50 years of bold predictions about remote work: it isn't all about technology

Apr 09, 2020 00:36 am UTC| Technology Insights & Views

If youre working from home for the first time, you might be asking yourself why you didnt get to do this years ago. The benefits of remote work have been discussed for nearly half a century. Many thinkers predicted a...

Hoarding during the coronavirus isn't just unnecessary, it's ethically wrong

Apr 08, 2020 13:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views

As people rush to stockpile provisions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, stores have placed restrictions on the purchase of basic goods and medicines. When supply chains are vulnerable to spikes in demand, one...

Striking Amazon, Instacart employees reveal how a basic economic principle could derail our ability to combat the coronavirus

Apr 08, 2020 12:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business

A series of recent protests by the workers preparing and delivering our essential foods and other goods highlights a key risk to our ability to combat the coronavirus. Some employees at an Amazon warehouse and Instacart...

Stop calling coronavirus pandemic a 'war'

Apr 08, 2020 12:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views

In speeches, commentaries and conversations about the coronavirus pandemic, we keep hearing war-like metaphors being deployed. It happens explicitly (we are at war, blitz spirit, war cabinet) and implicitly (threat,...

Porn use is up, thanks to the pandemic

Apr 08, 2020 12:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Across the globe, the coronavirus pandemic is affecting almost all aspects of daily life. Travel is down; jobless claims are up; and small businesses are struggling. But not all businesses are experiencing a downturn....

How Moi put foreign policy at the centre of his presidency

Apr 08, 2020 12:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Scholars have described the years during which Daniel arap Moi served as Kenyan president as the golden age of Kenyas diplomatic practice. Moi was the longest serving president of Kenya remaining in office from 1978 to...

A virtual Passover may be the first for many, but Judaism has a long history of ritual innovation

Apr 08, 2020 12:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the globe, it is affecting how families celebrate important religious events such as Easter, Passover and Ramadan, which would normally involve the gathering of families. For...