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Zoom meetings help marginalised staff feel included – we should keep having them even after offices reopen

Before the lockdown, people who voluntarily worked remotely were often marginalised compared with their colleagues working in the office. Studies show that remote workers could often feel professionally and socially isolated. The physical distance between…

Exclusive: China ramps up U.S. oil purchases ahead of trade deal review

Are there ‘male’ and ‘female’ brains? Computers can see a distinction, but they rely strongly on differences in head size

How useful are the well-known and hotly contested categories of “male brain” and “female brain”? Among experts, nobody really questions that anatomical sex differences in the brain exist. But since the advent of brain science,…

Global business travel will not be killed off by coronavirus – new research

Global business travel has largely ground to a halt during the pandemic. Experts have been raising the alarm that this is the death of business travel as we know it, arguing that it will be…

Oil Ekes Out 2nd Week of Gains Amid Mixed Data, Demand By Investing.com

© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Oil prices eked out a second week of gains thanks to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s estimates of unexpectedly strong crude draws at home despite the International Energy…

Early and mid-career scientists face a bleak future in the wake of the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on research in Australia. We surveyed 333 early and mid-career researchers in science, technical, engineering and medical (STEM) fields and found the impact on their productivity and…

China-US relations are at rock bottom, but new trade talks will happen eventually

Senior trade negotiators from the US and China are due to have a virtual call to check the progress of the “phase one” deal reached by the two nations in January, aimed at overcoming the…

U.S. says it seized four Iranian fuel shipments en route to Venezuela By Reuters

By Humeyra Pamuk and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Friday it had confiscated four Iranian fuel shipments that had been bound for Venezuela, disrupting a key supply line for both…

how a hashtag reveals Australia’s ‘information disorder’ problem

At midday on August 12 2020, the hashtag #DanLiedPeopleDied started trending on Twitter. By evening it had attracted over 10,000 tweets. The hashtag appeared to reflect widespread public distrust in Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ handling…

Diversity pledges alone won’t change corporate workplaces – here’s what will

Dozen of companies, from Apple to Zappos, have reacted to George Floyd’s killing and the protests that followed by pledging to make their workforces more diverse. While commendable, to me it feels a bit like…

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Zoom meetings help marginalised staff feel included – we should keep having them even after offices reopen

Exclusive: China ramps up U.S. oil purchases ahead of trade deal review

Are there ‘male’ and ‘female’ brains? Computers can see a distinction, but they rely strongly on differences in head size

Global business travel will not be killed off by coronavirus – new research

Oil Ekes Out 2nd Week of Gains Amid Mixed Data, Demand By Investing.com

Early and mid-career scientists face a bleak future in the wake of the pandemic

China-US relations are at rock bottom, but new trade talks will happen eventually

U.S. says it seized four Iranian fuel shipments en route to Venezuela By Reuters

how a hashtag reveals Australia’s ‘information disorder’ problem

Diversity pledges alone won’t change corporate workplaces – here’s what will

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