Seven tips for surviving the apocalypse
Mar 08, 2017 08:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Billionaires who have made their fortunes in Silicon Valley seem to be worried about the future. So worried in fact, that some of them are reportedly buying vast estates in places such as New Zealand, as apocalypse...
Contested spaces: you can't stop the music – the sounds that divide shoppers
Mar 08, 2017 05:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Sound is everywhere. In urban areas, it forms part of how we feel about and negotiate various social settings. The space we focus on here is the retail environment. Based on interviews with shoppers about the kinds of...
Despite differences in culture, US and India fall short in childbirth in similar ways
Mar 08, 2017 05:06 am UTC| Life
After eight years of practicing obstetrics and researching childbirth in the United States, I know as well as anyone that the American maternal health system could be better. Our way of childbirth is the costliest in the...
Here's why your gut instinct is wrong at work – and how to know when it isn't
Mar 08, 2017 04:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Lets say youre interviewing a new applicant for a job and you feel something is off. You cant quite put your finger on it, but youre a bit uncomfortable with this person. She says all the right things, her resume is great,...
How to use digital devices this Lent for holy reflection
Mar 08, 2017 04:55 am UTC| Life
The season of Lent is upon us. This is a holy season for Christians who seek to identify with Jesus Christs 40 days of fasting as he prepared to be tested and later crucified. In order to identify with Christs...
Contested spaces: a user's guide to shared paths
Mar 08, 2017 02:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Evidence suggests that transport modes (walking, cycling, public transport, private motor vehicles) should be separated wherever possible. However, this isnt always the case. In all Australian states except Victoria...
Betroffenheit, when the mind and body get stuck
Mar 06, 2017 14:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
What happens when words fail us, when we are in that depthless black void where action, non-action, and all forms of interpersonal communication fail us? The state where the loss is so unbearable, so unspeakable, that we...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects