Intermittent fasting could help tackle diabetes – here's the science
Aug 21, 2017 13:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Intermittent fasting is currently all the rage. But dont be fooled: its much more than just the latest fad. Recent studies of this kind of fasting with restricted eating part of the time, but not all of the time have...
Warning signs of mass violence – in the US?
Aug 21, 2017 13:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
There are those who say that comparing President Donald Trumps rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler is alarmist, unfair and counterproductive. And yet, there has been no dearth of such comparisons since the 2016...
Colleges need affirmative action – but it can be expanded
Aug 21, 2017 13:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
In 2003, Justice Antonin Scalia predicted that the Supreme Courts sanctioning of race-conscious affirmative action in higher education would spark future litigation for years to come. And right he was. From defeated claims...
Can low doses of chemicals affect your health? A new report weighs the evidence
Aug 21, 2017 13:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Toxicologys founding father, Paracelsus, is famous for proclaiming that the dose makes the poison. This phrase represents a pillar of traditional toxicology: Essentially, chemicals are harmful only at high enough...
Hundreds of languages are spoken in the UK, but this isn't always reflected in the classroom
Aug 21, 2017 13:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views
More than 300 different languages are now spoken in British schools. And in England, over 20% of primary school children use English as an additional language. This equates to over 900,000 children for whom English is...
We don't want AI that can understand us – we'd only end up arguing
Aug 21, 2017 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Forget the Turing test. Computing pioneer Alan Turings most pertinent thoughts on machine intelligence come from a neglected paragraph of the same paper that first proposed his famous test for whether a computer could be...
Aug 21, 2017 12:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views
There has been the dual piece of news about China over the past weekend. One is that the US formally launched a trade investigation on Chinas intellectual property practices, under so-called Section 301, which could take...
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects