Who gets the frozen embryos in the divorce?
Aug 13, 2018 15:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Life
In a recent judgment in Ontario, Canada, a court has determined that embryos can be understood as property and decisions about them made accordingly. This raises new concerns about decision-making related to...
What is insider trading, the crime Rep. Chris Collins was charged with?
Aug 13, 2018 15:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The arrest of Congressman Chris Collins shines light on one of the sexier crimes that the securities laws has to offer: insider trading. Its the subject of many iconic movies like Wall Street, television shows like...
Paying an extra $150 million a year to protect growers? That's bananas!
Aug 13, 2018 15:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
No international traveller can miss the impact of Australias quarantine restrictions. Loud posters at every international airport instruct you to dump your fresh produce or face large fines. Into the bin then with the...
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...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects