Saving Babies' Lives By Carrying Them Like Kangaroos

Carmela Torres was 18 when she became pregnant for the first time. It was 1987 and she and her now-husband, Pablo Hernandez, were two idealistic young Colombians born in th...

ERM Power Criticised For Choosing $123m Fine Over Renewable Energy Certificates

The Clean Energy Regulator has castigated a major electricity company for choosing to pay a $123m penalty rather than build or contract new wind or solar power.
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SMS Contraceptive- Condoms Are Just A Click Away

What does it take for a startup to break-even within a month of its launch? The secret is to sell a product which is high on demand, but has supply barriers. SMS Contracept...

"Disability rights must be strengthened legally"

"The legal framework of India itself discriminates against people with disabilities," said Rajiv Rajan, Human Rights Law Network, here on Wednesday. He was addressing an or...

Desert 'fog catchers' make water out of thin air

Fog harvesting was devised in South America in the 1980s and there are active projects in various countries including Chile, Peru, Ghana, Eritrea, South Africa and Californ...

Doctors Need To Think Beyond The Pill For Contraception

The pill revolutionised society when it was introduced in Australia 55 years ago but now scientists are lobbying GPs to offer women alternative and more effective options.<...

Gender Pay Gap Is Difficult To Even Identify In Hollywood: Chris Evans

Chris Evans says gender pay gap is so ingrained in the film industry that sometimes it is difficult to even identify it.
The Captain America: Civil War star believes H...

The Ethics Of Commercial Surrogacy: Gender Inequality Arguments

This is a follow-up to the previous post on Debra Satz’s analysis of commercial surrogacy. In that post, I reviewed three classic objections to surrogacy and presente...

THE FILM & TV INDUSTRY DECLARES A STRIKE!

THE FILM & TV INDUSTRY DECLARES A STRIKE!

We were hoping to avoid this, and did our damdest for that, but unfortunately, in the face of demeaning obduracy, we f...