Want to inspire kids to learn STEM? Get them to build a robot
Mar 22, 2016 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The music is pumping, the crowd is cheering and people are dancing. This is science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), but not as you know it. Im at the Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre as an invited judge for...
The long and the short of it: eight reasons why short men come up short
Mar 22, 2016 00:48 am UTC| Life
Spurned by women, more likely to end up in jail, doomed to earn less, destined to languish in poorly paid jobs, plagued by feelings of inferiority and coming up short where coming up matters most, youd think life had dealt...
A nation at risk -- how gifted, low-income kids are left behind
Mar 21, 2016 14:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education published A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, which documented widespread academic underachievement at every level, concluding: For the...
How the Grand Canyon changed our ideas of natural beauty
Mar 21, 2016 14:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Few sights are as instantly recognizable, and few sites speak more fully to American nationalism. Standing on the South Rim in 1903, President Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed it one of the great sights every American should...
Is 'internet addiction’ a misnomer?
Mar 21, 2016 14:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
A recent study by Phil Reed and colleagues provides some experimental evidence that internet addicts may be conditioned by what they view on the screen. I was the first person in the world to publish an academic paper...
Let's stop with the frozen food snobbery
Mar 18, 2016 15:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Its fair to say that frozen food has a bit of an image problem. One in three Britons believe it is inferior to fresh food, and 43% say that nothing could persuade them to buy more frozen fare. Confidence in the sector was...
Grand Theft Auto doesn't cause crime, but poverty and alienation will
Mar 18, 2016 10:50 am UTC| Life Entertainment
Auto related crimes have increased 20 per cent in Melbourne over the last five years with police citing 16,000 cars stolen in 2015. And Victorias Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton is reportedly attributing a rise in thefts...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects