in? This week’s guest, Rabbi Mark Wildes, wants it to be the God of Abraham.

Rabbi Mark Wildes is the founder and director of the Manhattan Jewish Experience, a program for young Jewish professionals in their 20s and 30s with little or no background in Judaism interested in connecting with the community. With the unaffiliated being concentrated heavily in the young adult demographic, and with 1 in 5 American Jews identifying as nones, Rabbi Wildes believes there very well may be something about Judaism that could draw in millennials, those who are looking for a certain kind of moral guidance that includes both purpose and reason.
Interview:
http://www.pointofinquiry.org/judaism_for_nones_millennials_and_god_with_rabbi_mark_wildes/

How Obama would fix the ACA's 'Cadillac Tax' - CSMonitor.com

The Affordable Care Act's Cadillac Tax on high-cost employer-sponsored health plans has few friends on Capitol Hill, but a top administration adviser argues that it is a 'crucial tool' for making the US healthcare system more efficient...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Tax-VOX/2016/0210/How-Obama-would-fix-the-ACA-s-Cadillac-Tax

Like Millennials, More Older Americans Steering Away From Driving

"I've got a bunch of grocery stores in walking distance, and even then I can use the bus if I have to get further," he says.
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/11/466178523/like-millennials-more-older-americans-steering-away-from-driving

Michigan's Water Wars: Nestlé Pumps Millions of Gallons for Free While Flint Pays for Poisoned Water

As Flint residents are forced to drink, cook with and even bathe in bottled water, while still paying some of the highest water bills in the county for their poisoned water, we turn to a little-known story about the bottled water industry in Michigan. In 2001 and 2002, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality issued permits to Nestlé, the largest water bottling company in the world, to pump up to 400 gallons of water per minute from aquifers that feed Lake Michigan. This sparked a decade-long legal battle between Nestlé and the residents of Mecosta County, Michigan, where Nestlé’s wells are located. One of the most surprising things about this story is that, in Mecosta County, Nestlé is not required to pay anything to extract the water, besides a small permitting fee to the state and the cost of leases to a private landowner. In fact, the company received $13 million in tax breaks from the state to locate the plant in Michigan. The spokesperson for Nestlé in Michigan is Deborah Muchmore. She’s the wife of Dennis Muchmore—Governor Rick Snyder’s chief of staff, who just retired and registered to be a lobbyist. We speak with Peggy Case, Terry Swier and Glenna Maneke of Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation...
https://youtu.be/gCl-3WwkJgg

Inside How Citizens, Journalists, Doctors & Scientists Exposed the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up

We speak with Curt Guyette of the ACLU of Michigan. He is an investigative reporter who was just named Michigan Journalist of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. He talks about the citizen-led effort to prove, despite assurances by state officials, the Flint water supply was contaminated with lead...
https://youtu.be/eUpNEJsoMQA

What Did GM & the Governor Know? GM Stopped Using Flint Water Over a Year Before Emergency Declared

In October 2014, General Motors recognized the Flint water was corroding its engines. They got permission from the city’s unelected emergency manager–who was appointed by Republican Governor Rick Snyder–to disconnect from Flint’s water and go back to Detroit water. It would be another year before the people of Flint were finally allowed to disconnect from the corrosive Flint River as their water supply and hook up again to the Detroit water system. By then, the Flint River water had corroded the city’s aging pipes, poisoning the drinking water with lead, which can cause permanent developmental delays and neurological impairment, especially in children. We speak with a GM autoworker in Flint about the company’s actions once it realized that Flint’s water was corroding car engines...
https://youtu.be/2I0ShNQC2Cc

RWW News: Robertson: Quit Your Job To Avoid Voodoo

https://youtu.be/FjCee_u2APM

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Voting (HBO)

Every American deserves an equal vote. But in some states, access to voting is becoming less and less equal.
https://youtu.be/rHFOwlMCdto

John Kasich Says 'The Debates Are The Dumbest Thing Going'

Presidential hopeful John Kasich talks debates, division and doesn't quite answer Stephen's question about whether or not he'd nominate a Supreme Court Justice in his final year as President.
https://youtu.be/IbyFn4Ak_wE

Evolution and Empathy: Singer v D'Souza part 2

https://youtu.be/X3oYQE765Oc

RWW News: Robertson: Bernie Supporters Are Ignorant Sheep

https://youtu.be/0asA4LtQLak

The Hungry For Power Games: Caligula's Fallen

Julius Flickerman and his new co-host Caligula pay their respects to the latest fallen tributes.
https://youtu.be/a2xVrQg1E8E

Ronald Reagan's Message to Republicans Who Want to Block Obama's Next Supreme Court Nominee

Reagan nominated a Supreme Court justice less than 14 months before he left office...
Reagan once said, "It would be unfair to the parties with cases before the Supreme Court and unfair to the remaining members of the court to be left without nine full-time justices. Each of us owes a sacred debt to our ancestors and to the citizens of the future."...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/scalias-replacement-ronald-reagan-has-message-obama-blocking-republicans

