South Africa in the news: In Chinatown, many are eager to get back to business in a neighborhood heavily reliant on tourism, but caution over crime and COVID lingers: Following a year where the pandemic reduced Chicago’s tourist-dependent Chinatown to a ghost town, there are signs that life is slowly beginning to return to normal. …
Tobacco-smoke residue that lingers in furniture, curtains and house dust can still be harmful: ESB Professional/Shutterstock Mice exposed to household fabrics contaminated with third-hand tobacco smoke showed changes in biological markers of health after only one month, a recent study found. After six months, the mice showed evidence of liver damage and insulin resistance, symptoms …
The perversion of paleontology by apartheid’s advocates still lingers: Children gather around a fossil skull at a South African museum. EPA/Jon Hrusa In 1925, Jan Smuts was both a prominent politician and an advocate for science. Just after the first of his two terms as prime minister of the Union of South Africa, Smuts served …