The front-page headlines generated this week by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s promise to link Australia’s major eastern cities by fast rail may be seen by many voters as yet another major infrastructure pledge made hurriedly in the run-up to a federal election that is likely to...

Ibuprofen, like many other medications, can be obtained easily from supermarkets without consulting a health-care professional. This may make ibuprofen seem benign, and for the most part it is. However, like all all pharmacologically active...

A particularly contemporary approach to art, fashion, and music is the mash-up. So easy is it to collage, stitch, and appropriate a variety of digital media, that it has given rise to a new aesthetic: what we call the tumblr look.

So, for example, tumblr fashion is a disparate melange; it could be panda bear shoes, baby doll dress, gothic vampire...