Eight ways to reduce the chances of overeating these holidays
Dec 28, 2018 00:04 am UTC| Health
Holidays are often a time of overindulgence and food-based regret. Thats partly because when people eat together, they tend to eat more. But if youre aware of the things that encourage you to eat more than you need and...
Organic, free-range, fairtrade or vegan: how ethical consumption got so selective
Dec 27, 2018 10:30 am UTC| Health
Are you an organic shopper? Into fairtrade? A greenhouse gas warrior? All about free-range and animal welfare? Even if you said yes to all the above, the chances are that, when you shop, only a few products that meet...
'Strong is the new skinny' isn't as empowering as it sounds
Dec 27, 2018 01:58 am UTC| Health
Women have long been subject to powerful social pressures to look a certain way. The feminine ideal a svelte female figure has dominated film, television and magazine culture. The result is a narrow idea of what...
What if consciousness is just a product of our nonconcious brain?
Dec 24, 2018 08:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
As the very word used to describe it has been worn smooth by a million tongues, consciousness is a fertile topic for confusion. We all know what it is to be conscious. It is, basically, being aware of and responding to the...
Obsessed with being busy? A historical perspective may help you out
Dec 24, 2018 08:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Addiction to being busy is popularly portrayed as a toxic feature of modernity. The acceleration of everyday life is nostalgically compared to the past, when life was supposedly simpler. Yet the question of how best to...
Drug development is no longer just for Big Pharma. Researchers at Bio-X explain
Dec 21, 2018 11:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
I am a graduate student and resident in the field of neurosurgery and would like to share an unusual and very personal story of developing a drug. Developmental biologist Dr. Matthew Scott and I went from purely basic...
The problem with using psychoanalysis on children
Dec 19, 2018 15:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Children with problems or problem children? That is the question often asked by parents and teachers alike. If a child is naughty in school, are they a bad child or are they facing mental ill health? Most analysis...
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