Mar 28, 2024 12:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Finland steadily ranks as the happiest country in the world. In March 2024 the country was, for the seventh year in a row, ranked as the happiness champion. The ranking is based on one simple question, using a ladder...
Food prices will climb everywhere as temperatures rise due to climate change – new research
Mar 25, 2024 05:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Economy
Climate change, and specifically rising temperatures, may cause food prices to increase by 3.2% per year, according to a new study by researchers in Germany. As climate change continues to worsen, this price inflation will...
‘The ghost has taken the spirit of the Moon’: how Torres Strait Islanders predict eclipses
Mar 25, 2024 05:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Its eclipse season. The Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned so its possible for the Earth and Moon to cast each other into shadow. A faint lunar eclipse will occur on March 25, visible at dusk from Australia and eastern...
How Moscow terror attack fits ISIS-K strategy to widen agenda, take fight to its perceived enemies
Mar 25, 2024 05:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Russia is reeling from the worst terror strike on its soil in a generation following an attack on March 22, 2024, that killed at least 137 concertgoers in Moscow. The attack has been claimed by the Islamic State group....
How ‘social financing’ could help fund higher education for under-represented students
Mar 20, 2024 12:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Canadas new international student cap will likely have a significant impact on universities, which are already facing financial pressures and other challenges related to artificial intelligence and climate change all...
Do you have 7,513 unread emails in your inbox? Research suggests that’s unwise
Mar 19, 2024 11:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
How do you manage your emails? Are you an inbox zero kind of person, or do you just leave thousands of them unread? Our new study, published today in the journal Information Research, suggests that leaving all your...
What is the ‘great replacement theory’? A scholar of race relations explains
Mar 18, 2024 09:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The great replacement theory, whose origins date back to the late 19th century, argues that Jews and some Western elites are conspiring to replace white Americans and Europeans with people of non-European descent,...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
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