In just three years, 162 debut feature films emerged from a new generation of filmmakers, who created energetic, ...

At the time, it was thought that the Earth had seven climate zones, each one determined astrologically. By 1400 or so, Sir ...

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Jason Burke's history of "the extremists who hijacked the 1970s" is a rollicking tale – but also a cautionary fable ...

This piece accompanies Marcus Chown's feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of all is ...

1956: The Year that Changed Britain (Biteback) by Francis Beckett and Tony Russell According to Francis Beckett and Tony Russell, the lasting legacy of 1956 was “the decline of deference”. In their ...

This article is a preview from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. I’d arranged to meet the sorceress at 4pm, but I was running late. Hurrying past ...

This article is a preview from the Summer 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Religious disbelief is viewed with alarm in most Arab countries. Two government ...

Buddhism is often seen as the acceptable face of religion, lacking a celestial dictator and full of Eastern wisdom. But Dale DeBakcsy, who worked for nine years in a Buddhist school, says it's time to ...

This article is a preview from the Autumn 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. In a 2008 article in Wired magazine entitled “The End of Theory”, Chris Anderson ...

Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire (Allen Lane) by Priya Satia Priya Satia begins Time’s Monster with a statement: historians, she says, are above all storytellers. At first ...