Fighting income inequality: the role business can play
May 23, 2016 23:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business Life
In recent months, debates about global economic inequality have reached boiling point. In Britain, voters will soon decide whether to exit the European Union against the backdrop of a growing Brexit movement fuelled by...
Speaking dialects trains the brain as well as bilingualism does
May 23, 2016 16:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
There has been a lot of research to back up the idea that people who use two or more languages everyday experience significant advantages. The brain-training involved in having to use a different language depending on the...
Beastie Boy John Barry died of frontal lobe dementia – but what is it?
May 23, 2016 16:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
John Barry, a founder member of the Beastie Boys, has died of dementia at the age of 52. Barrys father told Rolling Stone magazine that his son died from frontal lobe dementia, a rare form of dementia more properly...
Jamie Oliver's big chance to persuade the world to take action against obesity
May 23, 2016 16:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Dear Jamie Oliver, You want to put pressure on world leaders to take action against obesity and undernourishment the world over. And you are absolutely right to highlight these problems to David Cameron ahead of your...
Decolonising universities isn't an easy process -- but it has to happen
May 23, 2016 16:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views
South African universities have become protest sites. Beginning in 2015 and continuing this year, students have organised against colonial symbols, fee structures, worker exploitation and sexual violence. The anger...
Mystery in northern Scotland that is baffling multiple sclerosis experts
May 23, 2016 16:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The north of Scotland has long been an important part of our quest to understand what causes multiple sclerosis (MS). Though we have known about the regions high rate of the disease for some time, it moved centre stage...
Solar storms could solve longstanding paradox of how life on Earth arose
May 23, 2016 16:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
It was only a matter of 700m years or so after Earth formed and its surface cooled and solidified that life began to flourish on Earth. All studies suggest that life requires water and we know from rocks on Earth that the...
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’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects