{"id":4972,"date":"2019-07-14T10:59:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T16:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2019-07-14T10:59:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T16:59:02","slug":"episode-55-increase-your-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/episode-55-increase-your-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 55 &#8211; Increase Your Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9761\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4972-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/secularhubcast\/Episode_55_-_Increase_Your_Liberty.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/secularhubcast\/Episode_55_-_Increase_Your_Liberty.mp3\">https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/secularhubcast\/Episode_55_-_Increase_Your_Liberty.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links 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aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4974\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/REX-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/REX-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/REX-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/REX-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/REX-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">REX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Liberty is a tricky subject to talk about.\u00a0 It&#8217;s complex and personal and in some ways lends itself to magical thinking.\u00a0 It&#8217;s as if it somehow pervades the universe or we&#8217;re endowed by some creator.<\/p>\n<p>But really it&#8217;s just a concept.\u00a0 Can we think about it scientifically?\u00a0 Can we analyse a sample in a petri dish and watch it grow?\u00a0 In this episode we consider how you can increase your liberty<\/p>\n<p>HOST, EDITOR:\u00a0 Jesse Gilbertson<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>We started with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/founding-docs\/bill-of-rights-transcript\">Bill of Rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I referred to incarceration in US as being over 2 million souls.\u00a0 The jibes with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Incarceration_in_the_United_States\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjs.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/p17_sum.pdf\">Bureau of Justice Statistics<\/a> measures it a little different, and came up with a different result<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=92vuuZt7wak\">John Oliver<\/a> said about net neutrality.\u00a0 I love him.\u00a0 It&#8217;s too late, but still funny as hell<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">\n<p>Logo Design: Terry Kirkham<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">The views and opinions expressed are those of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Secular Hub.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">***<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">The Secular HubCast: The Voice of Denver\u2019s Secular Hub.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">Become a member of the Secular Hub today!<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 1em\">Subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCw6r0_l8I4cZm0ohuUT2hyQ?view_as=subscriber\">YouTube Channel<\/a><br \/>\nFollow the Secular Hub on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SecularHub\/\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\nFollow the Secular Hub on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecularHub\">@SecularHub<\/a><br \/>\nMusic: <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/argofox\/a-himitsu-adventures\">A Himitsu &#8211; Adventures<\/a> (unedited, used under Creative Commons License)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty is a tricky subject to talk about.\u00a0 It&#8217;s complex and personal and in some ways lends itself to magical thinking.\u00a0 It&#8217;s as if it somehow pervades the universe or we&#8217;re endowed by some creator. But really it&#8217;s just a concept.\u00a0 Can we think about it scientifically?\u00a0 Can we analyse a sample in a petri &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/episode-55-increase-your-liberty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 55 &#8211; Increase Your Liberty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":4974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,3,14],"tags":[483,485,486,446,445,497,484,494,482,488,490,496,487,492,500,495,493,499,489,498,491,179],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discussion","category-our-community","category-podcast","tag-1st","tag-4th","tag-8th","tag-abortion","tag-alabama","tag-amazon","tag-amendment","tag-bay","tag-bill-of-rights","tag-capitol-punishment","tag-crisis","tag-dick-cheney","tag-edward-snowden","tag-enhanced-interrogation","tag-freedom","tag-george-bush","tag-guantanamo","tag-liberty","tag-migrant","tag-net-neutrality","tag-torture","tag-trump","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secularhub.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}