Empty pews take a financial toll on many US congregations
Apr 30, 2020 08:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
As some 350,000 American churches and other houses of worship scramble to meet the spiritual and increasingly material needs of their members remotely, they are doing so on a tighter budget than usual. Thats because...
Four video games to boost your mood
Apr 21, 2020 12:34 pm UTC| Life
In her book How Games Move Us (2016), computer games researcher Katherine Isbister writes that her friends and colleagues believe that gaming might numb peoples emotions. Given the possible connection between games and...
How to celebrate Easter under lockdown
Apr 11, 2020 04:36 am UTC| Life
With churches closed and annual pilgrimages cancelled, Christians across the world are wondering how to give thanks to God this Easter. And not just Christians think also of Chreasters. Do you attend church only at...
Why Canadians and Americans are buying guns during the coronavirus pandemic
Apr 09, 2020 04:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge in gun sales. Estimates based on background checks show that an estimated 2.6 million guns were sold in the United States in March. That is an 85 per cent increase over the same...
Homeschooling during coronavirus: five ways to teach children about climate change
Apr 08, 2020 12:57 pm UTC| Life
Schools around the world have closed in reponse to the COVID-19 pandemic, so many families are finding themselves thrust into homeschooling. Parents are figuring out how to teach their children subjects like mathematics...
Social distancing and exercise: are active video games the solution?
Apr 04, 2020 07:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The social distancing measures and self-isolation initiated by the coronavirus pandemic has left people looking for new ways to exercise at home. Could active video games (AVGs) such as Pokemon Go and the recent hit Ring...
During coronavirus hospital surge, a midwife recommends home birth
Mar 23, 2020 07:38 am UTC| Life
For many health-care providers who worked through the 2003 SARS epidemic, especially in epicentres, like Toronto, the COVID-19 pandemic is a reminder of the many lessons health-care providers learned at that time. Social...
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’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects