Children's mental health needs to be at the heart of school policy
Mar 15, 2016 14:54 pm UTC| Life Law
Support for emotional health in schools is increasingly being recognised as less of a nice add-on and more of an essential practice. Research shows that school-based activities have a big role to play in supporting the...
How Afrikaner identity can be re-imagined in a post-apartheid world
Mar 15, 2016 12:22 pm UTC| Life
This article is a foundation essay. These are longer than usual and take a wider look at a key issue affecting society. In a post-apartheid context, is a democratic Afrikaner identity possible? Are there other...
Stop shaming mothers who want to breastfeed their babies
Mar 15, 2016 11:52 am UTC| Life
When it comes to feeding babies, mothers are under a lot of pressure: pressure from healthcare professionals to breastfeed, pressure from companies to use formula milk and pressure from society to cover up in public and...
Explainer: how can twins have different fathers?
Mar 12, 2016 09:59 am UTC| Life
The recent report from northern Hòa Bình province in Vietnam of twins born to two different fathers has been making headlines around the world. The father of the twins took the infants for DNA tests where it...
Mar 11, 2016 15:03 pm UTC| Entertainment Life
How should one be single today? This question, while arguably as old as marriage, has taken on an added significance since the rise of the internet. GPS-led social media apps, and particularly Tinder and its friends, have...
What will Italy's discerning coffee drinkers make of Starbucks?
Mar 11, 2016 14:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
With great humility and respect Starbucks has announced it intends to open its first outlets in Italy in 2017. For Howard Schultz, who transformed the Seattle roaster from 17 stores focused on selling coffee beans into a...
Why are we becoming so narcissistic? Here's the science
Mar 11, 2016 08:40 am UTC| Life
The subject of narcissism has intrigued people for centuries, but social scientists now claim that it has become a modern epidemic. So what is it, what has led to its increase, and is there anything we can do about...
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