From New Humanist, in 2005 Russian artist Anna Alchuk was publicly vilified and put on trial for her involvement in the Caution:Religion! exhibition — three years later she drowned herself; visiting Israel just weeks before the current Gaza conflict, Sally Feldman found that rising religious bigotry is one of the biggest barriers to peace; thirty years after the revolution consumerism and political apathy dominate Iran, but a new generation may change that; Theodore Dalrymple on why being faith-less is no excuse for rewriting history; here are the Bad Faith Awards 2008. From Edge, does the empirical nature of science contradict the revelatory nature of faith? From America, a look at why a little unbelief is not always a bad thing; and a review of Sense of the Faithful: How American Catholics Live Their Faith by Jerome P. Baggett. For decades, it was the scourge of the environmental movement, but now the greens are going nuclear. A warming climate is freeing up the country’s resources in previously frozen expanses of land and sea, and Greenlanders are bestirring themselves to seek independence from Denmark. Safe, but also sorry: Security expert Bruce Schneier talks about privacy and property in the information state. The academic and the almost-absurd coexist in "pleasantly mad" fashion at an Oxford symposium that takes a keen interest in aspects of food overlooked by mainstream culture.