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?
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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
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"
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
Learning from the human eye
Learning from our eyes and their fantastic detector systems has led to a breakthrough that could strengthen border security.
“Reading trans memoirs I was struck by the absence of any sense of history”
Q&A with Barry Reay, author of "Trans America: A Counter History".
O Lord, banish the virus!
The Covid-19 pandemic presents a profound conundrum for religious leaders around the world.
Why is the average human body cooling down?
A decline in the average temperature of the human body could help us understand astonishing changes to our health over the generations.
A new twist in the human genome story
The latest DNA sequencing has revealed that human history is more complex than we thought.
“Human travel history is pitted with errors: conflict, invasion, disease”
Q&A with Emily Thomas, author of "The Meaning of Travel".
Read in case of panic
The New Humanist team brings you a selection of pieces from the archive designed to keep you sane during the pandemic.