Can we cancel 'cancel culture'?
Jul 24, 2021 06:51 am UTC| Life
Alexi McCammonds journalism career was rapidly ascending. She was a political reporter for Axios and a fixture on cable news. Jeffrey Toobin was an award-winning lawyer-turned-journalist. He wrote for The New Yorker,...
Pandemic has teens feeling worried, unmotivated and disconnected from school
Jul 24, 2021 05:53 am UTC| Life
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, many U.S. teens were more worried about the disruption to their education than the possibility of getting sick. A May 2020 survey of high school students found that they reported...
Generation COVID: pregnancy, birth and postnatal life in the pandemic
Jul 18, 2021 10:43 am UTC| Life
What was it like to be pregnant, to give birth and to look after a baby in the middle of a pandemic? For this Insights article, photographer and researcher of visual cultures James Clifford Kent teamed up with...
Lego demands US gunmaker stop making pistols that look like its toys
Jul 16, 2021 23:54 pm UTC| Economy Life
Danish toymaker Lego had asked Utah-based gun company Culper Precision to stop producing pistols that look like it is covered with their famous multi-colored building brick. Lego claimed that Culper Precision agreed not...
7-Eleven Japan steps up support for foreign workers in effort to retain them
Jul 11, 2021 00:04 am UTC| Economy Life
Seven-Eleven Japan Co will start programs supporting its foreign workers private and work life in efforts to retain them amid a labor shortage due to Japans graying population. The convenience store operator, which...
S.Korean employees back to remote working as country braces for worst-ever COVID-19 wave
Jul 09, 2021 23:54 pm UTC| Economy Life Business
South Koreas large corporations are ordering employees to work remotely as the country braces for the fourth wave of COVID-19 with the daily caseload rising to an all-time high of 1,316. The South Korean government will...
Today's intense workplace culture can be traced back to a forgotten Soviet coal miner – podcast
Jul 01, 2021 09:54 am UTC| Life
This episode of The Conversations In Depth Out Loud podcast features the story of a young Soviet miner named Alexei Stakhanov, and how the work ethic he embodied in the 1930s has been invoked by managers in the west ever...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects