‘F*** it, think freely!’ Interview with Brian Cox
Introduction Brian Cox was born in Dundee in 1946 and has been a star of stage and screen…
Rescuing our future scientists and engineers from quitting before they start
In my capacity as a science educator and speaker, I once sat across a table in front of…
From stardust to sentience: How scientific literacy can improve your ability to foster gratitude
It’s not uncommon to hear religious people refer to faith as a source of comfort. In fact, there…
Books from Bob’s Library #4: The ‘Freethinker’—over a century of issues now available as a digital archive
Books From Bob’s Library is a semi-regular series in which freethought book collector and National Secular Society historian…
80 years on from Schrödinger’s ‘What Is Life?’, philosophy of biology needs rescuing from radicals
What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger was a seminal work in philosophy of biology. Published in 1944, this…
The evils of feudalism in Pakistan: a personal and political narrative
Pakistan embodies both modernity and pre-modernity, in that it is a nuclear power with a feudal social system.…