How to talk about death
Can the growing number of Death Cafés help us to accept the inevitable?
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Leaving the black church
Audrey Simmons, a key member of the Association of Black Humanists, on the challenges faced by black apostates and the need to ensure humanism is welcoming to all.
A manifesto against the apocalypse
Srećko Horvat's latest book is a passionate call for a new radical internationalism.
"We need to make sure that lives are valued fairly"
Q&A; with Howard Steven Friedman, author of "Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life".
AI antibiotics
The threat of antibiotic resistance is looming, but artificial intelligence may show the way forward
Wonderchicken
Evidence of a modern bird species living side by side with dinosaurs has been uncovered
Atheist Mubarak Bala may face a death sentence
The president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria has been arrested on charges of "blasphemy" against Islam
What makes us who we are? The summer 2020 New Humanist
Out now – featuring Cal Flyn on designer babies, Giovanni Tiso on the great DNA grab and Ayo Awokoya on inherited trauma. Is the future written in our genes?
Call witchcraft belief in Africa by its name: superstition
The campaign against witch allegation has been hampered by evangelical agendas and mistaken ideas around cultural sensitivity.
Scotland to decriminalise blasphemy
The belated repeal will send a message to the world that criticising religion should never be a crime
Video fatigue
Why are video calls so taxing for the brain?
No matter
We exist because of an imbalance between particles and anti-particles. How did it come about?
Living bricks
What if you could combine the structural integrity of a brick with the ability to self-replicate and grow?
"Men are biologically fragile"
Q&A; with Sharon Moalem, author of "The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women"
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Blaming Muslims for the virus is playing with fire
India’s Hindu nationalist government is using Covid-19 to ramp up already dangerous levels of Islamophobia