Las Vegas: the US is racked with impossible divisions over rights and freedoms
Oct 05, 2017 04:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
In the immediate aftermath of the October 2 Las Vegas massacre the USs 273rd mass shooting in 2017 alone it seems neither President Donald Trump nor his Republican colleagues will entertain a review of current gun...
Dissociative identity disorder exists and is the result of childhood trauma
Oct 05, 2017 04:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Once known as multiple personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder remains one of the most intriguing but poorly understood mental illnesses. Research and clinical experience indicate people diagnosed with the...
Error correcting the things that go wrong at the quantum computing scale
Oct 05, 2017 03:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Computing power has grown exponentially over many decades, so why is the much-promised next leap of quantum computers taking so long to arrive? One reason is that the information in a quantum system is sensitive to...
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...
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