Red meat study caused a stir – here's what wasn't discussed

Oct 09, 2019 13:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Accurate, consistent dietary advice seems increasingly hard to find. For instance, a widely reported study recently claimed that people dont need to reduce their consumption of red and processed meat for health reasons....

B Corp certification won't guarantee companies really care for people, planet and profit

Oct 09, 2019 13:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

Weeks after the collapse of his restaurant group and the loss of 1,000 jobs, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver announced that he was creating an ethical B Corporation or B Corp, a sort of company certification designed to show...

Domain name fraud: is the global Internet in danger?

Oct 09, 2019 13:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

In late February 2019, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that manages the IP addresses and domain names used on the web, issued a warning on the risks of systemic Internet...

Governments took the hard road on clean energy – and consumers are feeling the bumps

Oct 09, 2019 13:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views

More than two years on from the sudden closure of Victorias Hazelwood coal power station, quite a mess remains. It is clear the federal governments market interventions have not worked. Electricity prices are higher and...

How sports and arts can help prevent youth homelessness

Oct 09, 2019 13:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

Despite decades of policy and programming, youth homelessness remains an urgent issue in many communities across Canada. Almost 50 per cent of adults experiencing homelessness first became homeless before the age of 25,...

Still at war with the tobacco epidemic, Indonesia must control e-cigarettes too

Oct 09, 2019 13:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Several countries are banning e-cigarettes due to revelations of health risks to both users and bystanders. But in Indonesia, the worlds second-largest cigarette market, the government has yet to put in place policies...

Nobel Prize in Physics: James Peebles, master of the universe, shares award

Oct 09, 2019 11:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

During the press conference in which he was revealed as one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics, James (Jim) Peebles was asked to point to a single discovery or breakthrough from his long career that would...