Appreciate Your Mind

Appreciate Your Mind


Latest Episodes

Appreciate Your Mind - Feb. 24, 2014
February 25, 2014

Technical problems in the studio are resolved, so I'm back! During this week's program I talk about Darwin Day; more evidence for a continuing trend of secularism in the U.S. and examples of why I think it's happening, including bizarre behavior and state

Appreciate Your Mind - Jan. 27, 2014
January 27, 2014

During this week's program I discuss the topic of tax money being used to teach religion as science; the most and least "Bible-minded" cities in the U.S.; continued attention on scientific studies and experiments that fail to be duplicated; a new theory o

Appreciate Your Mind - Jan. 20, 2014
January 20, 2014

During this week's program I use the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to discuss what has yet to be fulfilled since his "I Have a Dream" speech; new reports about growing worldwide economic inequality; the continuing battle over the right to vote; and more!

Appreciate Your Mind - Jan. 13, 2014
January 13, 2014

During this week's program I discuss the unique lifestyle that comes from living in poverty; why we fail to give scientific findings the weight the deserve; how emotional intelligence can be a detriment to cooperation in the wrong hands; the placebo effec

Appreciate Your Mind - Jan. 6, 2014
January 06, 2014

During this week's program I discuss a pastor who is going to try and live a year as an atheist; the competing urges we have to work alone and cooperatively; our proclivity to lie to ourselves and to rationalize bad behavior; and more! I play music from A

Appreciate Your Mind - Dec. 30, 2013
December 30, 2013

During this week's program I discuss new surveys showing a political split developing over the science of evolution; a new poll showing god beliefs continuing to decline in the U.S.; how a supportive society reduces the need for deity creation; white Jesu

Appreciate Your Mind - Dec. 23, 2013
December 23, 2013

During this week's program I attempt to be a D.J. and play secular Christmas music! I include songs from The Waitresses, Billy Squire, Straight No Chaser, Tim Minchin, John Lennon, Vienna Teng, Florence Welch And Billy Bragg, Destiny's Child, The Eels, Mi

Appreciate Your Mind - Dec. 16, 2013
December 16, 2013

During this week's program I discuss the relationship between blasphemy and treason; "affluenza"; poverty and wealth; the familiar lies from those pushing for more guns; how exposure to art and music leads to general improvements in kids; a new study show

Appreciate Your Mind - Dec. 9, 2013
December 09, 2013

During this week's program I discuss why the concept of gods is faulty; the unseen problems that will come with the push for "personhood"; the non-religious motivations for the rise in homeschooling; the problems faced by atheists when trying to be charit

Appreciate Your Mind - Dec. 2, 2013
December 02, 2013

During this week's program I talk about the Pope's recent calls for economic justice; billionaire philanthropist Peter Buffett's call the replacement of capitalism with humanism; the reasons Christmas gifts hold us hostage; the growing lack of trust betwe