Disasters can harm older adults long after storms have passed
Aug 11, 2017 05:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
My phone rang around midnight: A major hurricane was predicted to hit a nearby coastal town, which was under a mandatory evacuation order. Many of the staff at a large hospital there had already evacuated, and an unknown...
A memo to Google - firing employees with conservative views is anti-diversity
Aug 11, 2017 04:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Googles recent sacking of James Damore for circulating a memo will do the tech giant more harm than good. Not only has the memo been incorrectly dubbed anti-diversity, but the document has also received widespread support...
Better medical education: One solution to the opioid crisis
Aug 08, 2017 14:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
We are in the middle of an overdose crisis in Canada and around the world. Opioid overdose is a complex problem, but opioid addiction can be managed with effective interventions. Nonetheless, many evidence-based...
How do you know that what you know is true? That's epistemology
Aug 07, 2017 07:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
How do you know what the weather will be like tomorrow? How do you know how old the Universe is? How do you know if you are thinking rationally? These and other questions of the how do you know? variety are the business...
Having more, owning less: how to fight throwaway culture
Aug 03, 2017 16:32 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Until the advent of cheap credit and cheaper item costs, for many consumers in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s rental was the most accessible way of obtaining products such as televisions, video recorders and washing machines...
Why Japan’s tsunami survivors risked everything for their belongings
Aug 02, 2017 17:28 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Life
The massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 led to the loss of some 24,000 lives. In the aftermath, there was much finger pointing as authorities tried to figure out why, despite rigorous...
Is there such a thing as a 'true self'?
Jul 31, 2017 09:01 am UTC| Life
To thine own self be true, the saying goes. It is often taken as sage advice, a remnant scrap of Elizabethan life coaching, but Shakespeare may have meant it to be heard as a stale platitude. He puts it in the mouth of...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects