Links of Interest for October 25, 2018

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

Tali Sharo, The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others (watch)

Richard Feynman: Entropy, Past And Future, History Of The Universe (2 pts) watch

David Breeden A Tale of Two Gods read

Katie Fustich, On religion and the left: Does socialism have to mean atheism? read

Rick Snedeker, We Could Learn from Critical-Thinking Initiative in Rural India read

Julia Sweeney on Freethought Matters (28m) watch

barna.com. Atheism Doubles Among Generation Z read

Steven Pinker’s Best Arguments of All Time, Part One watch

Why do progressives hate progress? by Steven Pinker watch

Margaret Fuller: Maria Popova remembers this transcendentalist feminist. read

Hemant Mehta, 2017 Freedom of Thought Report Highlights World’s Worst Countries for Atheists read

Alain De Botton On Free Will (5m) listen

David Breeden, How Ought We Live Our Lives? read

Chris Sloggett, Only secularism can defeat the emboldened Hindu right read

The Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine (Junior items) read

Casey Cep, Why Are Americans Still Uncomfortable with Atheism? read

Atheist Republic News watch

Ayun Halliday, Behold Kurt Vonnegut’s Drawings: Writing is Hard. Art is Pure Pleasure. watch

Jonathan Merritt, It’s Getting Harder to Talk About God read

Hemant Mehta, Here Are the Biggest Church/State Separation Cases Facing the Next Supreme Court read

James A. Haught, Is It Blasphemy or Honesty? read

Adam Gopnik, The Prophetic Pragmatism of Frederick Douglass read

Mano Singham, Are religion and evolution necessarily incompatible? read

Michael Fitzgerald Atheism, the Computer Model: Big data meets history to forecast the rise and fall of religion read

Rick Snedeker, ‘Nones,’ Thus Far, Too Shy to Be A Force in American Politics read

Hemant Mehta, Poll Shows Nearly Half of British Adults Don’t Believe Jesus Performed Miracles read

Rick Snedeker, Even Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Skeptic Wrestles With Divine read

UK, Replace RE with ‘religion and worldviews’, says commission read

Libby Anne, Christopher Hitchens, Doug Wilson, and the Making and Remaking of a Platform read

Latest British Social Attitudes Survey shows Church of England hit record low read

Rick Snedeker, No Joke: Eight States’ Constitutions Bar Atheists From Public Office read

Susan Frederick-Gray, This is no time for a casual faith read

Rick Snedeker, Christianity’s Great ‘Fake It ‘Til You Make It’ Con read

Hemant Mehta, Atheists Characters in TV and Film Are Far More Complex Than They Used To Be read

Julian Baggini, Hume the humane read

David Breeden, In the Garden of Dark and Darker read

David Breeden, Best Religion Ever read

Tom Krattenmaker, A New Vision for Secular Transcendence read

Fred Edwords, Faith and Faithlessness by Generation: The Decline and Rise are Real read

Dale McGowan, As the Christian Church Crumbles, is Humanism Ready to Step Up? read