Books become films and films become games – stories can now be told without limits
Apr 12, 2016 11:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
What is it about videogames that keeps players spellbound for hours, days, even weeks at a time? Some offer players the freedom to explore a world beautiful to behold, one of rich geographic detail achieved through the...
BoC in neutral mode at April meet, focus likely to be on the Monetary Policy Report
Apr 12, 2016 10:13 am UTC| Insights & Views
The Bank of Canada (BoC) holds its next policy meeting on Wednesday, 13th April. While no change in policy is expected, the central banks new growth forecasts will be watched. The central bank is expected to keep policy...
Beyoncé and the cultural lure of sweat
Apr 12, 2016 08:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Beyoncé has launched, in collaboration with the owner of Topshop, a range of activewear (clothing for sport or exercise) named Ivy Park. The singer joins a growing list of celebrities who have launched activewear...
Did the earth move for you? How GPS tracks the slow movements of a world in motion
Apr 12, 2016 08:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature Technology
If you feel that the earth beneath your feet is moving, its because it is. Since the late 1980s geophysicists including myself have been building a network of advanced Global Positioning System (GPS) instruments to...
19th century weather data is helping climate scientists predict the future
Apr 12, 2016 08:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The 19th-century English historian Lord Acton famously advised people to live in both the future and the past, and said those who do not live in the past cannot live in the future. It may seem a stretch to apply this...
Why it is good policy, not bad politics, to ignore bad modelling on negative gearing
Apr 12, 2016 07:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Negative gearing and capital gains tax are a looming battleground in the federal election. The debate was heightened last month by the release of modelling by consultants BIS Shrapnel purporting to show that reforms would...
Shifting the field of view: Telling science stories with virtual reality
Apr 12, 2016 06:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Science Technology
Since first donning a Virtual Reality (VR) headset only 8 months ago, my personal relationship with this technology has progressed at lightning speed, way past the awkward getting-to-know-you phase. In the broad scheme of...
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