Why Thousands Are Demonstrating at US Schools

Rallies are expected at about 900 schools today...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/thousands-students-parents-teachers-rallies-urban-districts-demand-funding

Streaming on Netflix: A Borrowed Identity

A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity...
http://www.netflix.com/title/80016230

Teachers Take Stands In Detroit, Chicago (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

We know big urban school districts have struggled for a long time to do their jobs, but lately some look at the edge of meltdown. In Detroit, teachers resorting to “sickouts’ to protest schools just falling to pieces. In Chicago, the state of Illinois threatening to take over in a last ditch maneuver that has not worked in Detroit. There are issues with unions, but also with equity and the way we do or do not educate some of our most disadvantaged kids. Now the Supreme Court is in the mix. This hour On Point, Detroit, Chicago, and urban education in meltdown mode. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
https://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/01/26/detroit-schools-teachers-unions-chicago-education

The National Review's Case Against Trump (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Are powerful conservatives jumping out the windows as Donald Trump dominates the polls on the eve of Republican primary voting? Yes. In huge letters across the cover of the conservative National Review, this message: “Against Trump.” Read on, and there’s plenty against Ted Cruz too. Top conservatives against the GOP’s frontrunners. What a wild year. This hour On Point, Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, explains why he’s against Trump. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
https://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/01/26/election-2016-donald-trump-national-review

What's going on with polar ice sheets?

With the Arctic and Antarctic experiencing below average, if not record-low, sea-ice coverage, climate and polar researchers are scrambling to quantify how ice-loss could effect global sea levels...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0210/What-s-going-on-with-polar-ice-sheets

Evangelical Dilemma: Do Principles Trump Practicality?

Trump’s ban on Muslim immigration is just as antithetical to religious freedom as Cruz’s brand of Dominionism.
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/evangelical-dilemma-do-principles-trump-practicality

How We Learn To Eat (Terry Gross, Fresh Air)

Bee Wilson says that our taste preferences can be formed even before birth. Her new book, 'First Bite,' examines how genetics, culture, memory and early feeding patterns contribute to a child's palate. Also, David Edelstein reviews the Coen brothers' new epic, 'Hail, Caesar!'
Interview:
http://freshairnpr.npr.libsynfusion.com/how-we-learn-to-eat

Freezing: The New Science Of Cold (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

We say “don’t freeze to death” when people head out into real cold. And that’s a good idea. But we’re also captivated by the power of “frozen.” Frogs frozen stiff all winter that hop off, fresh and lively, in the spring. Bodies and brains frozen in hopes of reanimation. Athletes hitting the cryotank. Deep cold as a potential lifesaver in trauma and surgery. New techniques for bringing the nearly frozen-to-death back to life. This hour On Point, life, death, and the power of frozen. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
https://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/01/28/cold-science-freezing-ice

The Reason for Reason

Here I illustrate the simple failures of faith and Bibliolatry as contrasted with truthful understanding and epistemology.
https://youtu.be/6hp376PFoRs

Mississippi Dems hope to fix ‘all the things going wrong’ by making Bible state’s official book

Miles said he’s not trying to force his religious beliefs on Mississippi residents but believes the Bible promotes compassion...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/mississippi-dems-hope-to-fix-all-the-things-going-wrong-by-making-bible-states-official-book/

Now Accepting Applications: CFI Internship Opportunities for Summer 2016

Each year, CFI provides opportunities for students to get more involved with the freethought movement by offering student internships and volunteer opportunities at CFI locations across North America. The following are the internship positions for summer 2016...
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/oncampus/news/now_accepting_applications_cfi_internship_opportunities_for_summer_2016/

Answering Matthew4Nineteen

Matthew4Nineteen sent me a message on Skype asking that I make a video response to the video sent. OK. Here is the original video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi8eY...
He said he wanted as many atheist responses as possible...
https://youtu.be/0Bg5Y6uZQws

RWW News: John Hagee Says America Will Be Lost Forever If Obama Is Allowed To Replace Scalia

John Hagee says that America will be immediately lost if President Obama is allowed to name a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and falsely claims there is a law preventing Democrats from confirming a justice in an election year.
https://youtu.be/HXjeEDrKEag

Top U.S. & World Headlines — February 17, 2016

https://youtu.be/uHALPnt_iiw

PHILOSOPHY - Epistemology: The Problem of Skepticism [HD]

Is knowledge humanly possible? In this video, Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto) looks at skeptical arguments, starting with Ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy, and moving forward into contemporary brain-in-a-vat scenarios. We’ll review a variety of reasons to worry that knowledge might be impossible, and we’ll examine the difference between global and local forms of skepticism.
https://youtu.be/PqjdRAERWLc

