Pan-African integration has made progress but needs a change of mindset: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses an African Union summit in Addis Ababa via video in February 2022. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images This year’s celebration of Africa Day provides another opportunity to assess how far continental integration has progressed. Integration would mean a …
Pink pigeons in Mauritius made a remarkable comeback from near-extinction – but are still losing genetic diversity: Daniel Danckwerts / shutterstock Back in the 1980s there were just ten or so pink pigeons left in the wild. Known to scientists as Nesoenas mayeri, the species is found only on Mauritius, the Indian Ocean island that …
Rihanna and radical pregnancy fashion – how the Victorians made maternity wear boring: No baggy shirts and trousers with expanding waistbands, singer Rihanna has chosen form fitting clothing that exposes rather than hides her pregnancy. Abaca Press/Alamy There is a stage in pregnancy where many women have to start thinking about switching out their clothes …
5 agile mistakes I’ve made and how to solve them: 5 agile mistakes I’ve made and how to solve them Kelsea Zhang Tue, 04/26/2022 – 03:00 Up Register or Login to like. Agile used to have a stigma as being “only suitable for small teams and small project management.” It is now a famous discipline …
From ‘biologically dead’ to chart-toppingly clean: how the Thames made an extraordinary recovery over 60 years: The Thames is one of the world's cleanest city rivers. JPLenio/Pixabay It might surprise you to know that the River Thames is considered one of the world’s cleanest rivers running through a city. What’s even more surprising is that …
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Elon Musk just made Twitter a much more interesting company – here’s why: The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is now Twitter’s largest shareholder after acquiring a 9.2% stake in the social media platform for just under US$ 3 billion (£2.3 billion). The announcement drove Twitter’s share price up 27%, and it continued to grow …
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Bridgerton – how period dramas made audiences hate the corset: Liam Daniel/Netflix When you think of a corset, you might imagine period drama dames sucking in as they cling onto a bedpost as a feisty lady’s maid aggressively laces them in. Nextflix’s hot Regency inspired drama Bridgerton features similar such tortuous scenes. In the run …
Tiny tracks tell of ancient paths made by gerbils and spiders on South Africa’s south coast: Branching gerbil burrows leading to a debris mound preserved on an ancient dune surface. Charles Helm When large animals like elephants, giraffes and crocodiles roamed what is today South Africa’s Cape south coast hundreds of thousands of years ago, …
Ukraine has made a major move towards EU integration – by plugging into Europe’s electricity grid: Ukraine and neighbouring Moldova have synchronised their power grids with continental Europe, meaning electricity could now in theory flow back and forth between the two countries and across a grid that stretches through the EU to the UK and …
War in Ethiopia: addressing mental health needs to be made a priority: Ethiopian refugees fleeing the Tigray region. Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images The effects of war on the mental wellbeing of people is given much less attention than the physical harms of conflict. We have been researching and working on the mental …
Tanzania’s Hassan has made changes: but the ruling party retains a tight grip: Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan. Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images She may have been Tanzania’s ‘accidental president’, but Samia Suluhu Hassan has used her first year in office to cement her power. The way in which she took over the position put …
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Future cities could be 3D printed – using concrete made with recycled glass: Matjazz/Shutterstock 3D printed concrete may lead to a shift in architecture and construction. Because it can be used to produce new shapes and forms that current technologies struggle with, it may change the centuries-old processes and procedures that are still used to …