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Humanist Network News #37
A Chat with Chaz Mena
Interview: We devote this entire program to one conversation
with New York City-based actor Chaz Mena. A Cuban-American humanist,
Mena is currently touring the country performing his one-man play, Charla, A Chat With Josà MartÃ.
MartÃ, the subject of Mena's play, was a 19th century Cuban
revolutionary, poet and humanist. During this interview, Mena describes
the life and times of Martà and performs excerpts from Charla. He also addresses the need for the humanist ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #36In this installment of the Humanist Network News podcast, we boldly
go where we've never gone before: to the cosmos and the land down under.Humanist Network News #36
Show Notes
Announcement: HNN is Award Finalist
The Humanist Network News podcast is a finalist in the 2008 Podcast
Awards. Please vote for our program once per day until Nov. 6 at http://podcastawards.com
Segment 1: Science as a Source of Wonder
Speech: Planetary scientist Dr. Carolyn Porco explains how her
journey as a thi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #35Summary: In this month's audio podcast we've got celebrities and the media on the brain this program. First we interview 60 Minutes Commentator Andy Rooney about his atheist beliefs, then we record a "Humanist StoryCorps" with the National Secular Society of U.K. about their work promoting secularism in the media.Segment 1: Andy Rooney on Atheism
Andy Rooney is America's favorite curmudgeon, known for his commentaries on the CBS news program 60 Minutes
and for his syndicated news ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #34Summary: Topics covered in this program include: feminism, Chinese literature,
learning about other cultures, globalization, technology, human labor,
culture clash, consumerism, communications and business.
Special Announcement
We have big news about the future of the Humanist Network News podcast.
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Segment 1: Chinese Women Warriors in Literature
Interview: Jes Constantine and Ruth N. Geller speak with Prof.
Fan Pen Li Chen about the tradition of the Chinese woman warrior in
l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #33Summary: We are dedicating this entire program to one story. During the 1970s, P.
Thomas Carroll read and transcribed hundreds of Charles Darwin's
personal correspondences for research purposes. Carroll shares his
story of becoming intimately familiar with the great 19th century
evolutionary biologist over the course of several years and 14,000
letters.Show Notes:P. Thomas Carroll is the executive director of the Hudson Mohawk
Industrial Gateway in Troy, N.Y. But between 1972 and 1975, to p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #32This month's Humanist Network News podcast
is modeled after the popular National Public Radio program StoryCorps.
In this program we hear the personal stories of humanists from
Scotland, Africa, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Brazil and the U.S.Segment 1: A Humanist Wedding and Funeral in Scotland
Scotland made national headlines in 2005 when the country hosted the
first legally recognized humanist wedding. Derek Young and Clare Marsh,
members of Humanist Society Scotland, share their stories ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #31Summary: This month's Humanist Network News podcast
is a special promotional show recorded for the World Humanist Congress
of the International Humanist and Ethical Union which will be held in
Washington DC from June 5-8, 2008. The program contains excerpts from
dozens previously released HNN interviews.Guests include:
E.O Wilson, Harvard Biologist and two time Pulitzer Prize winnerMatthew Chapman, author, filmmaker and great-great grandson of Charles DarwinU.S. Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #30In this month's Humanist Network News audio podcast
we speak to Greg Graffin, Ph.D., lead singer of the punk rock band Bad
Religion and professor of life sciences at UCLA. This weekend at
Harvard, Graffin received the lifetime achievement award in cultural
humanism, given by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University.Segment 1: AHA Adopts HNN podcast
Announcement: Starting this episode, the Humanist Network News
audio podcast is now the official podcast of the American Humanist
Associat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #29In this month's Humanist Network News audio podcast
we explore the human mind. Dr. J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. explores the
psychological anatomy of a suicide bomber. Dr. Stephen Uhl shares his
story of transformation from a sincere Catholic priest to an atheist
psychologist.Segment 1: Genetic Origins of Suicide Bombing
Dr. Andy Thomson explains the genetic origins of suicide bombing. In
this segment we learn about the relationship between male bonded
coalitions for violence, suicide, and rel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #288Segment 1: Introducing The Atheism Tapes
Richard Lorber is president and CEO of Lorber HT Digitial, a Manhattan
production company that recently released Jonathan Miller's The Atheism Tapes on DVD under the Alive Mind Media label. The Atheism Tapes
features interviews between Jonathan Miller and such notable thinkers
as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and the late Arthur Miller. Lorber
presents Jonathan Miller's interview with Arthur Miller (no relation)
for HNN listeners.
