Putin’s cyber play: What are all these Russian hackers up to?
Sep 30, 2016 09:17 am UTC| Insights & Views
Russia has been implicated in many breaches of U.S. networks in recent months, most notably the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee hacks, whose data were subsequently dumped...
How to vote for president when you don't like the candidates
Sep 30, 2016 08:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
How do voters select a candidate when no one they like is on the ballot? Behavioral scientists have studied decision-making including voting for decades. However, researchers usually give respondents at least one...
President Trump would cause financial Armageddon
Sep 30, 2016 07:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting...
Brexit will blow a hole in EU-Africa relations
Sep 30, 2016 07:58 am UTC| Insights & Views
In the flood of debate and opinion which followed the UKs Brexit referendum, journalists and scholars alike have focused on the economic impact on Britain, the future of trade agreements and the effect on the rest of the...
Crime and conmen in the black out: the violent side of the World War I home front
Sep 30, 2016 07:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
As the commemorations for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme continue, its tempting to picture the Britain of 1914-1918 in a particular way: its inhabitants bonded together in a shared mission, brave men enduring...
Sep 30, 2016 07:34 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
Along the same lines the Bank of Japans (BoJ) new old monetary policy, which will concentrate on controlling the yield curve, and would not have an effect on the Japanese inflation rate. On the contrary, the data is...
The race to make Formula One greener
Sep 29, 2016 14:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
Formula One racing has been the subject of a massive takeover by US cable tycoon John Malone, driven by the desire to add subscribers to his channels and diversify his holdings. Malone paid US$4.4 billion for a 35% stake,...
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