Women-led protests in Iran gather momentum - but will they be enough to bring about change?

Oct 13, 2022 11:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

As protests in Iran drag on into their fourth week over the violent death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman, there are two central questions. The first is whether these protests involving women and girls...

On the brink: Global crises ranging from climate to economic meltdown demand radical change

Oct 11, 2022 04:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

We have damaged our planet through destructive exploitation of fossil fuels and the insatiable demand for things we dont need. We are cooking ourselves to death and it may already be too late to do anything about...

Has Patagonia defined a new gold standard for business responsibility?

Oct 11, 2022 04:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

Patagonias founder Yvon Chouinard made headlines recently with the decision to give his familys $3 billion company, and its future profits, to the fight against climate change. In his words, Earth is now the companys only...

Census data hides racial diversity of US 'Hispanics' – to the country's detriment

Oct 11, 2022 04:38 am UTC| Insights & Views

As I opened a recent email from my local grocery store chain advertising Hispanic Heritage Month it runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 each year I was surprised to see it highlighting recipes from four distinct regions:...

Nobel peace prize goes to Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian human rights activists

Oct 11, 2022 04:37 am UTC| Insights & Views

On the 70th birthday of Russian president Vladimir Putin, the Nobel prize committee has recognised the work of three winners who are all battling against Putin or pro-Putin regimes. The peace prize has gone to...

Hijab law in Iran over the decades: the continuing battle for reform

Oct 11, 2022 04:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Protests have quickly spread across Iran calling for a change in the law after the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of the morality police. The young woman was accused of violating rules on...

Nobel-winning quantum weirdness undergirds an emerging high-tech industry, promising better ways of encrypting communications and imaging your body

Oct 11, 2022 04:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

Unhackable communications devices, high-precision GPS and high-resolution medical imaging all have something in common. These technologies some under development and some already on the market all rely on the...