China wrestles with contested heritage of conflict and colonial rule

Jan 07, 2019 12:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views

China often makes headlines on a great variety of topics, yet very little is said and known about its contested heritage. At a time when this country with a complex and rich history is undergoing rapid urbanisation, one...

What is really eating Apple – and why Steve Jobs would not be doing a lot better

Jan 04, 2019 16:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Apple has started the new year by disappointing investors with its first profit warning in 17 years. The company said that poor sales of its latest range of iPhones has helped to weaken its first financial quarter...

Dealing with devil has long been a part of medicine

Jan 04, 2019 16:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

In the winter of 1566, 30 children in Amsterdam began to show signs of a disturbing affliction. The symptoms would strike without warning: the children would at first be seized by a violent frenzy, then fall to the ground,...

Generation rent is a myth – housing prospects for millennials are determined by class

Jan 04, 2019 16:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate

Millennials have been labelled generation rent, as growing numbers of young people are renting their homes for longer periods of their lives than their parents generation. Home ownership and social housing are increasingly...

China goes where no one has gone before – the moon's far side

Jan 04, 2019 16:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

In a spectacular few days for solar system exploration during which NASA whizzed the New Horizons spacecraft past the Kuiper Belt object 2009 MU69 (somewhat controversially nicknamed Ultima Thule) and eased OSIRIS-REx...

Health insurers want you to try cheaper drugs first, but that can hurt you

Jan 04, 2019 16:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Few people are familiar with the term step therapy, but most Americans have health insurance policies that adopt it. Step therapy programs, also known as fail first policies, require patients to try less expensive...

Should children as young as 12 be sent to juvenile detention?

Jan 04, 2019 16:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

Children under 12 will no longer be treated as criminals in the state of California when they break the law, based on a new law that went into effect on Jan. 1. Before the law was passed, California had no minimum age...