Bad gift ideas: ferrets and other exotic wild mammals as pets: As the festive season approaches, the demand for pets as holiday gifts tends to spike. People can be drawn to exotic or unique animals, hoping to surprise their loved ones with something special. Recently, ferrets have become increasingly popular in South Africa, especially in …
Eugen Sandow was the posterboy of physical culture: his 1904 visit to South Africa reinforced racist ideas: Eugen Sandow stopped in South Africa on a world tour. Wellcome Collection/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Eugen Sandow was an internationally famous strongman. The German-born British showman (1867-1925) toured the world challenging other strongmen and staging displays of strength. …
How 2-Tone brought new ideas about race and culture to young people beyond the inner cities: This Town, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s latest drama for the BBC, brings to life a defining – if short-lived – era in the history of British youth culture and popular music. Set in the West Midlands against the …
Encyclopedia Britannica once published a catalogue of humanity’s ‘102 Great Ideas’ – and it created more questions than answers: Shutterstock In its January 26 1948 issue, Life magazine published a feature showcasing the “102 Great Ideas” of western civilisation. The project was the brainchild of Mortimer Adler, a professor of philosophy and law at the …
How to pitch story ideas to The Conversation: Let's be clear: what do you want to say? Why should I want to hear it? Pixelbliss/Shutterstock While much of The Conversation’s content comes from editors identifying stories to cover and finding relevant experts to write them, we also welcome pitches – ideas for stories as yet …
Leadership in a crisis: how President Ramaphosa’s COVID speeches drew on Mandela’s ideas of South African unity: In times of crisis, leaders wield more than just political power. They harness the art of rhetoric in a bid to unite their nations towards a common goal. South Africa, with a tumultuous history marked by apartheid, has …
University Drop-Out’s Big Ideas Make Waves In Tech Industry: Born and raised in Thembisa, Johannesburg, young Mongezi Masombuka (30) is the founder and Managing Director of a successful IT and business solutions company and is steadily making waves in the tech industry. Having only recently celebrated his 30th birthday, Masombuka has already conquered a myriad …
The burials that could challenge historians’ ideas about Anglo-Saxon gender: Saxon burial mound in Taplow, England. mbarredo/Shutterstock There are a significant number of Anglo-Saxon burials where the estimated anatomical sex of the skeleton does not align with the gender implied by the items they were buried with. Some bodies identified as male have been buried …
Slavery stole Africans’ ideas as well as their bodies: reparations should reflect this: Jamaican hero: a statue to Sam Sharpe, who led the Baptist War slave rebellion in 1831. Debbie Ann Powell/Shutterstock In a speech to mark Unesco’s campaign for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, UN secretary-general António Guterres told the …
Time Shelter: International Booker’s first Bulgarian winner is a rich experiment in style, structure and ideas: A philosophical exploration of memory and nostalgia, about forgetting and trying to hold on to our past and make sense of our present and future, Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter is a worthy winner of this year’s International Booker prize. …
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5 open source ideas for being more inclusive through accessibility: 5 open source ideas for being more inclusive through accessibility AmyJune Wed, 12/28/2022 – 03:00 As the internet opens the planet into a world stage, inclusion should be at the forefront of how we design, build, and implement our ideas. With 15% of people self-identifying …
His Dark Materials: how the small-screen adaptation deals with the novel’s big ideas: In its concluding season, the BBC adaptation of His Dark Materials approaches a moment of danger. A story that began with the intimate world building of parallel Oxfords must now take on the fate of the entire multiverse. Season three begins with …
8 ideas for measuring your open source software usage: 8 ideas for measuring your open source software usage Georg Link Fri, 12/02/2022 – 03:00 Those of us who support open source project communities are often asked about usage metrics — a lot. The goal of these metrics is usually to demonstrate the software’s importance as …
Intangible gift ideas with open source in mind: Intangible gift ideas with open source in mind Phil Shapiro Thu, 12/01/2022 – 03:00 When the holidays roll around each year, you’ll encounter some wonderful gift-giving guides for physical gifts. But how about intangible gifts? Some of the most meaningful gifts are intangible ones. Let me plant …
9 holiday gift ideas for open source enthusiasts in 2022: 9 holiday gift ideas for open source enthusiasts in 2022 Opensource.com Fri, 11/25/2022 – 03:00 What do you get the open source enthusiast that has everything? More open source, of course! We asked our community of contributors to share their favorite gift ideas. The end …
Liz Truss: a brief guide to her economic ideas and what the evidence says about them: For some, Liz Truss’s headline policies since she became the UK’s prime minister have been shocking. Markets have been shocked, voters have been shocked, and many of her own colleagues in the Conservative party seem a little uncomfortable. So …
Tips on how to help innovative ideas get wings — from universities to businesses: Shutterstock Slowed economic growth and high unemployment almost seem the norm across Sub-Saharan Africa. There are many factors that has caused this including varying skills levels, low levels of digital literacy and ageing infrastructure. Not to mention the constantly changing technologies …