Four signs you have high emotional intelligence
Apr 12, 2017 09:49 am UTC| Health
Emotional intelligence can mean the difference between behaving in a socially acceptable way and being considered to be way out of line. While most people will have heard of emotional intelligence, not many people really...
The key to eating five fruit and veg a day might just be to make them more tasty
Apr 11, 2017 13:50 pm UTC| Health
Pea tart might be the key to winning hearts and minds in the war against poor nutrition. We are deluged with advice and guidance about what we should eat and in what volumes, but still adults and children alike struggle to...
Tobacco tax hikes are great, so long as you’re not a poor smoker
Apr 11, 2017 06:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Health
Tobacco tax increases in Australia that will see a packet of cigarettes costing A$40 may discourage smoking, but will end up having unintended consequences for poorer smokers, new research shows. According to our...
In Bangladesh, people are eating more fish but getting less nutrition from it
Apr 11, 2017 05:38 am UTC| Health
People in Bangladesh are now eating 30% more fish than they did 20 years ago, but they are getting a smaller amount of important nutrients from it, a new study shows. Fish is widely known as a healthy food, rich in...
Enzymes versus nerve agents: Designing antidotes for chemical weapons
Apr 11, 2017 04:48 am UTC| Health
A chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 people, including children, triggered the Trump administrations recent missile strikes against the Syrian government. The use of illegal nerve agents apparently by the...
Snout, sniff and sneeze: the language of the nose
Apr 11, 2017 04:42 am UTC| Health
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that language is fossil poetry. It is made up, he said, of images which have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin. Some of that poetry is on the nose. An extraordinary number of...
Why ADHD can be a valuable bonus for entrepreneurs
Apr 10, 2017 13:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Business
Entrepreneurship is about moving forwards. It involves branching out, a search for the new, starting a journey in which the destination is unknown. In a sense then, it is not an entirely rational process, in which actions...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight