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Alien sunset Vol.127, Issue 3 (May/June 2012): It's dusk, but not as we know it. Marcus Chown explains
Endgame: Whine dining Vol.127, Issue 3 (May/June 2012): Laurie Taylor has his very own euro crisis
Q&A: Shazia Mirza Vol.127, Issue 3 (May/June 2012): Taboo-busting comic Shazia Mirza has combined an international reputation for close-to-the-bone gags with a belief in Islam. But now she faces her greatest challenge as she submits to New Humanist’s very own inquisition
Geeks of the world unite Web Exclusive (May 2012): Mark Henderson’s new book calls for the pro-science lobby to get political. Adam Smith meets him
Curiouser and curiouser Vol.127, Issue 3 (May/June 2012): It means both inquisitive and odd, and drives human discovery. Philip Ball traces a curious history
Book Review: Seven Years by Peter Stamm Vol.127, Issue 3 (May/June 2012): As coldly stylish as a Corbusier apartment building, with a narrator who is a "pillock", it might be the best novel of the year. Will Wiles is torpedoed by Peter Stamm's latest.
The passion of the bishop Vol.127, Issue 3 (May/June 2012): After years of struggle with his faith and dispair at the church's in-fighting and repressive attitude to sex, fomer bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway left religion behind. Caspar Melville hears his confession
Is your brain right-wing? Vol.127, Issue 3 (May/June 2012): Political differences have their origin in the way we are wired, according to research in cognitive neuroscience. It’s offering a whole new perspective on politics that we ignore at our peril, argues Chris Mooney
Rites & responsibilities Vol.127, Issue 3 (May/June 2012): The appalling case of Kristy Bamu, tortured to death for being a witch, suggests belief in malign spirits is becoming widespread in Britain. Sarah Ditum explores what is being done to protect the vulnerable
Blueprint Web Exclusive (May 2012): Manjit Kumar talks to George Dyson, author of Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, about the fathers of the digital age

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Q&A: Shazia Mirza: Taboo-busting comic Shazia Mirza has combined an international reputation for close-to-the-bone gags with a belief in Islam. But now she faces her greatest challenge as she submits to New Humanist’s very own inquisition
Curiouser and curiouser: It means both inquisitive and odd, and drives human discovery. Philip Ball traces a curious history
The death of American secularism: Who is America's leading secularist? Thats right, there isn't one. And if someone effective doesn't start speaking up for the seperation of church and state soon, it could be lost for good, argues Jacques Berlinerblau