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Humanist Network News #27In this month's audio podcast
we gear up for the 199th anniversary of Charles Darwin, which is
celebrated around the world as Darwin Day on Feb. 12. Our first guest
is Matthew Chapman, writer, director producer and great great grandson
of Charles Darwin. Our second guest is anthropologist and songwriter
Richard Milner, creator and star of the musical Charles Darwin Live
& In Concert.Segment 1: The Descent of Darwin
Interview: Matthew Chapman is a writer, director, film producer and the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #26Summary: In HNN #26 we travel to Yale University to speak to former
surgeon and author Dr. Richard Selzer about humanism and healing.
Selzer's vivid autobiographical essays give us a rare glimpse into a
surgeon's world. Selzer's literature marries the harsh realities of
blood, broken bones and death with the compassionate reflections of a
humanist and a healer. His books include: Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery, Confessions of a Knife, and Letters to a Young Doctor.Segment 1: Fa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #25In this month's audio podcast Humanist Network News interviews author Philip Pullman about the religious protest of The Golden Compass,
a new film based on his fantasy novel. Also, suburban sprawl critic
James Howard Kunstler speaks to HNN about how and why Americans need to
re-think the spaces they inhabit.Segment 1: Author Philip Pullman on The Golden Compass as an atheist film
Interview: Matt Cherry speaks by phone with British author Philip Pullman, whose book The Golden Compass
recent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #24In this month's audio podcast
we celebrate our program's two-year anniversary by interviewing Sam
Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens. HNN's
Duncan Crary interviewed these best-selling authors, a.k.a. "The New
Atheists", at the Atheist Alliance International annual conference in
September. At the conference, Harris, author of "The End of Faith,"
told the crowd that they should not identify with the atheist label.
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Humanist Network News #23Summary: In this month's audio podcast
we interview U.S. Representative Pete Stark, the highest elected
official in the United States to openly acknowledge that he does not
believe in a supreme being. We hear from Tom, an atheist volunteer
working to make the world a better place. Some humanist university
students in Edinburgh, Scotland tell us about their new campus group.
Norwegian journalist Evan Gran observed us recording this show for an
article in Fri Tanke Magazine. Gran tell us a li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #22The focus of today's program is the international humanist youth movement. We present to you a special dispatch from Nepal, with recordings from the Fifth Annual Conference of the International Humanist and Ethical Youth Organization (IHEYO) Conference, held in Vijayawada, India from Oct. 29, to Nov. 4, 2006.
Segment 1: International Humanist Youth in India
The Society for Humanism (SOCH) Nepal reports on the IHEYO Conference held in India. This segment includes recordings from the speake ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #21Summary: The topic of this month's audio podcast is Camp Quest, the sleepaway summer camp for children from humanist, atheist and other freethinking families. Amanda Metskas is president of Camp Quest, Inc., the national umbrella organization that gives organizational support to six Camp Quest programs located throughout North America. Throughout our show, we hear from the campers and counselors of Camp Quest West in California and Camp Quest Ohio.
Segment 1: Camp Quest Campers
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Humanist Network News #20This month's guests on the HNN Audio Podcast
are Harvard Law Prof. Alan M. Dershowitz, Humanistic Judaism founder
Rabbi Sherwin Wine, and student gay rights activist Erin Davies of the
"Fag Bug" project.Segment 1: Rushdie honor inflames Muslim world
Update: Jes and Duncan give a brief update on recent HNN podcast
guest Salman Rushdie. Rushdie was recently knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
Muslims in Iran and Pakistan are threatening violence.
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Humanist Network News #19Segment 1: Sweet Reason on Language for the Nonreligious
Advice Column: Molleen Matsumura, creator of the "Sweet Reason"
humanist advice column, responds to novelist Salman Rushdie's question
about finding nonreligious language as powerful and beautiful as its
religious equivalent.
