Communities plagued by uninsurance also suffer from breakdowns in trust, social connection
Jan 27, 2017 02:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Dismantling the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without a replacement plan is projected to increase the nations uninsured population by 18 million in the first year after repeal and by 32 million in 2026, according to recent...
Food security: we throw away a third of the food we grow – here's what to do about waste
Jan 26, 2017 15:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
In the UK, roughly a third of the food grown in the field never actually makes into anybodys mouth. For every three pigs raised on a farm, the equivalent of one will ultimately be sent to landfill. A third of all apples,...
Welcome to the age of collective narcissism
Jan 26, 2017 14:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Consider slogans such as Make America great again, used by Donald Trump, or Take back control, used by the Brexit campaign. They suggest that in the US and the UK, the unique position of the nation has somehow been...
How the graphic novel got its misleading moniker
Jan 26, 2017 06:37 am UTC| Life
From Jan. 26 to 29, hundreds of thousands of people will convene in the French town of Angoulme to celebrate a very specific form of storytelling. The French call it bandes dessinées, or drawn strips. In America,...
Rich and famous lifestyles are damaging the environment in untold ways
Jan 25, 2017 00:21 am UTC| Life Nature
To be rich is a thing that many in our society spend their whole lives striving for. Not having to worry about money and indeed, splashing it on designer clothes, chains of diamonds and private planes is seen by some to be...
Does the price of your shampoo affect how clean your hair is? Here's the science
Jan 24, 2017 15:42 pm UTC| Life
How do you choose which shampoo to buy? Do you take the advice of your hairdresser or believe the adverts you see in magazines or on television? Perhaps you just opt for the brand on special offer in the supermarket? Most...
Food security looks very different depending on where you are sitting
Jan 23, 2017 00:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
In 1974, the World Food Conference declared that: Every man, woman and child has the inalienable right to be free from hunger and malnutrition in order to develop their physical and mental faculties. The conference set as...
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