Saving lives in poor countries is about adapting to what's already working there
May 04, 2017 12:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Each year, 5.9 million children under the age of five die, mostly from preventable causes. Thats more than 16,000 children every day and more than 8,000 of these are deaths that could have been prevented with simple,...
Should India's skilled workers worry about new US visa policies?
May 04, 2017 12:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views
In his latest border-closing move, US President Donald Trump issued an April 18 executive order to review the H1-B visa program, which enables educated migrants with specific skills to work temporarily in the...
Facebook turns to real people to fix its violent video problem
May 04, 2017 12:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Facebook has recently been under fire for not doing enough to keep disturbing content out of our newsfeeds. It hopes a hiring spree will fix the problem. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, company founder and CEO Mark...
How Star Wars kick-started modern toy collecting
May 04, 2017 12:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life Entertainment
On 25 May, 1977 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope opened in movie theatres across America. The now iconic science fiction film has lasted the test of time, spawning two sequels Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and...
How universities can earn trust and share power in the bitter post-truth era
May 04, 2017 11:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
James Baldwin, the author, playwright and social critic, whose life is depicted in the remarkable 2016 film I Am Not Your Negro, once said: It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most...
How robots can help us embrace a more human view of disability
May 04, 2017 11:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health
When dealing with the otherness of disability, the Victorians in their shame built huge out-of-sight asylums, and their legacy of them and us continues to this day. Two hundred years later, technologies offer us an...
Emmanuel Macron takes step closer to French presidency with strong performance in fiery debate
May 04, 2017 11:44 am UTC| Politics Insights & Views
Emmanuel Macron was a virtually unknown figure in French politics before 2012. Now, as leader of the new political movement En Marche! he finds himself in the position of being the defender of French liberal democratic...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
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