By Khaled Diab Despite the paranoid conspiracy theories and fear-mongering of the extreme right, cultural diversity is a beautiful and wondrous thing. Monday 1 March 2021 Belgium’s statistical agency Statbel has released the first official survey of the diversity of…
Tag: genetics
The ghost of conflicts past, present and future
With all the wars and conflicts raging in the Middle East, collective trauma carries very serious consequences for the region.
Not so simply red
Mick Hucknall’s admission that he slept with thousands of women shatters one ginger stereotype, but discrimination against redheads goes way back.
Natural born warriors
Does scientific evidence that war is hardwired into human society mean that we are doomed to live in perpetual conflict?
Promises of immortality
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?
Survival of the nicest
The emerging notion that genes can be ‘selfless’ as well as ‘selfish’ suggests that working for the greater good is natural.
