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'Part of the problem with science communication is that it flatters the audience. People want to read stuff or listen to stuff that makes them feel like they’ve understood something. That’s not what teachers have to do' newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6260

A new book from Penguin Books UK gives voice to the Chinese intellectuals hitting the state where it hurts: its grip on the nation's memory newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6259

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Justin Brierley wants to convince us that belief in God is on the rise. The problem is, he doesn’t offer any evidence newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6258

China has struggled with soft power, but the current regime is committed to exporting its view of the world newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6263

How the rush for lithium is harming Indigenous communities newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6255

Humans are expensive and create trouble. So why bother sending them to space? newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6256

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Investment in lie detector technology always rises at times of political and social tension, writes Amit Katwala.

In the 1950s, the targets were suspected communists and homosexuals; in the 2000s it was terrorists. Today, it’s asylum seekers and migrants newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6253

'Most parents will teach their kids to count, to sing, to read ... and yet when it comes to science, an awful lot of parents would lack the confidence to even broach the subject'. That's where a new book from Scribe UK comes in newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6260

China's “underground historians” – including writers, academics, filmmakers and artists – have faced crackdowns and censorship, but continue to challenge the government in a country where control over historical memory is a key tool of state power newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6259

Why science needs metaphor newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6266

'A lot of Europeans and Brits are missing the [point about the] deep, deep anti-democratic forces in the United States, and how powerful they have always been' HowTheLightGetsIn Festival newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6262/…

Gen Z better remember who raised them... newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6264