How the rich helped create 2016's angry populism
Apr 14, 2016 23:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that the rich are different than you and me. Fitzgeralds observation rings especially true today. The growing divide between the wealthy and everyone else is one of the...
Spending away Australia's Triple A?
Apr 14, 2016 23:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views
This week: The IMF warns of secular stagnation while Moodys ponders a credit downgrade for Australia if GST and negative gearing are not tackled. The big news this week was domestic. And it was about the big...
What prairie dogs tell us about the effects of noise pollution
Apr 14, 2016 23:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In todays busy online world, our brains are constantly stimulated by an onslaught of information. When faced with distractions such as ringing phones, noisy colleagues and floods of incoming emails, focusing on a complex...
Russia: a global energy powerhouse that's much more than a petro-state
Apr 14, 2016 16:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Russia is not what you think. Most discussion about its energy influence has focused on oil and gas, particularly gas. Russia can be described, and is routinely described, as a petro-state. This is only partly...
Free trade is once again tearing apart the Republican Party
Apr 14, 2016 16:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Free trade has become the Republican elephant in the room, thanks to Donald Trump. The GOP front-runner has helped make trade one of the hot-button issues of the 2016 presidential race. And its tearing the Republican...
How playing video games can change your retirement
Apr 14, 2016 16:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The teenagers who were hooked on Pac-Man in the arcades and amusement parks of the early 1970s are getting ready for retirement, but many of them have never stopped playing video games. In fact, it doesnt look like they...
Ukraine: a counter revolution could be under way in Kiev
Apr 14, 2016 16:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraines unruly parliament, voted on April 14 to accept the resignation of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, leader of the Peoples Front party. The prime minister, who has been in post since the Euromaidan uprising in...
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