Featuring skeptic events in the coming week across Europe and an interview with Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association
and President of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, former director of the European Humanist Federation.
(photo used under CC-SA-3.0 license)
Segments:
Intro; Greetings; Warm-up and feedback; What’s on in Europe?; Interview with Andrew Copson; Outro
Show notes:
00:00:00
INTRO music
00:00:26
Introduction and greetings
00:00:54
Warm-up and feedback
00:03:03
What’s on in Europe?
- ThinkCon
- See our calendar of Skeptic Events in Europe for more information
00:07:05
Interview with Andrew Copson
- Andrew Copson on Wikipedia
- The British Humanist Association’s website
- The International Humanist and Ethical Union’s website
- The European Humanist Federation’s website
- The Handbook of Humanism on Amazon
- BHA wins court case against UK government regarding school curriculum
- Petition for the defence of democracy in Hungary and other European countries
- Andrew Copson’s Twitter handle: @andrewcopson
00:44:05
Farewell
00:45:25
Outro
00:46:42
Out-takes
I love your podcast. I grew up as a child of a US Army officer, so we moved around a bit. My brother now works as a computer nerd for US embassies, so he gets to live all around the world (due to one child’s medical issues we only got to visit him when he was stationed in Denmark).
So as a skeptical podcast addict, I much appreciate your European based contribution! While Spanish is my first language, I speak it as well as any three year old, so thanks for being in English (muchas gracias!… rats, I had to use Google translate to create “Gracias por usar Inglés”… apparently I am really good at pronouncing Spanish, but not so much in grammar).
Though I have one weird question, why would someone from Sweden go elsewhere to ski? I thought there were ski resorts not far from the major cities in Sweden. Just like where I live (Seattle… far northwest portion of the USA, not far from the Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters), there are several places to ski (include night skiing) less than an hour away. Is it because the snow is different?. That I would understand, we call our local ski snow “Cascade Concrete” for a reason.
“Cascade Concrete” is mushy and icy. Rarely would it be powdery. Sometimes when skiing it was on snow while it was actually raining! Yeah, I am really selling the Cascade experience. Though there are ski resorts on the dry side of the mountain range (White Pass Ski Resort).