Guide to make a smart choice between crypto-exchanges

Dec 20, 2018 09:47 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views

In order to optimize the trading practice of Cryptocurrencies, one should be aware of prerequisites and well-equipped with the superior services offered by the exchanges, that would be highly essential. The exchanges you...

Legalizing once-illicit substances can have a public health impact

Dec 19, 2018 15:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

Since Californias decision to allow for legal medicinal marijuana in 1996, a number of American states have followed its lead and taken a decidedly different tack in their approach to the market for cannabis. This has...

Genocide: 70 years on, three reasons why the UN Convention is still failing

Dec 19, 2018 15:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Seventy years after the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide came into force, its effectiveness is disputed. Jewish laywer and Polish refugee, Raphael Lemkin, coined the word genocide...

Plain packaging for tobacco: what other countries can learn from the UK's experience

Dec 19, 2018 15:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business

Bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, sponsorship and open display in shops in the UK encouraged tobacco companies to make the pack the hero. So they opposed plain packaging and claimed there was no evidence it would...

Prevent counter-terrorism strategy remains unfair on British Muslims, despite Home Office efforts

Dec 19, 2018 15:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

The Home Office responded to concerns over the effectiveness, legitimacy and transparency of its controversial counter-terrorism strategy, Prevent, by making fresh data available for public scrutiny in mid December. The...

The problem with using psychoanalysis on children

Dec 19, 2018 15:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Children with problems or problem children? That is the question often asked by parents and teachers alike. If a child is naughty in school, are they a bad child or are they facing mental ill health? Most analysis...

If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you could buy the NFL, Apple and Microsoft

Dec 19, 2018 15:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports

This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Societys International Statistic of the Year. On Dec. 18, we announced the winner: 90.5 percent, the amount of plastic that has never been recycled....