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Books

  • Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
  • The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
  • The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t
  • I’m Just a Person
  • Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future
  • The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
  • Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
  • God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
  • A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
  • Every Day is an Atheist Holiday
  • Experts

  • Greta Thunberg
  • Mandisa Thomas
  • bell hooks
  • Penn Jillette
  • James Randi
  • Julia Galef
  • Julie Sondra Decker
  • Stephanie Brown
  • B.J. Fogg
  • Shelly Johnson
  • Cristen Conger
  • Caroline Ervin
  • Madeline K. Sofia
  • Sabrina E. Dent, DMin
  • Jeremiah Camara
  • Ricky Gervais
  • Rebecca Sugar
  • Celeste Ng
  • Angie Thomas
  • Raychelle Burks
  • Jane K. Willenbring
  • Maya Shankar
  • Diona Reasonover
  • Gillian Jacobs
  • Issa Rae
  • Hakeem Oluseyi
  • Movies/Videos

  • I Am Greta
  • Contradiction: A Question of Faith
  • An Honest Liar
  • Bill Nye: Science Guy
  • The Hate U Give
  • Podcasts

  • Periodic Talks
  • A Slight Change of Plans
  • Unladylike
  • Latter-Day Lesbian
  • Rationally Speaking Podcast
  • Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe
  • Penn’s Sunday School
  • Series

  • Atypical
  • Little Fires Everywhere
  • Steven Universe
  • The Office (U.K.)
  • Websites

  • Americans United for Separation of Church and State
  • Black Nonbelievers (BN)
  • Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

    Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

    Cover of Every Day is an Atheist Holidaybook

    Book Decription:

    The larger, louder half of legendary magic act Penn & Teller, and New York Times bestselling author of GOD, NO!, is back with a new collection of spiritual rants and hilarious ravings — the perfect year-round gift, when you consider that EVERY DAY IS AN ATHEIST HOLIDAY.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Evolution, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Happiness, HEALTH, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Lying, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Religious Thinking, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, This or That Thinking, and What Should Be

    Author: Penn Jillette

    Website: Link

    Publisher: Blue Rider Press

    Publishing Date: 2012-11-01

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    Hakeem Oluseyi

    Hakeem Oluseyi

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    Biography:

    Hakeem Muata Oluseyi is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, science communicator, author, actor, veteran, and humanitarian.

    In 2021, he published an autobiography titled: A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars co-authored with Joshua Horwitz.

    His best known scientific contributions are research on the transfer of mass and energy through the Sun’s atmosphere; the development of space-borne observatories for studying astrophysical plasmas and dark energy; and the development of transformative technologies in ultraviolet optics, detectors, computer chips, and ion propulsion.

    Main expertice: BEHAVIOR, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Exclusionary Behavior, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Numbers and Mathematics, Other People Exist, Planning, Race and Racism, Regrets, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, The Scientific Method, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Website: Link

    Works of Hakeem Oluseyi

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  • A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
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    A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars

    A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars

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    Book Decription:

    A NASA astrophysicist narrates his improbable journey from an impoverished childhood and an adolescence mired in drugs and crime to the nation’s top physics PhD program at Stanford in this inspiring coming-of-age memoir.

    Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James Edward Plummer was blessed with a genius I.Q. and a love of science. But in his community, a young bookworm quickly becomes a target for violence and abuse. As he struggles to survive his childhood in some of the toughest cities in the country, and his teenage years in the equally poor backwoods of Mississippi, James adopts the hybrid persona of a “gangsta nerd”–dealing weed in juke joints while winning state science fairs with computer programs that untangle the mysteries of Einstein’s relativity theory.

    Categories: Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Exclusionary Behavior, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Hidden Motives, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Lying, Numbers and Mathematics, Opinions, Other People Exist, Planning, Pride & Shame, Race and Racism, Regrets, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, The Scientific Method, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Hakeem Oluseyi

    Website: Link

    Publisher: Ballantine Books

    Publishing Date: 2021-06-15

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    God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

    God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

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    Book Decription:

    A scathingly funny reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments from the larger, louder half of world-famous magic duo Penn and Teller reveals an atheist’s experience in the world: from performing on the Vegas strip with Siegfried and Roy to children and fatherhood to his ongoing dialogue with proselytizers of the Christian Right and the joys of sex while scuba-diving, Penn has an outrageous sense of humor and a brilliantly entertaining opinion on, well, anything you care to think of.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Evolution, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Hidden Motives, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Lying, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Religious Thinking, Science, Societies, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Penn Jillette

    Website: Link

    Publisher: Simon & Schuster

    Publishing Date: 2011-08-16

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    Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

    Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

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    Book Decription:

    Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men’s and women’s brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as men’s brains aren’t wired for empathy, and women’s brains aren’t made to fix cars. She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between men’s and women’s behavior. Instead of a “male brain” and a “female brain,” Fine gives us a glimpse of plastic, mutable minds that are continuously influenced by cultural assumptions about gender.

    Delusions of Gender provides us with a much-needed corrective to the belief that men’s and women’s brains are intrinsically different–a belief that, as Fine shows with insight and humor–all too often works to the detriment of ourselves and our society.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Emotions, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Ideologies, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logic, Logical Ethics, Mental Health, Other People Exist, Pride & Shame, Relationships, Science, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Cordelia Fine

    Website: Link

    Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company

    Publishing Date: 2010-08-30

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    Issa Rae

    Issa Rae

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    Biography:

    Jo-Issa Rae Diop (born January 12, 1985), credited professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, and producer. Rae first garnered attention for her work on the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl. Since 2011, Rae has continued to develop her YouTube channel, which features various short films, web series, and other content created by black people.

