Why Easter is called Easter, and other little-known facts about the holiday
Apr 12, 2017 15:15 pm UTC| Life
This Sunday, April 16, Christians will be celebrating Easter, the day on which the resurrection of Jesus is said to have taken place. The date of celebration changes from year to year. The reason for this variation is...
Selfie culture isn't the root of all evil
Apr 12, 2017 14:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The idea that selfies are somehow damaging our mental health is spreading. There is concern that there may be a link between an apparent recent rise in mental health concerns in millennials and taking, editing and posting...
Could Spanish mass 'eat and run' incidents actually be a protest against inequality?
Apr 11, 2017 14:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Waiters and restaurateurs across Europe could be forgiven for being a little quick with the bill, after large-scale eat and run incidents in Spain have left two restaurants thousands of euros out of pocket. In what the...
Archaeological finds prove that fear of the walking dead was very real to medieval minds
Apr 11, 2017 13:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Zombies have long been an object of fascination: horror film director George Romero has championed the zombie film since Night of the Living Dead almost 50 years ago, and recent revivals have meant that talk of the zombie...
The sound of inclusion: Why teachers' words matter
Apr 11, 2017 05:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
There isnt just one way to sound like a scientist, or to sound like a scholar. Scientists and scholars come from a wide variety of backgrounds and speak in different ways, in different accents, dialects and...
The Case for Christ: What's the evidence for the resurrection?
Apr 08, 2017 05:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
In 1998, Lee Strobel, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and a graduate of Yale Law School, published The Case for Christ: A Journalists Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. Strobel had formerly been an...
Thing-ification: why the human face of work needs to be brought back in
Apr 02, 2017 02:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Life
At work, do you feel like a disposable financial asset, or part of a family; a cog in the machine, or a human being on a team? How your company treats you can have a huge effect on your well-being and the success of the...
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