The Middle East needs help with its long game: education and jobs for the young
Aug 09, 2016 09:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The future for many young people across the Middle East and North Africa looks bleak. The World Bank records that 54% of the working age population in the Middle East and North Africa is unemployed with little prospect of...
Record high global migration may give new meaning to 'diaspora'
Aug 08, 2016 04:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Groups of human beings have always moved or migrated from one geographic location to another. This phenomenon continues in the 21st century and is driven by national and international wars, globalization of local and...
Road rage: why normal people become harmful on the roads
Aug 06, 2016 09:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Anger can be very quick, powerful, reactive, and can make us do things we typically wouldnt do. There is nothing inherently wrong with anger as an emotion, but nowhere is anger less helpful, more common, and potentially...
Explainer: how student fees are set for different university courses
Aug 04, 2016 10:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The issue of how universities are funded across their different courses has been an ongoing but unresolved debate over the past decade. It has again come to the fore as the Commonwealth government considers responses to...
Is it true that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger?
Aug 04, 2016 10:12 am UTC| Life Insights & Views
It may seem that wise, strong people typically have gone through a few hard times in their lives. By comparison, those who have led a very sheltered and privileged life often appear to crack more easily under pressure. But...
The future of genetic enhancement is not in the West
Aug 02, 2016 05:42 am UTC| Science Life
Would you want to alter your future childrens genes to make them smarter, stronger or better-looking? As the state of the science brings prospects like these closer to reality, an international debate has been raging over...
Why many people don't talk about traumatic events until long after they occur
Aug 02, 2016 05:38 am UTC| Health Life
When longtime former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed suit July 6 for sexual harassment against the networks former boss, Roger Ailes, the public response was less than kind. There were expressed disbelief and...