Why sitting is not the 'new smoking'
Feb 16, 2017 00:54 am UTC| Life Health
Sitting has been branded the new smoking for its supposed public health risks, especially for people with sit-down office jobs. Over the past 15 years or so sitting has been linked with cancer, heart disease and...
Clementine Ford and Lindy West talk Twitter and life on and off the Internet
Feb 15, 2017 06:22 am UTC| Life
Clementine Ford and Lindy West, doyennes of the internet and social media, feminists, and writers, are travelling to Perth, Western Australia to appear at the Perth Writers Festival. Both of these writers are truly at...
Rethinking how we assess learning in schools
Feb 07, 2017 03:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
In this series well explore how to improve schools in Australia. Some of the most prominent experts in the sector tackle key questions, including why we are not seeing much progress; whether we are assessing children in...
The question employers are wary to ask: when are you going to retire?
Feb 06, 2017 18:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
There is a new taboo in the workplace: retirement. Age discrimination legislation and the abolition of the default retirement age means that companies are worried about talking to older workers about retiring, for fear of...
Politicians must account for the deaths of 94 psychiatric patients in South Africa
Feb 06, 2017 17:14 pm UTC| Life Politics
The MEC for Health in Gauteng, South Africas wealthiest province, resigned on Tuesday 31 January just before the release of a report into the deaths of 94 mental health patients. Qedani Mahlangus post is the equivalent of...
Life in an Arab-American community under Trump’s ‘Muslim ban'
Feb 03, 2017 16:37 pm UTC| Life
Life goes on for the parents who drop off their children at homework club, or those rushing in late for embroidery class. As usual, the community centre where Im doing my fieldwork in northern New Jersey is filled with the...
Hard work, not 'Confucian' mentality, underpins Chinese success overseas
Feb 03, 2017 07:48 am UTC| Life
Our study of ethnically Chinese people in Malaysia shows some of the assumptions about what leads to their business success might be wrong. Past studies point to traditional Confucian values and a refugee mentality as a...
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