The Paris climate agreement needs coordinated carbon prices to be successful
Jun 14, 2016 08:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The Paris climate agreement was an important success for climate diplomacy as nation states showed a strong will to cooperate on climate action. But instead of imposing binding national emission targets, the Paris...
Trollied: serves you (just) right
Jun 14, 2016 08:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
For the comic protagonist, the literary critic Northrop Frye once observed, life is something you get through. While tragic characters die in plangent splendour, and Marvel superheroes vanquish tech-spangled foes, the...
Microsoft sees integration opportunities in LinkedIn purchase - but will users care?
Jun 14, 2016 07:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has explained the rationale behind the tech companys plans to buy LinkedIn for US$26.2 billion. In a letter to staff, Nadella said he believes that access to LinkedIn customers will benefit...
Social Media Revolution Series
Climate change makes a comeback – with the help of social media
Jun 14, 2016 07:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In what has been shaping up as the election that forgot climate change, there are signs emerging in the Coalitions election campaign that it is starting to listen to polls, its own focus groups and social media chat on...
Is nicotine really as safe as e-cigarette supporters make out?
Jun 14, 2016 07:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
A core platform of the massive promotion of e-cigarettes has been the argument that because these products involve no combustion but only vapourisation, they must be substantially less dangerous than smoked tobacco. Few ...
Computing gives us tools to preserve disappearing languages
Jun 14, 2016 06:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
In 100 years, many of the worlds 7,000 languages could be extinct. Hundreds of years of oral storytelling will disappear in the space of a couple of generations. The knowledge and beauty locked up in these languages is...
Jun 13, 2016 12:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views
On Friday the Central Bank of Russia has lowered its benchmark one-week repo rate by 50bps taking the main refinancing rate to 10.5%, as widely anticipated, justifying inflation expectations continued to decrease amid an...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects