Tempers fray in Beirut.Reuters/Aziz TaherA simmering revolution of sorts is in the offing in Lebanon. People have taken to the streets to protest against the government’s inability to find a solution to the mounting trash collection problem, even going so far as to occupy a government ministry.
The government remains incapable of defusing the...
Temptation.lynn.gardner/flickr, CC BY-NC-SAWhat we think others do, and what we think they approve of, are factors that have an important influence on our own behaviour. In other words, “social norms” matter.
But, as a new survey shows, our perceptions about these norms are very often wrong. In fact, we tend to think the worst of other...
Bleak house.SomeDriftwood/Flickr, CC BY-NCA major survey of more than 20,000 people in the UK has found that women living in poor areas are almost twice as likely to develop clinical anxiety as women in richer areas. Interestingly, living in poorer or richer areas made no difference to the levels of generalised anxiety disorder experienced by men.
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New Delhi's Yamuna River, like much of India's water, is polluted. The world urgently needs low-carbon ways to clean things up.EPA/Harish TyagiMuch of the world still lacks clean, safe water. Progress on sanitation is falling far short of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. The scale of the problem is highlighted by India, where...
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