Space for laughs
As comedian Helen Keen’s Radio 4 series on the history of rocket science begins, she tells Matthew Adams why it’s a subject with room for the serious and the absurd
Science & Technology
Kitchen sink drama
On International Women's Day Sally Feldman asks is it a coincidence that women are being driven back into the home?
Count yourself out
Winston Fletcher warns that the question asking your religion, included again in this year’s census, is designed to distort
The god confusion
In trying to make religion sound more logical and scientific, are educated Indians actually having a crisis of faith? asks Angela Saini
Blood and guts
Dublin Science Gallery’s latest exhibition Visceral crosses the boundaries between art and biology. Owen Hatherley pays a stomach-churning visit
Things that go bump in the night
Why do people think they can see ghosts, ghoulies and gods? Richard Wiseman explains
Editorial: it just ain’t natural
We shouldn't allow myth and dogma to cloud rational evidence-based argument
A many splendour’d thing
Moons and Junes, hearts, diamonds and red, red roses – this Valentine's Day, what could be more humanist than passionate romance? But, warns Sally Feldman, it may also be a…
Behind the couch
Was Freud really a rationalist? Lie back and let Alfred Tauber convince you
Book review: The God Instinct by Jesse Bering
Do we have innate religious tendencies? Jake Wallis Simons turns to a new book to find out