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His enemies are purveyors of grand theories based on thin evidence, writes Philip Delves Broughton
David Bowie’s island retreat available for rent; Galápagos tour with Richard Dawkins; Italian supercar show
From Gillian Tett’s ‘The Silo Effect’ to an interview with Tracy Chevalier
Celebrity looms larger than science in Richard Dawkins’s second volume of memoirs
We need to find way to spread ideas and pictures without web users risking bill, writes Helen Lewis
Retweeting compliments may seem polite but it makes me hit the unfollow button
Hundredfold increase in effort needed to prevent catastrophe
The 94-year-old moral philosopher talks to Peter Aspden about scientific arrogance and impending ‘catastrophe’
‘Secular society underestimates the power of religion, which has great positive energy’
To bring about change, it is criticism delivered in person by random strangers that counts
Clive Cookson finds some surprising similarities between Britain’s two most famous scientists. A review of ‘My Brief History’ and ‘An Appetite for Wonder’
An authoritative yet accessible ‘prequel and sequel’ of evolution
Primo Levi’s radical chemistry-inspired memoir ‘The Periodic Table’ paved the way for popular science writing
Skimming the history books for lessons in invective is not a constructive
Atheism is a non-belief. Extremism in the name of something that doesn’t exist feels a bit silly
An American physicist writes an eloquent guide to our expanding universe
Sipping margaritas with Richard Dawkins on the sideline of a Sri Lanka literary fest, a glorious Albania book tour and the sequel to ‘Sashenka’
Godlessness is the last big taboo in the US, where non-believers face discrimination and isolation
Religion may have lost much of its power to explain our modern world but we still crave its emotional satisfactions
Rupert Sheldrake presents a challenge to science’s core beliefs in ‘The Science Delusion’
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