How to avoid overspending: uncover the psychology behind why people buy

Dec 19, 2018 15:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Between 40% and 80% of purchases are impulse buys. Marketers often get blamed for this, but while marketing tactics may be cynical, manipulative, and even deceptive, shoppers are generally wise to their ways. Of greater...

Stand-up comics should concentrate on being funny: so don't take offence if they are

Dec 19, 2018 15:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

Stand-up comedian Konstantin Kisin was recently expected to sign a contract promising to steer clear of a list of potentially offensive topics before playing a UK university gig. Meanwhile US comedian and Saturday Night...

How we're probing the secrets of a giant black hole at our galaxy's centre

Dec 19, 2018 15:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

Supermassive black holes are giant black holes found at the centre of almost every galaxy. Astronomers recently made the clearest image yet of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our own galaxy using the new...

Why are people religious? A cognitive perspective

Dec 19, 2018 15:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

The quick and easy answer to why people are religious is that God in whichever form you believe he/she/they take(s) is real and people believe because they communicate with it and perceive evidence of its involvement in...

What makes someone an 'illegal immigrant'?

Dec 19, 2018 15:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views

After months of negotiations and some controversy, a Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was agreed by 164 countries in early December. In the final text of this agreement and in the process that led up...

Theatre is Lying is a welcome response to fake news and alternative facts

Dec 19, 2018 15:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

Review: Theatre is Lying, ACCA, Melbourne. In an era where local and international politics risks being less believable than a long-form TV series like House of Cards, it is apposite that the latest exhibition at the...

Dramatic advances in forensics expose the need for genetic data legislation

Dec 19, 2018 15:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

Many people first became familiar with DNA testing through its use in the OJ Simpson murder trial in 1994. Now, 24 years later, there have been two dramatic advances in the capability of forensic genetics that mark the...