Five Stupid Things About Islamism

"Political Islam combines religion and politics, and often pursues its goals through violence and intimidation. That's not good for anyone, least of all Muslims..."
https://youtu.be/y2D2CdSGeyc

Jeb Boasts He Helped 80,000 Kids Go To Christian Schools So They Could Be Told 'Jesus Loves You'

Watch as Jeb Bush says he took on "powerful interests" so Florida school children could transfer into private religious schools – and he can do that for the rest of America...
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/jeb_boasts_he_helped_80_000_kids_go_to_christian_schools_so_they_could_be_told_jesus_loves_you

New Idaho Bill Would Let Teachers Reference the Bible in Astronomy, Biology, and Geology Class

For some people, it’s not enough that bibles are already allowed in public schools and kids can read it for pleasure if they want to...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/02/17/new-idaho-bill-would-let-teachers-reference-the-bible-in-astronomy-biology-and-geology-class/

These are the key cases facing the Supreme Court after Scalia’s death

Here are the key cases to know...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/02/14/these-are-the-key-cases-facing-the-supreme-court-after-scalias-death/

How Thinking About Your Own Death Affects Your Beliefs About Politics, Race, Religion and More

Contemplating our own mortality may open Pandora’s box.
http://www.alternet.org/belief/how-thinking-about-your-own-death-affects-your-beliefs-about-politics-race-religion-and-more

NYT's David Brooks Begins a Conservative 12-Step Program

After Eight Years of Trying to Make Right-Wing Looniness Seem Respectable: A New York Times columnist sees the light of Obama's decency and humanity...
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/nyts-david-brooks-begins-conservative-12-step-program-after-eight-years-trying

Cruz wrongly says Trump's only Supreme Court pick is his sister, a 'hardcore pro-abortion liberal'

Says "the one person (Donald Trump) has suggested that would make a good justice is his sister, who is a court of appeals judge appointed by Bill Clinton. She is a hardcore pro-abortion liberal judge."...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/16/ted-cruz/cruz-trump-thinks-his-sister-hardcore-pro-abortion/

Do presidents stop nominating judges in final year?

Let’s first note that the scenario that Rubio is describing — a Supreme Court vacancy in the last year of a presidency — is pretty rare to begin with. Since 1900, it’s only happened once to a "lame duck" president, and twice more to presidents who lost re-election bids. All three times, the exiting president made nominations...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/14/marco-rubio/do-presidents-stop-nominating-judges-final-year/

Republicans Invent New Supreme Court Tradition Out of Thin Air

In any case, congratulations as usual to Mitch McConnell for not bothering with this self-righteous pretense. He says the Senate won't vote on a replacement for Scalia because, basically, they just don't want to...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/republicans-invent-new-supreme-court-tradition-out-thin-air

The American State of Teenage Sex, in 3 Charts

In fact, no studies have found evidence that teaching abstinence works to prevent teenage pregnancies. And yet this year, the federal government will fund abstinence-only education to the tune of $85 million...
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/state-of-teen-sex-america-chart-abstinence

Michael Moore and "Where to Invade Next" (Marc Maron, WTF Podcast #675)

Michael Moore says he’s angrier than he’s ever been about the state of things. But Marc senses something softer in Michael’s personality these days. The filmmaker and activist sits down with Marc in the garage to discuss where that anger comes from, why he’s made a conscious choice to channel those feelings in a new direction, and how this all plays out in his latest film, Where To Invade Next.
Interview:
http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_675_-_michael_moore
https://youtu.be/3ectVTS8Tzo

Best of Christopher Hitchens Arguments And Clever Comebacks Part Six

Interview:
https://youtu.be/9cgOzsBUJTQ

Seeking Sites Of Global Genius (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Athens. Vienna. Silicon Valley. Calcutta. Hangzhou, China. Edinburgh. Florence. All of them are cities that, at different moments in history, have seen genius thrive. With artists like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, philosophers like Aristotle and Plato, and with our modern tech innovators, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. This hour On Point, the geography of genius and creativity around the globe. — Jane Clayson
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/01/22/geography-innovation-genius

Depression Screening For All? (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

New recommendation from a national task force this week: that all adult Americans be screened by their doctor, their GP, for depression. And if they’re struggling, get them on to antidepressants and/or into psychotherapy. Is life that bad? We all need depression screening? That’s not the point, says the panel. Too many people go undiagnosed – and suffer. New moms and moms-to-be in particular. But everybody. This hour On Point, the call to screen us all for depression. And treat it. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
https://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/01/28/depression-mental-health-screening

"Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know" by Dr. Peter Boghossian

Dr. Peter Boghossian's May 6th public lecture, "Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know"...
https://youtu.be/qp4WUFXvCFQ

Presidential race exposes growing divisions among evangelicals - LA Times

As older, predominantly white churchgoers age and a younger generation thinks differently about faith, evangelicals are fracturing as a voting bloc and the power of pastors to all but endorse candidates from the pulpit is fading.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-gop-evangelicals-divide-20160214-story.html