Humans light 85% of bushfires, and we do virtually nothing to stop it

Nov 19, 2019 02:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Its hard to comprehend why someone would deliberately light a bushfire. Yet this behaviour regularly occurs in Australia and other countries. We would go a long way to preventing bushfires if we better understood this...

Leaked documents on China detention camps – a Uighur expert explains the key revelations

Nov 19, 2019 02:47 am UTC| Insights & Views

This past weekend, The New York Times China correspondents, Chris Buckley and Austin Ramzy, published an expose of over 400 internal Chinese government documents relating to Beijings mass detentions of Uighurs, Kazakhs and...

Global Geopolitics Series

China's relationships with Greece and Italy are deepening – EU is reaping exactly what it sowed

Nov 19, 2019 02:46 am UTC| Insights & Views

The eurozone has emerged from its debt crisis of 2010-18 intact, but at a very high cost to the periphery. Greeces exit from its third bailout in August 2018, the swan song of the crisis, is perceived as successful only...

How the Armenian diaspora forged coalitions to push for genocide recognition

Nov 19, 2019 02:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

When Turkeys president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited the White House on November 13, he said a landmark resolution passed by the House of Representatives in October recognising the Armenian genocide had hurt deeply the...

Sleep-training and babies: why 'crying it out' is best avoided

Nov 19, 2019 02:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

A full nights sleep will be near the top of many parents wish lists. Sleep deprivation is no fun and many parents find themselves turning to baby care books that promise to train their child to sleep through the...

Vital Signs Series

To tackle unemployment, start by empowering jobseekers

Nov 19, 2019 02:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

If youve ever lost your job, youll know how overwhelming and difficult it can be. One day youre in work, the next youre not and so starts the hunt to find another job. This can be particularly tricky if you lose your...

Tesla's business strategy is not chaotic – it's brilliant

Nov 19, 2019 02:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

Few companies have attracted as much praise, derision, scepticism and enthusiasm as Telsa Motors and its founder Elon Musk. Having interviewed Elon Musk and the Tesla leadership as part of my research, one of the questions...