Tattooing has held a long tradition in Christianity − dating back to Jesus’ crucifixion
Mar 07, 2024 07:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Holy Week and Easter are perhaps the most important days in the Christian calendar. Many associate those celebrations with church services, processions, candles, incense, fasting and penances. However, there is another...
How age-friendly universities can improve the second half of life
Mar 06, 2024 23:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
By 2030, more than 1.4 billion people across the globe will be at least 60 years old. This number will shoot up to 2.1 billion by 2050. At this point, there will be more people age 60 or older than people between 10 and...
Immigrant women suffer financially for taking maternity leave: 4 ways Canada can improve
Mar 06, 2024 22:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Canada is facing a critical shortage of caregivers, both paid and unpaid. And those who do this vital work face significant pressures that are impacting their lives. In particular, there are high costs to immigrant women...
Women want to climb the corporate ladder — but not at any price
Mar 06, 2024 22:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The consulting firm Spencer Stuart recently published a study of top management at Fortune 500 companies, the 500 richest companies in the United States. The analysis focused specifically on the gender of the people in...
The future of work: Why we must think beyond the hype of the four-day week
Feb 29, 2024 11:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Is reducing working hours a sign of progress? Since the 19th century, the number of hours spent at work has been steadily declining in developed countries. The four-day week emerged in the 90s as a political and...
Dating apps are accused of being ‘addictive’. What makes us keep swiping?
Feb 23, 2024 01:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
A class-action lawsuit filed in the United States against Match Group the parent company of dating apps Tinder, Hinge and The League is making headlines around the world. The claimants accuse Match of having a...
FAFSA website meltdown: How to avoid additional frustration with financial aid applications
Feb 20, 2024 11:08 am UTC| Life
When Congress passed the FAFSA Simplification Act in 2020, it was touted as making it easier for more families to access the government funding they need to send their children to college. But as recent events have shown,...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
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IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects