Judaism's rituals to honor new mothers are ever-rooted, ever-changing – from medieval embroidery and prayer to new traditions today

May 11, 2023 15:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Reading the Torah, there is no doubt about motherhoods important role in Jewish literature and life. The Hebrew Bible is replete with stories of women who feel incomplete without children, although Orthodox...

Media freedom and democracy: Africans in four countries weigh up thorny questions about state control

May 11, 2023 15:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views

In July 2022, BBC Africa Eye released a documentary on gang activity in northwestern Nigeria. The programme, The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara, examined the raids on villages, abductions and murders that have plagued swaths...

Climate: modelling micro-algae to better understand the workings of the ocean

May 11, 2023 15:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views

The ocean absorbs a quarter of the CO₂ given out by human activities, playing a major role in slowing climate change. To have a better grasp of these processes is crucial to understand the oceans role in the global climate...

Gen Z goes retro: Why the younger generation is ditching smartphones for 'dumb phones'

May 11, 2023 15:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views

There is a growing movement among Gen Z to do away with smartphones and revert back to less smart phones like old-school flip and slide phones. Flip phones were popular in the mid-1990s and 2000s, but now seem to be making...

Green hydrogen funding is a step forward – but a step doesn't win the race

May 11, 2023 15:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views

It sounds like a lot. Kickstarting green hydrogen in Australia with A$2 billion to subsidise early production and making the energy-dense gas competitive. A goal of up to a gigawatt of electrolyser capacity within seven...

Excessive personal consumption has serious global consequences

May 11, 2023 15:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Climate change is a global problem. Its origin is less so, however, because we do not all contribute equally: the countries that suffer the most from the impacts of climate change are precisely those that are the least...

Israel at 75: how inept British intelligence failed to contain Jewish independence groups

May 11, 2023 15:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Before they were Israeli, the Jewish community of Palestine the Yishuv had been Britains close junior partner. A dispute over Britains restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine began in 1939, but was set aside...