Natural supplements can be dangerously contaminated, or not even have the specified ingredients

Feb 18, 2020 01:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

More than two-thirds of Americans take dietary supplements. The vast majority of consumers 84% are confident the products are safe and effective. They should not be so trusting. Im a professor of pharmacy practice...

Out-of-context photos are a powerful low-tech form of misinformation

Feb 18, 2020 01:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

When you think of visual misinformation, maybe you think of deepfakes videos that appear real but have actually been created using powerful video editing algorithms. The creators edit celebrities into pornographic movies,...

China Crisis Series

Coronavirus: the blow to the Chinese economy could be felt for years

Feb 18, 2020 01:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Investors are still being fairly complacent about the novel coronavirus. After the number of new daily cases suddenly shot up to more than 15,000 on February 12 following more than a week of decline, there were some...

Think the US is more polarized than ever? You don't know history

Feb 18, 2020 01:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

It has become common to say that the United States in 2020 is more divided politically and culturally than at any other point in our national past. As a historian who has written and taught about the Civil War era for...

Critical minerals are vital for renewable energy. We must learn to mine them responsibly

Feb 18, 2020 01:18 am UTC| Insights & Views

As the world shifts away from fossil fuels, we will need to produce enormous numbers of wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries. Demand for the materials needed to build them will skyrocket. This...

Parasite's win is the perfect excuse to get stuck into genre-bending and exciting Korean cinema

Feb 18, 2020 01:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

Parasite, the South Korean film directed by Bong Joon-ho, received four Oscars at this years Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film. It was an historic...

In the midst of an LNG export boom, why are we getting so little for our gas?

Feb 18, 2020 01:16 am UTC| Insights & Views

So worried is the government about the meagre income it is getting from gas during the middle of Australias biggest gas export boom that it asked an independent advisor to chair a review and is getting the treasury to run...