Now the ultra-disciplined approach – often referred to as championing “high behavioural standards,” “strong leadership” and a ...

It’s the start of the rainy season in Sierra Leone, the west African country known for its beautiful beaches and tropical ...

Massimo Pigliucci is the author of Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (University of Chicago Press). His essays can be found at Rationally Speaking ...

The Rationalist Association is independent, irreverent & non-profit. We are supported by our members.

In Heresy, Catherine Nixey strips these pretensions away with a complete (but scholarly) lack of mercy. Her focus is on ...

As Ernest Hemingway famously claimed, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry ...

Feliciana Herrera, Indigenous leader of the Ixil people in Guatemala, will always remember spending weeks – both day and night, through sunshine and pouring rain – protesting outside the headquarters ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics for “aperture synthesis”. This is the technique of using several radio dishes in concert to mimic, or “synthesise”, the ...