Links of Interest for March 4, 2017

The ISHV Cyber Think Tank is a digest of articles, interviews, and other musings compiled by ISHV Board Member Robert B. Tapp.

ARTICLES

Charles Chu, Isaac Asimov: How to Never Run Out of Ideas Again read

Gleb Tsipursky, Collaborative Truth-Seeking read

Gleb Tsipursky, Preserving Our Democracy on Valentine’s Day read

James Croft, Justice Without God read

Lois Lee, GlobalPlus: The nonreligious in the world today read

Common Ground, new UU site, downloadable pamphlet read

Richard Flory, The changing nature of America’s irreligious explained read

Mary Troyan , Congress passes bill to protect non-believers for first time read

Robert Price, The Devil’s Work read

Center for Inquiruy's newsletter, Cause & Effect (Their merger with the Dawkins' Foundation is complete) read

David Breeden, Humanism, Specism, and the Baggage of Words read

FBB announces changes to Humanist Giving program read

Natasha Lennard and Cary Wolfe, Is Humanism Really Humane? Posthumanism, animal rights read

Maria Popova, Simone de Beauvoir on Atheism, the Ultimate Frontier of Hope, and the Need to Move Beyond the Simplistic Divide of Optimism and Pessimism read

Jason Blum, Bad things happen for a reason, and other idiocies of theodicy read

IHEU, The Freedom of Thought Report 2016 read

Colin Marshall, Henry David Thoreau on When Civil Disobedience Against Bad Governments Is Justified: An Animated Introduction watch

Five myths about Frederick Douglass read

Steven Rose, From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C Dennett review – consciousness explained? read

Carole Cadwalladr, Daniel Dennett: ‘I begrudge every hour I have to spend worrying about politics’ read

Devindra Hardawar, Transhumanist politician wants to run for governor of California read

AUDIO/VISUAL

British Humanist Association. many links to lectures watch

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Colbert on “God” (4M) watch

The Humanist Hour #227: Gleb Tsipursky on the Rational Politics Project listen

Charles Chu, Isaac Asimov: How to Never Run Out of Ideas Again read

Alain de Botton int. by Krista Tippett on love and relationships watch

Joseph Goldstein with Sam Harris on meditation watch

Eugenie Scott: What would Darwin say to today’s creationists? (2015 Darwin Day Lecture) watch

The Darwin Day Lecture 2016, with Jerry Coyne | Evolution and atheism: best friends forever? watch

Is humanity heading back to the dark ages? Professor Maggie Smith gives first ever Leeds Darwin Day Lecture watch

2,000 attend BHA Darwin Day Lecture on ‘cosmic natural selection’ given by Lawrence Krauss watch