The Contemporary Poetry and Music Circle was hugely influential in the post-war years. Its legacy is finally being unearthed ...

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

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Bill Cooke is the author of The Blasphemy Depot: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association and six other works on the history of freethought. He teaches philosophy in Warrington.

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Rory Fenton is a former Catholic who is now an atheist and humanist. He is a physics student at Imperial College London, and Dialogue Officer for the British Humanist Association.