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Segment 2: Humanist Biologist E.O.Wilson on religion and environmentalism
Interview: Two-time pulitzer prize winning Harvard biologist
E.O. Wilson speaks with Duncan Crary about his recen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #18In HNN Audio Podcast #18, we interview acclaimed novelist and humanist Salman Rushdie about the organized humanist movement and the relationship between the novel and humanist thought. This show also contains live recordings of the April 20 ceremony hosted by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard honoring Salman Rushdie with the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. The
ceremony , which took place in the Memorial Chapel at Harvard Yard,
marked the beginning of The New Hu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #17In HNN 17, we interview Humanist Chaplain atHarvard University Greg Epstein, we host an intergenerational dialogue aboutlesbianism, feminism and humanism, we introduce the Institute's new humanistlobbyist, and we discuss humanism in the media: the good, the bad and the ugly.Segment 1: Humanism in the Media: Good, Bad & UglyRoundtable discussion: Rep. Pete Starks (D-Calif.) was recentlyidentified as the highest elected official in the U.S. who openly states that he doesnot believe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #16In HNN Audio Podcast #16, we speak to a geomythologist, a rational rapper, and The Almighty Himself, Mr. Deity. Guests: Adrienne Mayor, Greydon Square, Brian Dalton.
Segment 1: The Cyclops and Other Giants in the Fossil Record???
Interview: Adrienne Mayor is a folklorist/ historian of ancient science who investigates early scientific observations expressed in myths and oral traditions. Mayor's book The First Fossil Hunters theorizes that ancient Greek and Roman myths about griffins, giant ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #15In this month's podcast we celebrate the birthday of Charles Darwin and his contribution to evolutionary biology. We speak with evolutionary biologist Massimo Pigliucci, Ph.D., Noell Hyman a.k.a. "Agnostic Mom", Matt Cherry, executive director of the Institute for Humanist Studies, evangelical Christian-Goth musicians The Rapture Right, Secular Student Alliance Executive Director August E. Brunsman IV and Ghandi Scholar Prasad, who founded the Vasavya Society for Rural Developmen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #14The theme of this month's podcast is humanists taking legal action to defend their rights. We speak with Secular Coalition for America lobbyist Lori Lipman Brown, Heidi Bruggink, legal coordinator for the Appignani Humanist Legal Center at the American Humanist Association, and Ellery Schempp, who initiated the landmark U.S. Supreme Court Case which declared that public school-sanctioned Bible readings were unconstitutional. HNN Listeners share their thoughts on humanism. And contributor Ja ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #13Summary: In this month's show we explore the topic
of sex from a humanist perspective. Please be advised that the theme of this
show is adult in nature and some portions may not be appropriate for certain
listeners. We speak with sex therapist Marty Klein, Ph.D, cartoonist Jeff
Swenson and humanist advice columnist Molleen Matsumura, a.k.a. "Sweet
Reason." Film critic Carolyn Braunius reviews Short Bus. And as a very
special treat we perform a radio play, "Humanist Love - Dei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #12Happy Halloween! In this month's podcast
we have two, count 'em two celebrity interviews. We speak with singer
Holly Near about her music and activism, and then we speak with
comedian Julia Sweeney (of Saturday Night Live fame) about her show
"Letting Go of God." We also talk to cartoonist Matt Bors about his
recent visit to a "Hell House" and Matt Cherry reads an essay about the
origins of Halloween.
Segment 1: Holly Near Ain't AfraidHolly
Near is a life long activist f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #11Summary: The theme of this month's
podcast is civil liberties and religious discrimination. We hear from a United
Nations representative, an attorney, a lobbyist and an activist.
Segment 1: Humanist Defends Pope
As executive director of the Institute for Humanist Studies,
Matt Cherry isn't accustomed to defending the Pope. But that's the position he
found himself in last week on the Garry Doyle show, a talk radio program
broadcast on 570 News in Kitchener,
Ontario, Canad ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #10Summary: In this month's podcast we speak to a member of the New Orleans Secular Humanist Association about the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We interview Brenda Frei, the atheist who spent one month living with an evangelical Christian family for the reality tv show 30 Days. Margaret Downey, the new president of Atheist Alliance International, makes an historic announcement about her organizations annual conference (which falls on the same day as the annual conference of Ameri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #9In this month's podcast we talk about same sex marriage,
stem-cell research, human cloning and the "Republican War on
Science." We also have a review of the TV show "Psych." Jes
Constantine joins Duncan Crary to host the show.
Segment 1: Same for Everyone
Interview: Host Duncan Crary speaks with
Judy Disco about same-sex marriage in New
York. Judy has been in a committed same sex
relationship for 18 years.
