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Center Stage

Summary: Center Stage is the weekly podcast/radio series that brings you stimulating lectures and events from the Center for Inquiry (CFI). The nation’s leading think tank for secularism, science, and reason, CFI stages events at its headquarters in Amherst, New York, and under the auspices of branch Centers in New York City, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and elsewhere. There’s always something thought-provoking and controversial on stage at some Center for Inquiry.

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  • Artist: Tom Flynn and Lauren Becker
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Podcasts:

 Episode 244 - “A Universe Just For Us,” Part II. With Will Kinney | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:01

A University at Buffalo physicist concludes his critique of an unscientific account of the cosmos.

 Episode 243 - “A Universe Just For Us,” Part 1. With Will Kinney | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:01

A University at Buffalo physicist targets an unscientific account of the cosmos.

 Episode 242 - “The Necessity of Secularism: Why God Can’t Tell Us What To Do”. With Ronald A. Lindsay | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:32

Center for Inquiry president and CEO Ronald A. Lindsay probes the foundations of secularism.

 Episode 241 - “Matilda Joslyn Gage: Bringing Her into History, Part II”. With Sally Roesch Wagner | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:53

Part Two of a lecture by Sally Roesch Wagner, profiling forgotten suffrage leader – and freethinker – Matilda Joslyn Gage.

 Episode 240 - “Matilda Joslyn Gage: Bringing Her into History, Part I”. With Sally Roesch Wagner | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:18

Part One of a lecture by Sally Roesch Wagner, profiling forgotten suffrage leader – and freethinker – Matilda Joslyn Gage.

 Episode 239 - “Taking The Freethought Trail on the Road”. With Margaret Downey | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:39

Activist Margaret Downey shares her experiences presenting west-central New York’s Freethought Trail.

 Episode 238 - “The Trouble with Robert Ingersoll: Guilt by Association in a Revolutionary World”. With Lauren Becker | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:41

This week on CenterStage, a sweeping presentation that captures the intellectual and religious climate of the Victorian age.

 Episode 237 - “What Robert Green Ingersoll Has to Offer Secular Young People Today”. With Cody Hashman | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:00

This week on CenterStage, a talk by Center for Inquiry field organizer Cody Hashman.

 Episode 236 - “Frederick Douglass as an Antislavery Campaigner, Feminist, and Freethinker”. With Christopher Cameron | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:05

A lecture by historian Christopher Cameron profiling abolitionist icon Frederick Douglass.

 Episode 235 - “Where Are You, Robert Ingersoll, Now That We Need You Again?”. With Susan Jacoby | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:52

This week on CenterStage, a speech by best-selling author and historian Susan Jacoby.

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 Episode 185 - An All-Star Conversation About Skepticism, Part 1. With Sir Harold Kroto, Richard Saunders, P. Z. Myers, and moderator Ray Hyman | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:47

Part One of an all-star conversation about skepticism from the 2011 conference of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

 Episode 184 - Skepticism and the Media, Part 2. With David Huntley, Indre Viksontas, Sandra Blakeslee, and moderator Michele Blackley | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:13

Part Two of a session on skepticism and the media from the 2011 conference of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

 Episode 183 - Skepticism and the Media, Part 1. With David Huntley, Indre Viksontas, Sandra Blakeslee, and moderator Michelle Blackley | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:50

Skepticism and the Media: Win Over an Unlikely Audience by Telling a Better Story

 Episode 182 - UFO Claims. With Robert Sheaffer, Jim McGaha, and moderator Leonard Tramiel | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:47

Today on Center Stage, a stimulating discussion of claims of unidentified flying objects from the 2011 CSI conference.

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