Want to do something good for your health? Try being generous

Nov 30, 2015 16:19 pm UTC| Life Health

Every day, we are confronted with choices about how to spend our money. Whether its thinking about picking up the tab at a group lunch or when a charity calls asking for a donation, we are faced with the decision to behave...

Purging daily demons: what's behind the popularity of exorcisms?

Nov 30, 2015 16:14 pm UTC| Life

At Texas State University, I teach an honors course called Demonology, Possession, and Exorcism. Its not a gut course. My students produce research papers on topics that range from the role of sleep paralysis in reports of...

Asking whether porn causes sexual violence is the wrong question

Nov 30, 2015 15:56 pm UTC| Life

The idea that pornography causes or is at least linked to sexual violence is often simply accepted without question. We hear the association in court cases, political debate and media coverage of crimes, where the...

Domestic violence and Facebook: harassment takes new forms in the social media age

Nov 30, 2015 03:47 am UTC| Life Technology

Domestic violence is now widely recognised as a national crisis. However, there are significant gaps in responses to the intimate violence enabled by social media platforms like Facebook. Cyberstalking, non-consensual...

The world is more educated than it's ever been – how?

Nov 27, 2015 06:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

More people are going to school and university than ever before. Thats the largely positive picture of the state of education across the world published recently by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...

Cinemas Refuse To Screen Church of England Ad

Nov 25, 2015 11:13 am UTC| Business Life

The UKs three leading cinema chains the Odeon, Cineworld and Vue have refused to screen a 60-second advert by the Church of England that features the Lords Prayer, over fears that some people could be offended by it, The...

‘A relentlessly dull world’ – the case for adding more colour to NZ’s grey prisons

| Insights & Views Life

Prisons are not colourful places. Typically, they are grey or some variation of a monochrome colour scheme. But increasingly, such a limited palette is being questioned for its impact on health and rehabilitation. As the...