Offshore drilling: why it makes economic sense to wait
Apr 08, 2016 09:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
From chants of Drill, Baby, Drill to outrage over the BP oil spill, offshore drilling has been highly controversial in recent years. Some view it as a vastly underused revenue source, while others see it as a grave...
Why robots need to be able to say 'No'
Apr 08, 2016 09:44 am UTC| Insights & Views
Should you always do what other people tell you to do? Clearly not. Everyone knows that. So should future robots always obey our commands? At first glance, you might think they should, simply because they are machines and...
Vital Signs: all eyes on the Aussie dollar
Apr 08, 2016 09:41 am UTC| Insights & Views
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...
Understanding plague in the 21st century
Apr 08, 2016 09:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
In medieval times, plague was known as the black death and resulted in millions of Europeans dying. Plague still persists in many areas, with the highest annual burden of disease in Africa. The advent of antibiotics means...
Why Mexico has nothing to fear from Donald Trump
Apr 08, 2016 09:30 am UTC| Insights & Views
Donald Trump, business mogul and B-list celebrity-turned-political wonder, has somehow seized the imaginations of a shocking number of Americans. His brass and confrontational style has won him the sympathy of the...
What is a contested convention – and what would one mean for the GOP?
Apr 08, 2016 09:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The possibility that the Republican primary race could end in a contested convention is a journalists dream and one that the media has speculated on during every electoral cycle in recent memory. It was entertaining for...
What has the EU ever done for us?
Apr 08, 2016 07:58 am UTC| Insights & Views
Think labour protection, enhanced social welfare, smoke-free workplaces, equal pay legislation, holiday entitlement, and the right not to work more than a 48-hour week without overtime. Also consumer protection, product...
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