In today's Morning Brief, the suggested tip at cafes and restaurants on point-of-sale terminals is on the rise, creeping as high as 30 per cent. But critics say the higher tip amounts could backfire on restaurants and may not always go to the servers bringing your order.
Reflecting on how a pony named Little Catalina died after well-meaning people fed it too many apples, cultural historian Ainsley Hawthorn looks at times when people's good hearts nonetheless cause harm.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has given the abortion debate a new sense of urgency. But as cultural historian Ainsley Hawthorn writes, the history of abortion dates back thousands of years, belying the assumption that abortion is a fundamentally modern issue.
Even by the early 1800s, the concept of waves was seen in tracking the progress of disease. In her latest Apocalypse Then column, Ainsley Hawthorn notes that by the 20th century, waves had transitioned from a means of describing a pandemic's behaviour to a method for predicting it.