Goodbye, Dave! The Cartoon History of Humanism Signs Off
Well, folks, it looks like Dave’s journey through the “Cartoon History of Humanism” is coming to an end. (And let me just say that we here at TheHumanist.com are holding back the sad tears.) Written... Read More
Bill Nye Saves the World: “It’s Not Magic, it’s Science!”
Bill Nye’s classic program, Bill Nye the Science Guy, was a childhood staple of many millennials. Some of the best days in school were the ones where a television was rolled into the classroom and... Read More
TV Review: Reza Aslan’s Believer
The tone of Reza Aslan’s new television series Believer is a curious mixture of snobbishness and inclusivity. In it, the author and religious scholar immerses himself in some of the more markedly idiosyncratic religious faiths of the... Read More
The Comics Section: Self-Serving “Revelations,” Egg Hunts, and Impulse Items
Your favorites are back! Check out the latest from Jesus and Mo, The Atheist Pig, and Raging Pencils.
Life Without a Spine
Taxonomists have described more than a million species ... divided into more than twenty phyla. Of this plethora, vertebrates represent only part of one phylum, and a mere 40,000 species or so. —Stephen Jay Gould... Read More
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
BOOK BY MARK O'CONNELL DOUBLEDAY, 2017 256 PP.; $26.95 To Be a Machine by versatile literary journalist Mark O’Connell is a travelogue about the author’s experiences among the “transhumanists,” i.e., those who believe that immortality... Read More
Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony
BOOK BY MATTHEW PARKER THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS/ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 2017 304 PP.; $26.99 Were North America's original thirteen British colonies the first ones relinquished by their mighty mother country? Most Americans probably smugly believe that’s... Read More