Essays

When we hear about the horrors of industrial livestock farming – the pollution, the waste, the miserable lives of billions of animals – it is hard not to feel

April 22 is Earth Day, one of the world’s largest environmental movements against climate change. It’s a time when people around the world come together to defend the environment against the impact of humans.

In the run-up to Easter, it is customary for Egypt’s Coptic Christians to go to church every evening.

Google could lose as much as $750 million because of a boycott by advertisers, according to Nomura Research.

A record-breaking 8m students will graduate from Chinese universities in 2017.

The idea of a life lived modestly is gaining traction. Ten years ago, Samantha Weinberg, a mother of two young children, spent a year not shopping.

What if every citizen had a guaranteed income, regardless of whether they are at work? In an age of austerity and the rolling back of social policies, this idea may sound radical – but it is gaining momentum.

This February, more than 100 gravestones were vandalized at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society Cemetery outside of St.

Martin Rees is Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, at the University of Cambridge, the Astronomer Royal, a member of Britain’s House of Lords, and a former President of the Royal Society.

The international media – particularly U.S. print and broadcast outlets -- are accustomed to high tension with the governments they cover in Washington. The press has always relished its adversarial, intrusive and disruptive role, and presidents have never liked it. In the 1930s H.L.

Touch underpins our social world and, evidence suggests, it may even help to reduce anxiety and provide pain relief. But can touch shape the actual organisation of our brains?

More than 350 million people worldwide suffer from type 2 diabetes. The condition is already rampant in several Western countries and numbers are now rising fast in emerging economies, such as India and China.

Children are manifesting increased rates of adult diseases like hypertension or high triglycerides.

Academic psychologists have promulgated the myth that wisdom hinders creativity.

MADISON – A Dutch demagogue stirs up his followers in a campaign against immigrants.