Healthy, happy and tropical – world's fastest-growing cities demand our attention
Apr 01, 2019 17:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
What does it take to be a happy and healthy city? In any city, myriad factors go into the mix and of course we are not dealing with just one kind of city. But, due to the world history of colonisation, models are still...
An unexpected pathway to treating neurodegenerative diseases
Apr 01, 2019 17:24 pm UTC| Health
Scientific success stories can sometimes occur when therapies being studied for one disease can be used to treat another. In the case of the drug we have been studying in my lab, this is especially important because it...
Medicaid work requirements: Is there a path forward that could help the poor, not harm them?
Apr 01, 2019 17:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Law
Just days after the 9-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administrations defining accomplishments continues to dominate American politics. President Trump enthusiastically declared on March 26, 2019,...
The exercise conundrum: sometimes active people put on more weight than couch potatoes – here's why
Apr 01, 2019 17:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Governments are always telling us to eat less and exercise more to be healthier, but this presents an obvious problem. Being active is liable to make you hungrier, so theres a risk you end up eating extra to compensate,...
Measles: should vaccinations should be compulsory?
Apr 01, 2019 17:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Following a measles outbreak in Rockland County in New York State, authorities there have declared a state of emergency, with unvaccinated children barred from public spaces, raising important questions about the...
How DNA ancestry testing can change our ideas of who we are
Apr 01, 2019 17:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Have you ever wondered who you are or where you come from? I think its a fundamental human desire to want to know this. One way were seeing this curiosity play out is in the rise of the at-home DNA ancestry business....
Neuroscience proves Nietzsche right: some people are wired to be more spontaneous than others
Mar 25, 2019 13:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Why cant you just relax into it? is a question many of us have asked in frustration with ourselves or others be it on the dance floor, the sporting field or in rather more private circumstances. The task typically...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects