Dawkins’ new book impresses the kids
With his new book The Magic of Reality, Richard Dawkins wants to introduce children to the wonders of science. He gets a resounding thumbs up from Manjit Kumar's resident young…
Science & Technology
Brain rot
What is neuroscientist Susan Greenfield on about? asks Sally Feldman
Book review: Barefoot into Cyberspace by Becky Hogge
Bill Thompson embraces the digital revolution
Book review: Humanity 2.0 by Steve Fuller
Angela Saini is frustrated by Steve Fuller
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