Stop shaming mothers who want to breastfeed their babies

Mar 15, 2016 11:52 am UTC| Life

When it comes to feeding babies, mothers are under a lot of pressure: pressure from healthcare professionals to breastfeed, pressure from companies to use formula milk and pressure from society to cover up in public and...

Explainer: how can twins have different fathers?

Mar 12, 2016 09:59 am UTC| Life

The recent report from northern Hòa Bình province in Vietnam of twins born to two different fathers has been making headlines around the world. The father of the twins took the infants for DNA tests where it...

How _not_ to be single

Mar 11, 2016 15:03 pm UTC| Entertainment Life

How should one be single today? This question, while arguably as old as marriage, has taken on an added significance since the rise of the internet. GPS-led social media apps, and particularly Tinder and its friends, have...

What will Italy's discerning coffee drinkers make of Starbucks?

Mar 11, 2016 14:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

With great humility and respect Starbucks has announced it intends to open its first outlets in Italy in 2017. For Howard Schultz, who transformed the Seattle roaster from 17 stores focused on selling coffee beans into a...

Why are we becoming so narcissistic? Here's the science

Mar 11, 2016 08:40 am UTC| Life

The subject of narcissism has intrigued people for centuries, but social scientists now claim that it has become a modern epidemic. So what is it, what has led to its increase, and is there anything we can do about...

Suicide isn't just an older man's problem

Mar 10, 2016 14:03 pm UTC| Life

Suicide data for Australia released this week show rates among young people are at the highest theyve been for over a decade, and now account for around one-third of all deaths in those aged 15 to 24. This increasing...

Emotionally intelligent employees may come with a dark side - manipulation

Mar 10, 2016 04:36 am UTC| Life

Employees who may seem emotionally intelligent and an asset to the workplace may also be emotionally manipulative and this may be detrimental to workplaces in the long run, preliminary findings of a survey show. The...