Retelling the biblical Book of Exodus through the eyes of children
Jun 02, 2017 11:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The biblical Book of Exodus tells story of the children of Israel and their liberation from slavery in Egypt. Moses, who as a child is nearly killed, tries to convince the Pharoah to free the Israelites. God sends ten...
It will take critical, thorough scrutiny to truly decolonise knowledge
Jun 01, 2017 14:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
It has become unfashionable to admit that one doesnt really understand what phrases like decolonising knowledge or a decolonised curriculum mean. This is unfortunate. The process of coming to understand what decolonisation...
Study: US cities have worse inequality than Mexico, with rich and poor living side by side
Jun 01, 2017 13:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The cities of the Americas are unequal places. US census data and recent American Community Surveys show that in most modern American metropolises, resources are unevenly distributed across the city think New York...
Spending cuts may have contributed to falling teenage pregnancy rates
May 30, 2017 10:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Austerity cuts may have contributed to lower rates of teenage pregnancy in England. It may seem a surprising result, but that is what our analysis of cuts by local authorities to teenage pregnancy programmes has...
Why you're almost certainly wasting time rinsing your recycling
May 29, 2017 05:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Once a fortnight we diligently wheel our recycling bin to the kerb, and then probably give ourselves a pat on the back while thinking of all the useful products we have helped to create, and the resources and energy we...
In razing its modernist buildings, Iran is erasing its past Western influence
May 27, 2017 04:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Hassan Rouhanis re-election as Irans president has rekindled hope for liberals in the country. During his first term, Iran began edging closer to the West, and his positions on both international and domestic affairs...
Fighting for your knife: law, religion and parmesan in multicultural Italy
May 27, 2017 04:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
On May 15 2017, the Italian Court of Cassation, the highest court of appeal, issued a verdict ruling that Sikh men in Italy cannot carry the kirpan, the sacred dagger that represents one of the five holy customs Sikhs must...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight