Relationship science: No set of traits guarantees romantic happiness or preclude romantic happiness
The fascinating, if sometimes disturbing, data from online dating sites tells us that single people predictably are drawn to certain qualities. But should they be drawn to these qualities? If you are like the average single dater – predictably clicking on people with the traits the scientists found are most...
Worry not, there’s a remedy to menopausal symptoms: hormone replacement is effective for women – experts
What can academic and private-sector scientific workplaces do to help staff navigate the psycholotical and physical changes brought about by the onset of menopause? Jo Brewis, a management- and organisation-studies researcher at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, and an expert on menopause and the workplace, says the most...
Wrong dating: Computers’ ability to predict romantic success is worse than we might have guessed
People rarely turn to science for help with this all-important decision on relationships. Truth be told, science has had little help to offer. Scholars of relationship science have been trying to find answers, but it has proven difficult and expensive to recruit large samples of couples. The studies in this...
When menopause strikes, workplace support is key to continued productivity, overcome brain fog and crankiness
“No one ever talks to you about menopause,” says Carlotta Berry, an electrical and computer engineer at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. But a few years ago, it hit Berry “like a steam truck”. She got brain fog, she grew irritable and cranky, and her hair fell...
Report calls for new diagnosis of Africa’s instability that’s not shaped by specific interests or ideology
Africa faces widespread instability. In the past year, there have been coups in Mali, Chad, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Guinea, and attempts to overthrow governments in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia and Guinea-Bissau. Violent extremism has also spread due to the political and economic marginalisation of some communities, the...
Ties that bind us: After Russia attacked Ukraine, weak links in finance and supply chains were easily weaponised
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, nobody expected that the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada and other nations would isolate Russia from the global economy in retaliation. Instead of limited and largely symbolic sanctions, which were all Russia faced when it annexed Crimea and...
Burkina Faso putschists come under stinging criticism for failing to reverse insecurity and violent extremism
Three months after the putsch in Burkina Faso, the junta that pushed President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré out of power is coming under searing criticism for failing to reverse growing insecurity and incidents of violence that have become a daily occurrence. Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) figures...
UN experts worry South Sudan is on brink of civil war after peace accord became ‘lucrative venue for elite power politics’
Many political leaders and civilians in South Sudan are “deeply sceptical” a 2018 peace agreement can deliver stability to the world’s newest nation and worry it may be heading back into conflict, UN experts said in a report circulated Monday. The experts pointed to political disputes between former rivals now...
Rebuttal: Forget the mantra that you ‘eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper’
Breakfast earned its title as the most important meal of the day back in the 1960s after American nutritionist Adelle Davis suggested that to keep fit and avoid obesity, one should “eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” Breakfast literally means “to break...
Military budgets shoot up as Kenya, Uganda and Angola top Africa against backdrop of terrorism, extremism
Total world military expenditure increased fractionally in 2021 to reach $2,113 billion, surpassing the $2 trillion mark for the first time, new research by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has revealed. Military spending also increased in Africa. SIPRI on April 25 said 2021 saw the seventh consecutive year...
