#GivingTuesday after Cyber Monday Campaigns For Charity In New York City
Dec 02, 2015 23:59 pm UTC| Life
After the crazy shopping Cyber Monday has incited, a four year-old movement is encouraging shoppers to get something not for their personal selves, but for charity. Henry Timms, 92nd Street Ys Executive Director and...
Beijing Smog Problem Worsens Amid Climate Change Summit
Dec 02, 2015 12:26 pm UTC| Life Nature
On Monday, Chinese netizens saw the streets of Beijing blanketed in the thickest, hazardous smoke the country has seen. Reuters said Beijing maintained the second-highest orange level alert on Monday, forcing major...
U.S. High Net Worth Individual Wealth Grew by More Than a Trillion Dollars in 2014
Dec 02, 2015 07:30 am UTC| Life
Growth of the High Net Worth Individual (HNWI)1population and wealth in the United States reached record levels in 2014 maintaining its status as the largest HNWI market globally, according to the U.S. Wealth Report 2015...
We need to talk about how Islamic State interprets Islam
Dec 01, 2015 00:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Since capturing swathes of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State has embarked on a cyber-offensive to spread its message through social media. A great effort has been made to block and remove the content, to understand how this...
Want to do something good for your health? Try being generous
Nov 30, 2015 16:19 pm UTC| Life Health
Every day, we are confronted with choices about how to spend our money. Whether its thinking about picking up the tab at a group lunch or when a charity calls asking for a donation, we are faced with the decision to behave...
Purging daily demons: what's behind the popularity of exorcisms?
Nov 30, 2015 16:14 pm UTC| Life
At Texas State University, I teach an honors course called Demonology, Possession, and Exorcism. Its not a gut course. My students produce research papers on topics that range from the role of sleep paralysis in reports of...
Asking whether porn causes sexual violence is the wrong question
Nov 30, 2015 15:56 pm UTC| Life
The idea that pornography causes or is at least linked to sexual violence is often simply accepted without question. We hear the association in court cases, political debate and media coverage of crimes, where the...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight