Britain's European food connection pre-dates the EU and will survive Brexit
Feb 04, 2020 13:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The EU and the UK are now negotiating the terms of their new relationship after Brexit. Food supply problems are a very real potential problem, but we are also having a food-related identity crisis: what will happen to our...
Over-parenting teaches children to be entitled – let them fail and learn to be resilient instead
Feb 04, 2020 12:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
During the last couple of decades, new types of parents have emerged. From the anxiously involved helicopter parents to the pushy tiger mums, these differing styles all have one thing in common: they tend to involve...
A Finnish phenomenon: Where students learn how to ask, not only answer, questions
Feb 04, 2020 12:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
All four teacher unions in Ontario are in the midst of labour unrest. Teachers in Ontario have long had the right to strike, and when the province threatened this right in 2012, the courts upheld it. While the list...
Charles Dickens: newly discovered documents reveal truth about his death and burial
Feb 04, 2020 12:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
When Charles Dickens died, he had spectacular fame, great wealth and an adoring public. But his personal life was complicated. Separated from his wife and living in a huge country mansion in Kent, the novelist was in the...
Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don't fit their worldview
Feb 03, 2020 12:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Something is rotten in the state of American political life. The U.S. (among other nations) is increasingly characterized by highly polarized, informationally insulated ideological communities occupying their own factual...
Our image of dinosaurs was shaped by Victorian popularity contests
Feb 03, 2020 12:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Our understanding of dinosaurs is undergoing a revolution. Thanks to new research, animals that were until recently depicted with a sleek coat of scales now sport feathers, quills, spines and fluff. But not everyone has...
A world of heroes and villains: why we should challenge children's simplistic moral beliefs
Feb 03, 2020 12:24 pm UTC| Life
The protagonist of the decorum-defying but wildly entertaining new film, Jojo Rabbit, sees the world in black and white. The film is set in Nazi Germany and ten-year-old Jojo is a fiercely committed member of the Hitler...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects