How Science Can Inspire the Next Generation | Monica Bellizoiu on Humanism & Critical Thinking

Can science, critical thinking and education help build a more informed and compassionate society? How can digital tools inspire the next generation to embrace curiosity and reason? In this episode of Humanism Now, James is joined by Monica Bellizoiu, Chief Executive of the Romanian Secular Humanist Association (ASUR), for a fascinating conversation about promoting science, secularism and humanist values in one of Europe's most religious countries. Monica shares her journey into humanism, the challenges of advocating for secular values in Romania, and how innovative projects like the Science Calendar and Science Calendar App are helping thousands of students discover science every day. Together, they discuss scientific literacy, critical thinking, freedom of thought, education, digital innovation and why promoting curiosity may be one of the most effective ways to strengthen humanism for future generations. In this episode we discuss: Monica Bellizoiu's journey into humanism Humanism in Romania The Romanian Secular Humanist Association (ASUR) The Science Calendar project The Science Calendar App Promoting scientific literacy Critical thinking and education Freedom of thought and secularism Digital tools for humanist advocacy Mental health for non-believers Building the future of humanism Whether you're interested in humanism, science, education, psychology, philosophy, secularism, critical thinking or technology, this conversation offers practical insights into creating a more informed, compassionate and evidence-based society. 📌 Originally recorded and published in 2024. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Learn More 🌍 Romanian Secular Humanist Association (ASUR) https://www.asur.ro/ 🌍 Science Calendar https://calendar.stiintaazi.ro/ 🌍 Humanists International Freedom of Thought Report https://fot.humanists.international/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Listen to Humanism Now 🎙 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4ZL6qAJ... 🍎 Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎧 All podcast platforms https://humanismnow.buzzsprout.com/22... ▶️ YouTube    / @humanismnowpod   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Support Humanism Now ☕ Support the podcast https://ko-fi.com/humanismnowpod ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow Humanism Now ▶️ YouTube    / @humanismnowpod   🎵 TikTok   / humanismnowpod   📸 Instagram   / humanismnowpod   📘 Facebook   / 61557338678349   🧵 Threads https://www.threads.net/@humanismnowpod 𝕏 X https://x.com/HumanismNowPod 🦋 BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/humanismnowpod 🌍 Humanism Now is produced by Humanise Live. Thinking of starting a podcast? Visit https://www.humanise.live/ 🎶 Music: Blossom by Light Prism ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 We'd love to hear your thoughts. Can science and critical thinking help strengthen democracy and secular values? What role should education play in promoting curiosity and evidence-based thinking? Share your thoughts in the comments. If you enjoyed this episode, please like, subscribe and share to help more people discover thoughtful conversations about humanism, science, education and critical thinking. #humanismnow #monicabellizoiu #humanism #science #criticalthinking #education #secularism #romania #scienceeducation #podcast