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The current education system lends itself to heightened stress levels among staff – and the empowerment of bullies.
Low fibre eaters gain weight more quickly and may be more susceptible to certain illnesses.
Religious organisations and community initiatives succeed where disoriented liberal politicians fail.
No amount of whittling down dating criteria to glasses, beards, or tattoos will allow you to bypass the simple fact that finding someone takes work.
Theresa May has dropped her pledge to put workers on company boards. It’s a big concession to vested business interests.
The people at risk are the ones who need to be listened to.
Here’s your chance to take part in a global science experiment.
The ‘elite’ can never be a scapegoat.
Apple can learn a lot from Google Glass and other augmented reality glasses.
There’s a problematic bias in the way that assisted suicide is portrayed in the media.
It’s uncertain whether we’ll ever be able to bring cryogenically frozen people back to life. Should we even try?
One swashbuckling charioteer earned the equivalent of US$15 billion.
Dennis Potter’s 1986 story of a writer in need of psychological renewal rewrote the TV drama rulebook.
More than 95% of industrial diamonds are synthetic so why aren’t more people using them in engagement rings?
Understanding how genes influence people’s behaviour doesn’t lead to fatalism.
Researchers have created a new kind of ‘drugalyser’ that’s less likely to give false positive readings.
The island’s latest mining boom threatens a critically endangered lemur – and puts human lives at risk.
The former president has lost out to his own prime minister in the first round of the Republican primary.
Technology can help identify and weed out fake news.
The past few years have been tough for the German chancellor, but she has confirmed that she will be standing in the next election.
Highly restrictive speech codes are now the norm in some of the world’s universities.
The Indian government recently demonetised 86% of its country’s cash – and kicked off a logistical nightmare.
He was criticised for leaning on the crutch of his guitar, but if Dylan leaned on anything, it was his love of poetry.
The disdain for human life that underpinned the British Empire has been brought home.