genetics - The Chronikler

White extinction and the mythical menace of multiculturalism

Despite the paranoid conspiracy theories and fear-mongering of the extreme right, cultural diversity is a beautiful and wondrous thing.

With all the wars and conflicts raging in the Middle East, collective trauma carries very serious consequences for the region.

Mick Hucknall’s admission that he slept with thousands of women shatters one ginger stereotype, but discrimination against redheads goes way back.

Does scientific evidence that war is hardwired into human society mean that we are doomed to live in perpetual conflict?

Religion has been promising us eternal life after death for millennia, can science deliver us immortality right here on earth – and do we want it to?

The emerging notion that genes can be ‘selfless’ as well as ‘selfish’ suggests that working for the greater good is natural.