Trump’s big bet on career and technical education
Shaun M. Dougherty, Vanderbilt University
President Donald Trump has proposed one of the largest increases in funding for career and technical education in recent history.
As...
BMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management...
Scott Hagan, University of Washington
Amid the buzz around weight loss drugs and rising rates of obesity worldwide, many...
What makes a business graduate more employable?
By Clive Holtham, City University London
The moment an undergraduate student starts a business degree, their mind is already geared to the job offers they...
We’ve hit peak obesity, but tough measures still needed to tackle waistlines
By Lisa Rutherford, ScotCen Social Research
Many of us are well versed in the negative health consequences of being obese. For those of us who...
Charity case: can philanthropic journalism last?
By Bill Birnbauer, Monash University
Despite rapid growth in the number of non-profit investigative centres in the United States and many fine examples of quality...
How smugglers are shifting staggering amounts of contraband despite the pandemic
Alexander Kupatadze, King's College London
On July 1, Italian police made the largest amphetamine seizure in the world. At the port of Salerno, just south...
From scourge to saviour: using viruses to treat serious disease
By Dave Hawkes, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Viruses have traditionally been mankind’s enemies, causing disease and often mutating out of the...
Long before Armstrong and Aldrin, artists were stoking dreams of space travel
Anne Collins Goodyear, Bowdoin College
In the midst of the space race, Hereward Lester Cooke, the former co-director of the NASA Art Program, observed, “Space...
