For poor children, two healthy meals a day can keep obesity away
Apr 14, 2016 04:59 am UTC| Insights & Views
Schoolchildren who receive a nutritious lunchtime meal are less likely to be overweight or suffer from childhood obesity. And those who receive both breakfast and lunch are three times less likely to suffer this...
Understanding violence against the left in Indonesia
Apr 14, 2016 04:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Over the past year, public discussions and gatherings in Indonesia on left-wing ideas and the 1965 anti-communist purge, and even female punk groups have been forced to cancel or move to other venues due to pressure from...
If we want to solve London's housing crisis, we'll need to think small
Apr 14, 2016 03:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Matthew Carmona, Professor of Planning and Urban Design Politicians are finally waking up to the fact that London has a housing crisis. Everyone, from the candidates for London mayor to the prime minister, has been...
Does higher-density city development leave urban forests out on a limb?
Apr 14, 2016 02:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Greater recognition of the benefits of urban forests is focusing efforts from all levels of government to defend and improve them. Perhaps the most iconic of these efforts is New York Citys Million Trees Program. Other...
We need to change what people think modern slavery is
Apr 14, 2016 02:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
What images does the word slavery conjure up in your mind? Men in iron collars shipped from Africa on huge wooden galleons, forced to work the fields under the whip of the master? Perhaps you think that slavery is an old...
Apr 14, 2016 02:45 am UTC| Insights & Views
Before European imperialism fatally undermined Chinas own dynastic system, it was customary for Chinas neighbours to acknowledge its dominance by sending tribute missions to the imperial court. While Malcolm Turnbull is...
The ageing population is a threat to women’s economic welfare
Apr 14, 2016 02:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Many women in the UK are unaware of the financial risk they face. A financial risk brought about by the ageing population. Across the globe, about two thirds of informal care for frail older people falls to female...
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