End. 9:19
Musi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #9In this month's podcast we talk about same sex marriage,
stem-cell research, human cloning and the "Republican War on
Science." We also have a review of the TV show "Psych." Jes
Constantine joins Duncan Crary to host the show.
Segment 1: Same for Everyone
Interview: Host Duncan Crary speaks with
Judy Disco about same-sex marriage in New
York. Judy has been in a committed same sex
relationship for 18 years.
End. 9:19
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Humanist Network News #8In this month's podcast we invite a lawyer, a comedian and a
whole bunch of superheroes on our show. We also say goodbye and wish good luck to
humanist lobbyist Tim Gordinier.
Segment 1: Newdow,
God & the Constitution
Interview: Elaine
Friedman, HNN ezine editor, interviews Michael Newdow about his lawsuits to
remove the word "God" from U.S. Pledge of Allegiance and currency.
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Musical Interlude:
"Waiting for Rain& ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #7Today's program focuses on a single story. A humanist recounts
his time spent observing the religious right as a fully embedded member of the
Christian Coalition.
Intro: Just how
far would you go to keep an eye on your enemy? Larry Jones, president of the Institute for Humanist Studies served nearly four years as a co-founder of a
local chapter of the Christian Coalition. A second generation atheist and
tenured humanist, Jones spent his time with the Coalition helping a watch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #6Segment 1:
Interview: Is America a Christian nation? Host Duncan Crary speaks with Dr. Timothy Gordinier about his recent debate with a Christian fundamentalist lobbyist on separation of church
and state. Dr. Gordinier is the director of public policy at the Institute for Humanist Studies. He is a registered lobbyist for humanism in New York state.Musical Interlude: "Gods Don't Worry" by Stanley Lucas Revolution
Segment 2:
Interview: How can the humanist movement attrac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #5
Segment 1:
Interview: Alison Bates, campus organizer of the Secular Student Alliance, speaks with host Duncan Crary. The Secular Student Alliance promotes freethought and secularism among college and high school students. Alison, 25, works to provide support to more than 50 student groups in more than 8 countries.
Interview: Host Duncan Crary speaks with Judd Krasher, a high school senior who recently completed a public policy internship at the Institute for Humanist Studies. Judd shar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #4Segment 1:Interview: How do freethinking cartoonists feel about the Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy? Host Duncan Crary speaks by conference phone call to cartoonists Mikhaela B. Reid, of Brooklyn (The Boiling Point), Matt Bors, of Ohio (Idiot Box), and Jeff Swenson, of Seattle (Freethunk!). Listener Comments: HNN listeners from all corners of America share their views on the Muhammad cartoon controversy. Segment 2:Interview: An Atheist goes to church. Host Duncan Crary speaks by phone w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #3Segment 1:
Interview: Why are there so few African-Americans involved in the humanist movement? Host Duncan Crary speaks with McKinley Jones and Taunya Hannibal-Williams of the Black American Free Thought Association (BAFTA) about black Americans and humanism. The black community in America is very religious. But many leaders in black history and the civil rights movement were African-American humanists and freethinkers. BAFTA is working to educate people about the role of freethought in b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #3Segment 1:
Interview: Why are there so few African-Americans involved in the humanist movement? Host Duncan Crary speaks with McKinley Jones and Taunya Hannibal-Williams of the Black American Free Thought Association (BAFTA) about black Americans and humanism. The black community in America is very religious. But many leaders in black history and the civil rights movement were African-American humanists and freethinkers. BAFTA is working to educate people about the role of freethought in b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #2Segment 1:
Interview: Host Duncan Crary speaks with Larry Jones about the Santa Claus myth. Jones, president of the Institute for Humanist Studies, is a second generation atheist. His family celebrated Christmas, complete with Santa Claus, as a secular holiday. Jones says that discovering the truth about Santa helped him to learn how to think critically for himself.
Listener Comments: HNN listeners share their secular holiday traditions by calling the HNN listener comment line at 206-339- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Humanist Network News #1Segment 1Interview: Matt Cherry on how and why he became a humanist.Announcement: The Secular Student Alliance is looking to hire a paid, full-time campus organizer.SSA Now Hiring
Segment 2Interview: Marty Mulligan on how podcasting can help humanism. Liberated Syndication
Musical interlude: "Dope" by Mudfunk, a song with a humanist message. MudfunkHumanist hits articleLou and Peter Berryman
Segment 3Interview: Matt Cherry interviews Larry Jones about providing grants to humanists. IHS G ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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