Professor Justin Smith-Ruiu on how magic mushrooms gave him a deeper understanding of ideas he’d studied for decades ...

Tse explores similar themes in City Like Water (also translated by Bruce), the first and longest piece in her 2020 short ...

Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works (Princeton) by Helen Pearson Helen Pearson’s Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works tells a story that is at once reassuring and ...

Now that I am in my late eighties, I have sadly become used to losing good friends of a similar age. But the news of the death of Caspar Melville tragically fails to fit that pattern. For Caspar died ...

If you feel pressure about your body, you’re not alone. Women have always had it bad – but now the health and beauty industries are coming for men, too. And the pressures are constantly deepening. In ...

The “茶, चाय, Tea” exhibition is at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, London, until 7 July When at home in west London, there’s nothing better than sitting down with a mug of builder’s tea. That said, a ...

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 ...

Sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s prescient genius produced a series of classic stories, collected together as I, Robot, in which intelligent machines are confronted with existential issues. However, even ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. Death is a fundamental feature of our lives. Fear of death has been present in most cultures for a very long time. It is a basic ...

Female longing is having a cultural moment and midlife women are taking the limelight. Confounding societal expectations that older women should fade into sexual invisibility or conform to a selfless ...

Olga Koch is a Russian-British comedian. Her award-winning debut show “Fight” told the wild story of how her father briefly served as deputy prime minister of Russia in the 1990s, under President ...

Epstein hosted a dinner at Harvard in 2004, with attendees including evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers (centre right). Credit: Alamy Stock Photo It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the ...