Fighting income inequality: the role business can play
May 23, 2016 23:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business Life
In recent months, debates about global economic inequality have reached boiling point. In Britain, voters will soon decide whether to exit the European Union against the backdrop of a growing Brexit movement fuelled by...
Speaking dialects trains the brain as well as bilingualism does
May 23, 2016 16:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
There has been a lot of research to back up the idea that people who use two or more languages everyday experience significant advantages. The brain-training involved in having to use a different language depending on the...
Delay in getting driving licences opens door to more sustainable travel
May 23, 2016 00:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
In early 2015, I wrote about the significant declines in the proportion of young people with a driving licence. However, at the time, significant questions remained unanswered. Were young adults forgoing cars entirely? Or...
Guide to the classics: The Histories, by Herodotus
May 23, 2016 00:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
It is easy to see why Herodotus Histories may seem overwhelming. Too much is going on, right from the start. We have only just embarked on the Histories central theme the origins of the conflict between Greeks and...
May 20, 2016 05:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
I taught myself about orphanages 12 years ago, not actually because of my work as a human biologist but because of my daughter. She was born in 2004 and her first 14 months of life were spent in an orphanage in China. I...
Millennials at work don't see themselves as millennials
May 20, 2016 04:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Reading the headlines on Gen Y, Gen X and millennials its clear many people believe distinct generational categories exist, that there are very real differences between them, and that organisations must manage these...
Chinese philosophy is missing from U.S. philosophy departments. Should we care?
May 19, 2016 07:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Philosophy has been a favorite whipping boy in the culture wars since 399 B.C., when an Athenian jury sentenced Socrates to death. Nowadays, philosophers are no longer accused of corrupting the youth. Instead, a...