Why immigrant Mom & Pop Shops are really social ventures
Aug 13, 2018 13:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Icy cold winters and culture shock are not the only things newcomers face when they move to Canada; they also have a hard time fitting in and finding meaningful work. We accept people with the hopes that they will be...
The influence of opium and cocaine panic in Canadian drug policy
Aug 13, 2018 13:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Current discussions on the history of prohibition and drug laws in Canada have explored the narrative that Canadas drug laws were fuelled by racism. The story goes like this: A 1907 anti-immigration attack on Chinese...
Are they watching you? The tiny brains of bees and wasps can recognise faces
Aug 13, 2018 13:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Recognising faces is essential for how we interact in complex societies, and is often thought to be an ability that requires the sophistication of the large human brain. But new evidence we published in Frontiers in...
Why we need some perspective on landscape photography in the Instagram age
Aug 13, 2018 13:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Thanks to the increasing accessibility of technology, many of us will try to capture the grandeur of the natural world with our phone cameras. One of the attractions is sharing images on social media and publicly staking...
Five easy ways to boost children's spatial skills
Aug 13, 2018 13:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
When we read maps, pack the car for holidays, assemble flat-pack furniture or cut cake into equal slices, we use spatial reasoning skills. These allow us to mentally manipulate objects or think in a way that relates to...
Is it time to remove the cancer label from low-risk conditions?
Aug 13, 2018 13:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Over the past few decades, our understanding of cancer has changed. We now know some cancers dont grow or grow so slowly that theyll never cause medical problems. But the way we label disease can harm. The use of more...
Obesity is a market failure and personal responsibility will not solve it alone
Aug 13, 2018 13:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
This is the first of a two-part series on obesity as a market failure. Read the second part here. Obesity levels in Australia and around the world are high and rising. This comes at an enormous economic cost for society...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
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