New Humanist

🚨 Our Summer 2025 issue is out today! As people across the globe respond to uncertainty by embracing division and dogma, we explore how to hold on to our shared humanity. Let's take a look inside... 🧵 newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6416/…

🎂This year marks New Humanist's 140th anniversary - and to celebrate, we're highlighting iconic pieces from our archive. Today: E. M. Forster's 1963 speech to the Cambridge Humanists, "How I lost my faith", which you can read (or listen to) here: reader.exacteditions.com/issues/64952/p…

Is the Universe shaped like a doughnut? A team of scientists are using supercomputers to try and answer that question newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6437

The Bristol estates generating their own energy newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6434

A new book tackles an old debate - the battle between scientific and religious beliefs newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6439

"Many of the battles being fought today over supposed 'woke' culture in arts institutions and the media were first raised back in the 1980s" newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6432

Always plugged in? Here's why our brains need silence sometimes newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6430

What shape is the Universe? newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6437

Why pessimists are best at finding hope in the darkness ✏️@danielcallcut newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6444

If you feel your life lacks purpose, you're not alone. In this fascinating long-read, we explore the psychology behind this feeling newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6443

"Speculative whiteness has deep roots in science fiction" newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6438

Meet the reluctant sceptic with 1.3 million YouTube subscribers newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6436

Behind the glossy pictures of @TheFaceMagazine is a story about the political and economic dissonance of the 1980s newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6432

Are we experiencing a "crisis of meaning"? And can therapy help? newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6443

Boredom may be a key ingredient in creativity newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6430

CBT has become the dominant form of psychotherapy in the UK and US - but it has limits newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6443

If you read sci-fi, you might want to read this newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6438

Across Britain, local residents are taking the lead on generating their own clean energy newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6434

What's driving the 80s nostalgia? newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6432

What children's games around the world can teach us newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6428

A new book unpicks the complex, deep-rooted relationship between science fiction and the alt-right newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6438