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🚨 Our Winter 2025 issue is out today! It's all about how to stay smart in a changing world.
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Nia DaCosta's "Hedda" courts controversy with a fresh, bold take on Ibsen's classic
Nia DaCosta's "Hedda" courts controversy with a fresh, bold take on Ibsen's classic
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November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
✨New online:
Nia DaCosta's "Hedda" courts controversy with a fresh, bold take on Ibsen's classic
Nia DaCosta's "Hedda" courts controversy with a fresh, bold take on Ibsen's classic
A good time to revisit @jamesrball.com's provoking piece on why the child benefit cap strikes at the heart of the big questions: who are the Labour party, and what is politics for?
What’s the point of politics?
Labour’s feud over child benefits points to a deeper question: how to balance strategy with doing the right thing
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November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A good time to revisit @jamesrball.com's provoking piece on why the child benefit cap strikes at the heart of the big questions: who are the Labour party, and what is politics for?
Admit it – you're glued to your phone, like everybody else. Literacy is plummeting, and universities are under attack. Are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming, discovering new ways to be smart?
Find out in our latest issue:
Find out in our latest issue:
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November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Admit it – you're glued to your phone, like everybody else. Literacy is plummeting, and universities are under attack. Are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming, discovering new ways to be smart?
Find out in our latest issue:
Find out in our latest issue:
Give us your nominations: We want to interview the *freethinkers of today*, people cutting through the swamp of propaganda and standing for truth and integrity. We've recently spoken to @naomialderman.bsky.social and @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social and @stephenfry.bsky.social ... who next?
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Give us your nominations: We want to interview the *freethinkers of today*, people cutting through the swamp of propaganda and standing for truth and integrity. We've recently spoken to @naomialderman.bsky.social and @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social and @stephenfry.bsky.social ... who next?
Science today is plagued by fake papers, profit incentives and unreliable studies. Meet the science sleuths bringing the truth to light
Rise of the science sleuths
Why are so many scientific studies impossible to replicate? Meet the brave researchers bringing the truth to light
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November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Science today is plagued by fake papers, profit incentives and unreliable studies. Meet the science sleuths bringing the truth to light
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November 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Get your weekend reading sorted - pick up a copy of the brand new edition of New Humanist today!
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What is cyberchondria?
Inside the world of health anxiety
It's Covid season again. Two books have lessons on how to navigate health anxiety
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November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
What is cyberchondria?
🧠Remember, our brand new Winter issue - "How to stay smart in a changing world" - is out now!
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November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
🧠Remember, our brand new Winter issue - "How to stay smart in a changing world" - is out now!
Read it this weekend by subscribing to the digital edition for just £10:
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Two massive black holes have collided in a merger so big that it was, by our current models, theoretically impossible.
Marcus Chown explains this "spectacular cosmological event"
Marcus Chown explains this "spectacular cosmological event"
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November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Two massive black holes have collided in a merger so big that it was, by our current models, theoretically impossible.
Marcus Chown explains this "spectacular cosmological event"
Marcus Chown explains this "spectacular cosmological event"
Who really runs Britain?
Book review: Born to Rule
We're always hearing about the "elite", but what does the data tell us about who runs Britain?
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November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Who really runs Britain?
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Stay smart in a changing world! New Humanist's Winter 2025 edition is out now
From the rise of AI to attacks on universities, are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming and discovering new ways to be smart?
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November 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We have to now make a choice to “work the muscle” of our brains, just like we hit the gym where once we laboured in the fields. Beat the brainrot! Start by buying this issue on our website or at the shops 🧠
🚨 Our Winter 2025 issue is out today! It's all about how to stay smart in a changing world.
Let's take a look inside... 🧵
Let's take a look inside... 🧵
newhumanist.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🚨 Our Winter 2025 issue is out today! It's all about how to stay smart in a changing world.
Let's take a look inside... 🧵
Let's take a look inside... 🧵
Country music has long shed its Bible-bashing image. Today, bluegrass is helping to heal America’s deep divides
Finger-pickin’ good
Country music has long shed its Bible-bashing image. Today, bluegrass is helping to heal America’s deep divides
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November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Country music has long shed its Bible-bashing image. Today, bluegrass is helping to heal America’s deep divides
Are we all getting stupider, or discovering new ways to think? Our "intelligence" edition brings together neurobiologists, philosophers, tech experts and more to discuss and debate how to stay smart in a changing world. OUT TOMORROW
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Are we all getting stupider, or discovering new ways to think? Our "intelligence" edition brings together neurobiologists, philosophers, tech experts and more to discuss and debate how to stay smart in a changing world. OUT TOMORROW
A new novel probes identity, asking whether it is tied to place, biology, “spirit” or the people who raise us
Book review: Fire Exit
Morgan Talty's debut novel is a powerful exploration of family, heritage and identity
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November 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A new novel probes identity, asking whether it is tied to place, biology, “spirit” or the people who raise us
"It is only through analysing the stories that shape our world that we can control them and retain agency"
Book review: The Narrative Brain
Stories shape our world. A cognitive scientist explains how to understand our narrative brain and regain some agency
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November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"It is only through analysing the stories that shape our world that we can control them and retain agency"
Letters from Palestine
Letters from Palestine's students
Book review: "We Are Still Here: An Anthology of Resilience, Grief, and Unshattered Hope from Gaza’s University Students"
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November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Letters from Palestine
The "open science" movement is about more than access to papers - it demands deep, cultural change throughout the research process
#science #stem
#science #stem
Rise of the science sleuths
Why are so many scientific studies impossible to replicate? Meet the brave researchers bringing the truth to light
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November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Admit it – you're glued to your phone, like everybody else. Literacy is plummeting, and universities are under attack.
Are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming, discovering new ways to be smart?
Find out in our new issue, out this week! newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe
Are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming, discovering new ways to be smart?
Find out in our new issue, out this week! newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Admit it – you're glued to your phone, like everybody else. Literacy is plummeting, and universities are under attack.
Are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming, discovering new ways to be smart?
Find out in our new issue, out this week! newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe
Are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming, discovering new ways to be smart?
Find out in our new issue, out this week! newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe
Morgan Talty's debut novel is a powerful exploration of family, heritage and identity
Book review: Fire Exit
Morgan Talty's debut novel is a powerful exploration of family, heritage and identity
newhumanist.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Morgan Talty's debut novel is a powerful exploration of family, heritage and identity
Are you constantly monitoring your body? Two books explore the drivers of health anxiety
Inside the world of health anxiety
It's Covid season again. Two books have lessons on how to navigate health anxiety
newhumanist.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Are you constantly monitoring your body? Two books explore the drivers of health anxiety
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November 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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On Nasa's sexist history and how to talk to aliens
Sexism in space
How should we represent humankind to aliens? With Pioneer 10 and 11, Nasa fell short. Next time, we must do better
newhumanist.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
On Nasa's sexist history and how to talk to aliens
Last year, the UK opened the world's first government metascience unit. What's it all about?
Rise of the science sleuths
Why are so many scientific studies impossible to replicate? Meet the brave researchers bringing the truth to light
newhumanist.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Last year, the UK opened the world's first government metascience unit. What's it all about?