Mindfulness can help PhD students shift from surviving to thriving

Nov 26, 2018 15:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Undertaking a PhD can be very stressful, due to a range of challenges. These include having to develop discipline expertise as well as generic skills (such as academic writing and maintaining motivation) during a largely...

Why Christians prefer classical music and non-believers like heavy metal

Nov 26, 2018 15:57 pm UTC| Life

When Prime Minister Scott Morrison bizarrely used a Fatman Scoop track embedded in a tweet, and then quickly retracted it, he shed perhaps unwitting light on the moral dimensions of our musical taste. Morrisons tweet...

Kathleen Petyarre: a brilliant artist whose life was rudely interrupted by colonisers

Nov 26, 2018 15:50 pm UTC| Life Entertainment

The artist Kwementyaye (Kathleen) Petyarre (c. 1938 24 November 2018) has died in Alice Springs, surrounded by family and loved ones, at about the age of 80. Alhwarrpe. About that age, because Petyarre was born out...

Measuring racial profiling: Why it's hard to tell where police are treating minorities unfairly

Nov 14, 2018 12:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Donald Trump has waved the words stop and frisk around like a banner call to cure violent crime in American cities. That means its time to take a look back at one of the primary criticisms of this police practice:...

Michelle Obama's Becoming is an insight into inequality, feminism and a FLOTUS who broke the mould

Nov 14, 2018 11:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Time magazine described it as a tour fit for a rock star. This is not how book promotional outings are usually billed but then this is no ordinary tome. The memoirs of Michelle Obama comprise one half of a US$65m joint...

British Muslims will live with an intolerable burden of uncertainty under new counter-terrorism bill

Nov 14, 2018 11:55 am UTC| Life

Imagine a small, rat-infested town. Everyone is complaining about the rats and it dawns on the mayor she might gain some political advantage from dealing with the issue. So, she poisons the towns water. Lo, all the rats...

Book on Steinhoff's demise shows danger of 'big men' business leaders

Nov 14, 2018 11:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

The collapse of Steinhoff International, the multi-billion dollar global business group, has been rightly described as the biggest corporate scandal in South African history. The companys history, and its subsequent...