Leo Frobenius made African rock art famous, but is tainted by racism and a lack of understanding: An impressionistic pencil crayon copy of rock paintings produced by the Frobenius expedition to southern Africa. © Iziko Museums of South Africa Leo Frobenius was a largely self-taught German ethnologist (someone who studies societies and cultures) who undertook …
Women Talking – a radical film that reimagines how cinema can be made: Words matter. They give expression to our experiences, allow us to tell our stories and make sense of our place within the world. With language comes the ability to speak: to speak for, and to speak out. To name injustices and imagine …
Kubernetes migration made simple with Konveyor Move2Kube: Kubernetes migration made simple with Konveyor Move2Kube Mehant Kammakomati Wed, 02/08/2023 – 03:00 Konveyor Move2Kube assists developers in migrating projects from platforms such as Cloud Foundry and Docker swarm to Kubernetes and OpenShift. Move2Kube analyzes your application’s source code and generates Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) artifacts such as Kubernetes YAMLs, …
Inequality in access to basic services is a major problem in sub-Saharan Africa – but progress is being made: Where people live can determine their station in life. Wendy Stone/Corbis via Getty Images Economic activity and development are unevenly distributed across regions of the world and within any country. In other words, where someone lives …
The Badoo ritual gang created fear in Lagos: here’s what made victims vulnerable: The Head of a Celestial Church of Christ parish stands in front of the church where worshippers were killed and valuables stolen by the Badoo gang in 2017. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Violent cult gangs are well known in Nigeria. …
Neanderthals: the oldest art in the world wasn’t made by humans: Maltravieso Cave replica with Neanderthals four fingers hand-prints, Caceres, Spain WH_Pics/Shutterstock One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus has become that they did, sometimes. But, …
Jeff Beck: the unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist: The praise Jeff Beck, who has died aged 78, received from indebted musicians during his lifetime already read like unbridled eulogies. Eric Clapton had called him “the most unique guitarist”, Steve Lukather (Toto) “God’s guitarist”, and Joe Satriani “just a genius”. Jazz great …
How ‘clap for our carers’ made some informal caregivers feel undervalued and unseen: Almost three years into the pandemic, the UK’s 10.6 million informal carers face an uphill struggle. If the cost of living crisis is a concern for everyone, for those providing some level of primary care for a family member or friend it …
Arrakhis: the tiny satellite aiming to reveal what dark matter is made of: Milky Way over sand dunes in Cervantes, Australia. Nik Coli/Shutterstock The European Space Agency (Esa) recently announced a new mission of its science programme: a small telescope orbiting the Earth dubbed Arrakhis. But although its name is inspired by the sci-fi novel …
8 billion people: how evolution made it happen: One in 8 billion oneinchpunch/Shutterstock November 15 2022 marks a milestone for our species, as the global population hits 8 billion. Just 70 years ago, within a human lifetime, there were only 2.5 billion of us. In AD1, fewer than one-third of a billion. So how have …
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Brazil election: what I saw on the streets made me cautiously optimistic: I was in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, as the votes were being counted for the nation’s presidential election. The atmosphere was tense among supporters of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, after the first round …
The Lindisfarne Gospels: the story of how a medieval masterpiece was made: A detail of the _incipit_ page with the first words of the Gospel of John: _In principio erat Verbum_, "in the beginning was the Word". The British Library Sometime around the turn of the 8th century, on Lindisfarne, a windswept island off the …
How Queen Elizabeth II made the British monarchy into a global brand: Queen Elizabeth II was not just a monarch, she represented a global brand. And for the past seven decades, this brand has to some extent defined and promoted the British nation around the world. Brands are important corporate (or in this case national) …
Personalised medicine made in hospitals can revolutionise the way diseases are treated – the challenge now will be implementing it: Manufacturing a treatment this way would mean patients could get their treatment faster. Gorodenkoff/ Shutterstock Imagine a patient with a rare genetic disorder that makes their arms and legs have imprecise and slow movements. For …
Women have always trailed men in research output: how COVID made the situation worse: Women lack emotional support as working academics Getty Images The under-representation of women in research is well documented. Emerging evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this inequality and disrupted the research enterprise globally. But none of these studies, mainly …
Four ways Brexit and the loss of free movement have made life harder for mixed British-European families: Brexit is creating barriers within families. 1000 Words / Shutterstock Brexit and the end of free movement between the UK and the EU has had notable consequences for family life, particularly for mixed British-European families whether they are …
SAS accused of unlawful killings in Afghanistan, just a year after the British government made it harder to prosecute such crimes: Reuters/Alamy A BBC investigation has found evidence supporting very serious allegations against members of the SAS while they were operating in Afghanistan in 2010-11. This includes the allegation that one unit alone may have …