New drugs on the PBS: what they do and why we need them
May 05, 2017 02:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
This week, the government announced the latest additions, amendments, and deletions from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS): the program through which essential medicines are subsidised for Australian patients. The...
Helping student activists move past 'us vs. them'
May 05, 2017 02:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Protest turned violent on the Berkeley and Middlebury campuses; students shouted down speakers at MacMaster University and UCLA and blocked entry to a talk at Claremont McKenna: These are among the many recent incidents...
China’s Eurasian gambit needs to be taken seriously
May 05, 2017 02:01 am UTC| Insights & Views
Later this month, 28 heads of government, plus many hundreds of others will gather in Beijing for the Belt and Road Summit. Leaders from Europe, Africa, and Asia will gather in the Chinese capital as part of an elaborate...
Highlighting 'good and bad' debt will make it harder to fund social programs
May 05, 2017 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In the forthcoming budget, the net operating balance will be reported alongside the underlying cash balance. This change has important policy implications because it creates a strong bias towards public spending on...
You can tell more about a person from their Facebook page than by actually meeting them
May 05, 2017 01:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
We judge people all the time. Research shows that when we first meet someone, we instantly use features such as their attractiveness and facial expressions to form an opinion about how approachable and trustworthy they...
How pre-existing conditions became front and center in health care vote
May 05, 2017 01:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Pre-existing conditions became the focus of debate on the American Health Care Act, which was narrowly passed 217-213 by the House of Representatives May 4, 2017. The debate led to bitter disagreement, as Republicans...
Court ruling is a first step toward controlling air pollution from livestock farms
May 05, 2017 01:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Editors note: Most livestock farming in industrialized countries takes place on large enclosed farms, known in the United States as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), that house hundreds or thousands of...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects