dawn chorus · Simon Armitage · the invention of the telescope · huge, sprawling collaborations · Withnail & I · book smells · re-assembling Darwin’s research notes · converting walks into words · Daniel Dennett · writing letters · humanist politics · dentistry with stone tools · analysing penguin poo · Melissa Harrison · Robert Macfarlane · swallows
Writing tagged: ‘humanism’
‘Spiritual’ won’t do
In which I seek a better word to describe a profoundly uplifting sensation.
An atheist somehow manages to tell right from wrong
To think of all the deliciously immoral acts I could have been getting up to today, if only it had occurred to me I needn’t be impeded by any sense of right or wrong.
Book review: ‘Humanism’ by Stephen Law
A very short introduction.