Book review: Humanity 2.0 by Steve Fuller
Angela Saini is frustrated by Steve Fuller
Science & Technology
Quiz: a tea-time teaser
Rational thought is required in the humanist tearooms, in Quizmaster Chris Maslanka's latest New Humanist quiz
Crack up
Marcus Chown wonders if there is life beneath Europa's icy surface
Briefing: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People
Adam Rutherford remembers getting atheists reciting the Lord's Prayer at last year's rationalist jamboree
Quiz: Come on, you’ve urn-ed it
It's pot luck for bankers' bonuses with New Humanist quizmaster Chris Maslanka
Book review: The Matter With Us by John Rawles
Richard Norman explores the matter of the human predicament
Undiscovered
A misreading of science has persuaded us that we are no more than our evolved brains. But, argues Raymond Tallis, a more expansive philosophy of humanity is mounting a fight-back
Spiders from Mars
What causes the dust devils on the Red Planet’s surface? asks Marcus Chown
Moon dance
More than just a pretty face, our closest companion in space could be the reason we are here at all, argues John Gribbin
Preying on sadness
Psychics do have special powers – turning grief into money, says AL Kennedy