Brainstorm Podcast

In the second of our summer interview series Cory talked to Aaron Rabi from Embrace the Void and Philosophers In Space. They talked about morality, empathy, free will, and the value of philosophy. As always it was a great conversation and Aaron was great to talk these subjects out with. 

Here are some links 

https://voidpod.com/

http://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/

https://voidpod.com/podcasts/2018/6/27/ev-049-opportunity-vs-outcome-with-cory-johnston

http://thebrainstormpodcast.com/embracing-the-void-with-aaron-and-gw

http://thebrainstormpodcast.com/defending-the-atheist-community-with-aaron-rabi

https://www.patreon.com/posts/brainstorm-after-15553351

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This is the first in the series of interviews that will be coming out over the course of the summer. In this one Cory talked to Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid about his upcoming documentary and his new book. 

Here are a few links for fun and information

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4401

https://principlesofcuriosity.com/

https://sciencefriction.tv/

https://skeptoid.com/

https://amzn.to/2tPiNTG

As for the rest you can contact us at [email protected]

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In this one Cory, Angela, Lisa, Destin, and the amazing Dave talk about IQ, life span, god's appearance, and perpetual motion machines.

Some links

  

Science  

Cory's Story- https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-iq-scores-1970s.html

http://time.com/5311672/iq-scores-decline-environment/ http://www.techtimes.com/articles/230241/20180614/iq-scores-dropping-since-the-1970s-are-people-getting-dumber.htm

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/norwegian-study-iq-scores-dropped-for-decades/4445319.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/health/falling-iq-scores-study-intl/index.html

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aLUTjHyxGwBqhrdsCkNzo0up522R8wmC/view?usp=sharing

Religious Nuttery

Angela's Story – https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/religion-live-longer-muslim-jewish-christian-hindu-buddhist-life-expectancy-age-a8396866.html 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sl_J3bqHlXTMszoQ8VarpSGJ9zgOUULU

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2018/06/17/religion-leads-to-longevity-well-not-quite-but/  

Destin's Story - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59qqp5/this-is-what-god-looks-like-according-to-american-christians-study?utm_source=vicefbus 

Woo Report

Cory's Story - http://scibabe.com/katvond/ 

Lisa's Story – Perpetual motion machines https://youtu.be/Bft7Wd8QElw

https://youtu.be/4b8ZsFszE8I  

Lisa's Story - https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/goop-is-gas-lighting-women/ https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2018/06/13/gwyneth-paltrow-and-goop-are-the-couture-of-snake-oil-and-the-fast-food-of-health/ 

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/06/19/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-is-now-using-misleading-scientific-labels-to-appear-legit/

  

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In this episode Cory, Destin, Angela, Lisa, and the amazing Dave talked to Ian Bushfield about a recent supreme court ruling on the rejection of Trinity Western University's law school by the law societies of BC and Ontario, as well as various other ways that religion and government mix in Canada.

Here are a couple links

  

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trinity-western-supreme-court-decision-1.4707240

https://www.bchumanist.ca/humanists_react_to_twu_decision

  

As for the rest you can contact us at [email protected]

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 In this episode Cory, Angela, Lisa, Destin and the amazing Dave talk to Matthew Lee Loftus aka The Credible Hulk. They talked about the Hulk's origin story, anti science activists, and how to reach the public.

Here are some links

https://www.facebook.com/therealcrediblehulk/

http://www.crediblehulk.org/

https://twitter.com/_Credible_Hulk_ 

As for the rest you can contact us at [email protected]

Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at [email protected] for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.facebook.com/cjbrainstorm

Remember to check out aloststateofmind.com and www.voidpod.com 

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In this installment of Shift To Reason Radio Cory, Lisa, Angela, Leo, Brandon, and Dave talk about politics, spiders, and pseudoscience. It was a lot of fun and many laughs were had.

