Room sharing is the new flat sharing
Oct 05, 2017 03:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
High rents and short-term rentals are driving people to organise themselves to share rooms with strangers in order to live in the city. Room sharing outside a family environment is also occurring in some professions. This...
The immense challenge of desertification in sub-Saharan Africa
Oct 05, 2017 03:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Today, dry areas represent more than 41% of land on the globe and they are home to more than two billion people. They are the stage for the ongoing process of land degradation that is aggravated by climate fluctuations ...
Why we should listen to people angry about their taxes
Oct 05, 2017 03:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Is it too much to expect people to talk calmly and reasonably about tax changes? Yes. Yes, it is too much. As a historian of tax in 20th century Canada, I have read thousands of letters to ministers of finance, and they...
World War Three is being waged in cyberspace
Oct 05, 2017 03:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
My introduction to advanced communication technology (i.e. the Internet and World Wide Web) came in 1999. Having grown up in the two-channel universe of the 1960s and 70s, I was agog at the power it represented. The...
How to improve the skills of tomorrow's doctors
Oct 05, 2017 03:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Imagine youre inside an ambulance racing to the emergency room with the lights and sirens blaring. You and your nine-year-old daughter were in a car accident; she is unconscious and bleeding. The paramedic has initiated an...
The opioid epidemic in 6 charts
Oct 05, 2017 03:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Drug overdose deaths, once rare, are now the leading cause of accidental death in the Unites States, surpassing peak annual deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents, guns and HIV infection. As a former public health...
How the Chinese cyberthreat has evolved
Oct 05, 2017 03:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
With more than half of its 1.4 billion people online, the worlds most populous country is home to a slew of cyberspies and hackers. Indeed, China has likely stolen more secrets from businesses and governments than any...
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