CiTR -- Radio Freethinkers

This Web Wisdom Week: - What Happened Before History- Human Origins – Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell - The Sixth Extinction – It’s Okay To Be Smart - The Problem with Time & Timezones – Computerphile - AI Self Improvement – Computerphile - Would You Buy a Car That’s Programmed to Kill You – Big Think, and - Will Robots Make Us More Human – Vsauce2

This Web Wisdom Week: - Orlando - John Green - How Common Are Gay Animals? - DNews - Rituals - History of Ideas - What "Orwellian" really means - Noah Tavlin - What makes something "Kafkaesque"? - Noah Tavlin - 5 Chemicals That Are in (Almost) Everything You Eat - SciShow - 10 Surprising Chemicals Your Body Makes - SciShow, and - Can I Die From Too Much Water? Blood? Oxygen? - SciShow

This Week: We look at the UK choice to stay or leave the EU.

This Web Wisdom Week: Click Bait Health Headlines - Health Care Triach Why we collect things - VSause The failure of the three rules of robotics - Computerphile The Dangers of AI = Computerphile Are we ready for aliens - VSause, and Why people make their own language - Xidnaf

This Web Wisdom Week: - Click Bait Health Headlines - Health Care Triach - Why we collect things - VSause - The failure of the three rules of robotics - Computerphile - The Dangers of AI = Computerphile - Are we ready for aliens - VSause, and - Why people make their own language - Xidnaf

This Week: Something new - de-Conspiracy Theory...we start with a look at the motivations, evidence and validity of the claim that the moon landing was faked. we also have some web wisdom about why we procrastinate... Also, a new virtual co-host...Hal, the AI

This Week: Do aliens exist? What are the criteria for life What are correlates for life What’s so special about carbon and water Snowball Earth How do we detect exoplanets and their types What is intelligent aliens life The Fermi Paradox Life in our solar system (Europe, etc) Risks of Aliens Our first message to aliens, Nazies

This week a special show with guest Matt Harvey. We take look at the way popular media portrays and stigmatized mental illness… The disconnect between the reality of mental illness and the fictional account we all assume it true... Matt shares a very personal and inspirational story of being stricken with Bi-Polar Disorder, learning to live with and finding that it can be both a source of strength but a lens to help one realize how very lucky we are…not sure what I mean by that, listen and find out.

This week a whine about the threat of AI to the future of humanity... Also, everything you need to know about GMO - We cover the basics of genetics... - How we have manipulated the genome of plants and animals for countless millenniums... - How are GMO type foods evaluated... - How anti-GMO is often the same as climate change denialism... - Where most anti-GMO-ers get the science wrong... - How anti-GMO conflates with anti-Monsanto, anti-capitalism, etc... - And why labeling GMOs is not only a bad idea there is a better way...learn from the organic movement.

This week: - Interview with BC Humanist Association's Executive Director, Ian Bushfield… > What is Humanism? > Why a secular society if important? > What campaigns are they perusing? - The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick from TED-Ed, and - IF - from VSause…

This Week: - Where is outer space - Laser powered space ships - Gravity Waves - Black Hole twins - The prairie correspondent on censorship - Who invented the internet and - Who owns the moon...

This week a cavalcade of web humour as we fill our plates with Atheist stand up comedy: - Ricky Gervais - The Bible - George Carlin - Religion is Bullshit - Tim Minchin - Spiritualism and feet - Dave Allen - religious jokes for the decades past - Lewis Black - Creationism and The Old Testament, and - Dave Foley - Atheists

This week's : The Brussels terrorist attack...integration vs surveillance. Brazil's political unrest and the possibilities of a coup-d'etat, and When is it valid to overthrow a democratic government?

Note to listeners...due to illness, i was forced to record portions of this episode with an artificial voice. I hope you find it a novity and an example of how far technology has come. On this weeks show: - Anarchically Science - is Rick, of Rick & Morty, an ideal scientist? - The Ideas Channel - Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Bill Moyer and company - International comparisons of child poverty - Economic Update - Marx - The System is the problem - Chris Hedges, The Left Form

Joining us again is Matt. This week - AI and what you need to know - Meteorite murders - Twins and space, and - Fukushima 5 years later.