Tobacco company in Indonesia skirts regulation, uses music concerts and social media for marketing

Aug 01, 2018 14:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

In the era of selfies, likes, and #hashtags, the tobacco industry has adapted its marketing strategies and embraced social media to promote its addictive and deadly products to a young and online-savvy audience. In...

Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like

Aug 01, 2018 14:51 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the Royal Musical Association in London the words of an unnamed professor of Greek with musical leanings: Nobody has ever made head or tail of ancient...

Clamping the umbilical cord straight after birth is bad for a baby's health

Aug 01, 2018 14:51 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Clamping and cutting a babys umbilical cord as soon as it is born can be bad for its health. The World Health Organisation advises that clamping should be delayed for two to three minutes after the baby has been born, and...

A perfect storm of factors is making wildfires bigger and more expensive to control

Aug 01, 2018 14:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Hopes for fewer large wildfires in 2018, after last years disastrous fire season, are rapidly disappearing across the West. Six deaths have been reported in Northern Californias Carr Fire, including two firefighters. Fires...

For many Muslim grocery shoppers, a shifting definition of 'halal'

Aug 01, 2018 14:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views

For Muslims, halal food follows certain rules proscribed by Islamic law. It usually pertains to ritual slaughter and abstention from certain items like pork, blood and alcohol. But the interpretation of Islamic food...

Designing a 'solar tarp,' a foldable, packable way to generate power from the sun

Aug 01, 2018 14:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

The energy-generating potential of solar panels and a key limitation on their use is a result of what theyre made of. Panels made of silicon are declining in price such that in some locations they can provide electricity...

What Richard Dawkins doesn't get about the Muslim call to prayer

Aug 01, 2018 14:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist, unapologetic atheist and author of God Delusion, recently tweeted a picture of himself in front of the Winchester Cathedral in England, which said, Listening to the lovely...