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New Humanist A quarterly journal of ideas, science and culture from the Rationalist Association

Autumn 2014

What do we really know about the universe?

Marcus Chown separates fact from fiction

RATIONALIST a s s o c i a t i o n

Fatema Ahmed The strange world of Muriel Spark Samira Shackle What’s been going on in Birmingham schools?

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