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The 'dumb American' stereotype is one of the most enduring jokes on the internet. Viral street interview clips, geography fails, confidently wrong tourists. But are American's actually dumb? How much of this stereotype is actually earned, and how much is caused by something more nefarious?

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The party that ran on "small government" is currently running the largest surveillance and censorship apparatus this country has ever seen. Let's break down 10 freedoms quietly disappearing right now.

What freedom do you feel slipping that nobody seems to be talking about?

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I'm going to be in England this June, and I'd love to meet you.

I'll be at the 2026 Festival of Humanism, June 12 to 14, on a panel about building skeptical spaces online: what actually works, what people get wrong, and why some people avoid these platforms entirely. Friday kicks off with drinks and entertainment, then a weekend of scientists, journalists, historians, and campaigners. Come say hi!

Festival of Humanism 2026 | Bournemouth ALL SALES ARE NOW CLOSED Festival of Humanism 2026 Friday 12 June, 19:00 –Sunday 14 June, 15:15 Bournemouth International CentreExeter Road,BournemouthBH2 5BH The Festival of Humanism is a true highlight of the humanist calendar. Kicking off on Friday evening with a fantastic evening of enter...

The chair you're sitting in. The oxygen in your lungs. The iron in your blood. All of it was forged in the hearts of dying stars.

Episode 4 of my Origin of Life series is here, breaking down how we went from clouds of hydrogen to a universe full of complex matter, and how scientists actually figured all of this out.

When did you first learn you were made of stardust, and did it change how you saw the universe?

The Origin of Life: All It Took Was Hydrogen Where did everything around you actually come from, and how do we know stars built it all from almost nothing?You are made of atoms forged inside dying stars...

A religious organization with hundreds of billions of dollars in reserves and an army of lawyers just filed a federal lawsuit against a single podcaster.

If that sounds like something Scientology would do, you're not wrong. But this time it's the LDS church, and the target is Dr. John Dehlin of Mormon Stories, who has spent 21 years giving members and ex-members a place to share their experiences.

What would you do if the religion you grew up in tried to sue you into silence?

The Mormon Church Is Suing a Podcaster Into Silence The Mormon Church is suing Mormon Stories host John Dehlin! The LDS...

I spent 24 years as an evangelical Christian. Memorized scripture, led worship, did the missionary thing. So a lot of these stories stopped sounding strange to me a long time ago.

But I wanted to try an experiment: react to 7 core Christian doctrines as if I were hearing them for the very first time as an adult, with no cultural conditioning softening the edges. It got weird fast.

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What's the belief from your upbringing that hits different now?

An Atheist Reacts to Weird Christian Beliefs What does Christianity look like to an atheist? Have you ever stopped to consider how strange mainstream Christian doctrine actually sound to outsiders? If s...

Mormonism beliefs are wild! When I first heard some of these, I thought, "No WAY! This has to be anti-mormon propaganda!" And then I dug deeper... 😳

Holy Koolaid 67 likes, 15 comments. "The 11 Weirdest Mormon Beliefs"