To solve the gender pay gap we need to radically rethink what a job looks like

May 02, 2019 17:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

The introduction of gender pay gap reporting has highlighted the continued gap in pay between men and women. While it is by no means a perfect metric, the very exercise of collecting this data has focused minds in the...

Four ways in which Leonardo da Vinci was ahead of his time

May 02, 2019 16:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Leonardo da Vinci is generally recognised as one of the great figures of the Renaissance and one of the greatest ever polymaths. As the world marks the 500th anniversary of his death, its important to look at some of the...

Psst... wanna buy a necklace? Humans have been faking jewellery for thousands of years

May 02, 2019 16:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Making fake jewels isnt a modern phenomenon its a human behaviour that dates back thousands of years. New research published today suggests that traders 2,000 years ago were producing imitation amber beads, coating...

Smart cities aim to make urban life more efficient – but for citizens' sake they need to slow down

Apr 27, 2019 06:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

All over the world, governments, institutions and businesses are combining technologies for gathering data, enhancing communications and sharing information, with urban infrastructure, to create smart cities. One of the...

Feel like time is flying? Here's how to slow it down

Apr 27, 2019 06:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Sometimes it seems as if life is passing us by. When we are children, time ambles by, with endless car journeys and summer holidays which seem to last forever. But as adults, time seems to speed up at a frightening rate,...

Secularism: Québecers are religious about it

Apr 27, 2019 06:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Some Canadians outside of Québec have reacted with disbelief at the tabling of a bill in the provincial legislature by the Coalition Avenir Québec government to ensure the religious neutrality of the...

Notre Dame has shaped the intellectual life of Paris for eight centuries

Apr 27, 2019 06:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

The burning wreckage of the 12th-century Notre-Dame de Paris led to an immediate outpouring of grief over the damage to its irreplaceable architecture and works of art. But as a scholar of medieval religious history, I...