Here are some links

Religious Nuttery

Brandon's Story - http://deadstate.org/22-year-old-christian-preacher-clarifies-that-he-wants-gays-executed-humanely/

Cory's Story - http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingtomatthew/2018/06/no-atheists-are-not-more-religious-than-christians/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/american-atheists-religious-european-christians/560936/

Woo Report

Lisa's Story – https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/mosconis-brain-food-diet/

Science  

Angela's Story- http://theconversation.com/should-i-kill-spiders-in-my-home-an-entomologist-explains-why-not-to-95912

Politics

Leo's Story - https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trade-war-trump-blasts-canada-on-twitter-1.3954972

https://globalnews.ca/news/4244344/us-steel-aluminum-tariffs-canada-exemption/

https://globalnews.ca/news/4245336/canada-retaliation-us-steel-aluminum-tariffs/ 

  

As for the rest you can contact us at [email protected]

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In this one Cory, Lisa, Angela, Leo, Brandon, and Dave talk about what the effects of drug legalization would be and then they talk about a meme that's been going around again. 

Here are some links

https://news.vice.com/article/ungass-portugal-what-happened-after-decriminalization-drugs-weed-to-heroin

http://www.urban75.com/Drugs/drugten.html

https://www.projectknow.com/the-case-for-legalizing-drugs/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arguments_for_and_against_drug_prohibition

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/16/worlds-eight-richest-people-have-same-wealth-as-poorest-50 

  

As for the rest you can contact us at [email protected]

Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at [email protected] for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.facebook.com/cjbrainstorm

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In this episode of the Skeptic Studio Cory, Angela, Lisa, Leo, Brandon, and the amazing Dave talk to Mandisa Thomas. Mandisa is the founder and president of Black Non-Believers. She tells us about herself and some of the struggles she's had to face because of her identity. 

Here are some links to find her

https://www.patreon.com/mandisalateefah 

https://blacknonbelievers.wordpress.com/

https://blacknonbelievers.wordpress.com/a-word-from-our-president/

http://www.aahumanism.net/stories/view/mandisa_thomas

https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/28/living/black-atheist-confession/index.html

https://americanhumanist.org/what-we-do/speakers-bureau/mandisa-thomas/

https://www.atheists.org/people/mandisa-thomas/

https://youtu.be/-B0SuDwlilU

https://twitter.com/mandy0904

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Thomas

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In this one the Cory, Rene, Lisa , Brandon, and Dave talk about the Santa Fe shooting and its connection to incels and then of course they discuss the intellectual dark web and Jordan B. Peterson. 

Here are some links

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/opinions/santa-fe-shooting-was-different-kayyem/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/us/texas-school-shooting/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/20/santa-fe-shooting-suspect-dimitrios-pagourtzis-motive

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5749709/Texas-school-shooter-killed-girl-turned-advances.html?ito=social-facebook

Also this https://www.facebook.com/SBSAustralia/videos/1969246553094984/?hc_ref=ARSIiOXaymAw4z1aX0nqxwGykTFksL0AgqihXm2vv-uIoi0xEAHMtZPwoODzFHYQsOk

And the intellectual dark web

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html

As for the rest you can contact us at [email protected]

Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at [email protected] for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.facebook.com/cjbrainstorm

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 In this episode of the Brainstorm Shift To Reason Radio, Cory, Rene, Lisa, Brandon, and the always amazing Dave cover stories about stargates, pot, the NFL, and eggs. It's quite the mix of topics and a lot of fun.

Here are some links

Rene's Story - https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/533gxx/there-are-people-who-think-the-west-invaded-iraq-over-a-stargate?utm_source=vicefbus 

Lisa's Story - https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/marijuana-treats-vaccine-adverse-effects/ 

Fuck You

Brandon's Story- http://www.fox5dc.com/sports/nfl-discussing-possible-steps-to-deal-with-anthem-protests-1 

Science

Lisa's Story #2 - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180521184702.htm 

As for the rest you can contact us at [email protected]

Follow the show on twitter @brainstormpod, check out the facebook page at facebook.com/brainstormpodcast, or join our discussion group; The Brainstorm Podcast Discussion Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562304800464606/ or email us at [email protected] for your email to be read on the air. If you have a question or thoughts and want to remain anonymous then just let me know in the email or you can message me on facebook. The url for that is www.facebook.com/cjbrainstorm

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