    Rae has achieved wider recognition as the co-creator, co-writer, and star of the HBO television series Insecure (2016–2021), for which she has been nominated for multiple Golden Globes Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards. Her 2015 memoir, titled The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, became a New York Times best-seller. In 2018, Rae was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

    Rae has also starred in feature films, with roles in the drama The Hate U Give (2018), the fantasy comedy Little (2019), the romance The Photograph (2020), and the romantic comedy The Lovebirds (2020). She will also voice Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Rae provided the voice work for the short film Hair Love, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2020.

    Main expertice: BEHAVIOR, Biases, Change, Cultures, Emotions, Exclusionary Behavior, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Other People Exist, Race and Racism, Relationships, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Website: Link

    Works of Issa Rae

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  • The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
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    The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

    The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

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    Book Decription:

    In the bestselling tradition of Sloan Crosley’s I Was Told There’d Be Cake and Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, a collection of humorous essays on what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and black as cool.

    My name is “J” and I’m awkward—and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be. That someone was right. Where do I start?

    Being an introvert in a world that glorifies cool isn’t easy. But when Issa Rae, the creator of the Shorty Award–winning hit series “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,” is that introvert—whether she’s navigating love, work, friendships, or “rapping”—it sure is entertaining. Now, in this debut collection of essays written in her witty and self-deprecating voice, Rae covers everything from cybersexing in the early days of the Internet to deflecting unsolicited comments on weight gain, from navigating the perils of eating out alone and public displays of affection to learning to accept yourself—natural hair and all.

    A reflection on her own unique experiences as a cyber pioneer yet universally appealing, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is a book no one—awkward or cool, black, white, or other—will want to miss.

    Categories: All-or-Nothing Thinking, BEHAVIOR, Beliefs, Biases, Change, Cultures, Emotions, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Happiness, HEALTH, Hidden Motives, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Insincerity, KNOWLEDGE, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Mental Health, Negative Thinking, Opinions, Other People Exist, Race and Racism, Regrets, Relationships, Social Skills, Societies, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Author: Issa Rae

    Website: Link

    Publisher: 37 Ink

    Publishing Date: 2015-02-10

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    Gillian Jacobs

    Gillian Jacobs

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    Biography:

    Gillian MacLaren Jacobs (/ˈɡɪliən/) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Britta Perry on the NBC comedy series Community (2009–2015), Mickey Dobbs on the Netflix romantic comedy series Love (2016–2018) and Atom Eve on the Amazon animated series Invincible (2021). She had a recurring role as Mimi-Rose Howard on the fourth season of the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017) and has appeared in films such as Life Partners (2014), Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015), Don’t Think Twice (2016), Brother Nature (2016), Life of the Party (2018), Ibiza (2018), I Used to Go Here (2020), and The Fear Street Trilogy (2021).

    In February 2021, Jacobs and co-host Diona Reasonover premiered a STEM-focused podcast, called Periodic Talks on Stitcher Radio.

    Main expertice: All-or-Nothing Thinking, Ambiguity, BEHAVIOR, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Empathy, Environmental Science, Exclusionary Behavior, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logical Ethics, Other People Exist, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, The News Media, THINKING, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Website: Link

    Works of Gillian Jacobs

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    Movies/Videos

    Podcasts
  • Periodic Talks
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    Diona Reasonover

    Diona Reasonover

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    Biography:

    Diona Reasonover is an American actress. She starred as Charmaine Eskowitz in the television show Clipped. She portrays Kasie Hines in the crime drama series NCIS.

     

    Main expertice: BEHAVIOR, Biases, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Empathy, Exclusionary Behavior, Extreme Thinking, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, LGBTQ Issues, Logic, Logical Ethics, Other People Exist, Race and Racism, Relationships, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, Technology, The News Media, THINKING, This or That Thinking, Unhealthy Behavior, and What Should Be

    Website: Link

    Works of Diona Reasonover

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  • Periodic Talks
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    Periodic Talks

    Periodic Talks with Diona Reasonover and Gillian Jacobs

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    Podcast Decription:

    What gets you curious? Virtual experiences, celestial bodies, water worlds or maybe just the tiniest mysteries inside your brain? The endlessly curious and curiously funny, Gillian Jacobs (Community, Netflix’s LOVE) and Diona Reasonover (NCIS), step off set to go on tangents with real-life astronauts, astrophysicists, science artists, mathematician-types and other really smart people that investigate what seems impossible.

    Categories: BEHAVIOR, Change, Complex Realities, Cultures, Empathy, Environmental Science, Evolution, Family, Fear of the Unknown, Freewill, Friendships, Gender Roles, Independent Thinking, Individuality, Information/Facts, KNOWLEDGE, Learning, Learning from Failures, Logic, Logical Ethics, Other People Exist, Planning, Race and Racism, Relationships, Science, Social Skills, Societies, Teachers and Mentors, Technology, The News Media, The Scientific Method, THINKING, and What Should Be

    Host:

  • Diona Reasonover
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  • Gillian Jacobs
  • Website: Link

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