Why young women say no to rural Australia
Aug 13, 2018 15:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
When it comes to migration trends, young people aged 15-24 are among the most itinerant in Australia. According to the 2016 census statistics, slightly more than half (50.5%) of people in this age bracket changed their...
Trees are made of human breath
Aug 13, 2018 15:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Outside my office window, two skilled workers complete a hard and dirty job. Theyre cutting the felled trunk of a tree into small enough pieces to be thrown into the back of a truck with the rest of the chipped remains. I...
Other people are having way, way less sex than you think they are
Aug 13, 2018 15:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Research shows we think young people have a lot more sex than they do in reality and men have a particularly skewed view of the sex lives of young women. As part of Ipsos long-running studies on misperceptions, to be...
Polls update: Trump’s ratings held up by US economy; Australian polls steady
Aug 13, 2018 15:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Three months before the November 6 US midterm elections, the FiveThirtyEight poll aggregate gives Donald Trump a 41.7% approval rating and a 52.5% disapproval rating, for a net approval of -10.8. Despite issues such as...
How the federal government came to control your car's fuel economy
Aug 13, 2018 15:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The Environmental Protection Agency in August announced a plan to freeze fuel economy standards and revoke the ability of California to set more stringent rules than the national ones, prompting a legal showdown between...
The case for boosting WNBA player salaries
Aug 13, 2018 14:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
As someone who has studied the WNBA for years, Ive been excited to witness, over the course of this season, continued growth in viewership and attendance, along with sponsorship revenue. Last year, total attendance for...
The world of plastics, in numbers
Aug 13, 2018 14:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
From its early beginnings during and after World War II, the commercial industry for polymers long chain synthetic molecules of which plastics are a common misnomer has grown rapidly. In 2015, over 320 million tons of...
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’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects