Local students to showcase their skills on a global platform: Samsung South Africa gives The IIE’s Vega students the opportunity to showcase their talent. Samsung collaborated with award-winning tertiary brand, Vega School on a Design Jam, which aims to give young South African designers the opportunity to showcase their design skills on a global stage. …
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn’s final election debate: academic experts on their claims: Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, and Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, have gone head-to-head in the final live television debate before the UK votes on December 12. They were set a series of tricky questions by a live studio …
The city of Akure is developing fast. But citizens aren’t having their say: Akure's infrastructure development projects have yet to create space for community participation Shutterstock Akure, the medium-sized capital of Ondo State in Southwest Nigeria, has seen its population increase by more than 54% in 13 years. Akure’s population growth is explained by two …
A cool Kings Beach image: Queenstown, where soldiers found a home, and sailors their rest Image by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Lovely view of Queenstown (now Cobh), and more evidence of harbour-side urinals, though perhaps not as fancy as the ones we saw at City Quay, Dublin. Date: 1890s? (between 1893 and …
South Africa’s liberals are failing to wrap their heads around race: Shutterstock South Africa’s official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), is reeling from self-inflicted political damage. Its newly elected parliamentary leader John Steenhuisen recently appealed to his colleagues to “stop the political hara-kiri that’s going on in the DA – pulling out entrails to …
Bilingualism and dementia: how some patients lose their second language and rediscover their first: Being bilingual can delay onset of dementia, but sometimes patients revert to their mother tongue, leaving them isolated. Shutterstock For many people with dementia, memories of early childhood appear more vivid than their fragile sense of the present. But what happens …
How Antarctic krill fertilise the oceans and even store carbon – all with their poo: I. Noyan Yilmaz / shutterstock Krill are best known as whale food. But few people realise that these small, shrimp-like creatures are also important to the health of the ocean and the atmosphere. In fact, Antarctic krill can fertilise the …
Nuclear powers once shared their technology openly – how Iran’s programme fell on the wrong side of history: Iran's nuclear deal is hanging in the balance. By Stuart Miles/Shutterstock As tensions remain at fever pitch between Tehran and Washington, Iran continues to breach limits agreed in the 2015 Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive …
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Universities must teach their budding scientists entrepreneurship: Young scientists should be taught how to turn scientific innovations into business opportunities FrameStockFootages/Shutterstock A strong background in science and technology is crucial for students who want to become academic research scientists. But there are many other jobs for budding scientists that also need extra business-oriented skills. For …
A cool Kings Beach image: “I will fill their treasuries!” Proverbs 8:21 Image by Redeemed By His (Christ) Grace "I will fill their treasuries!" Proverbs 8:21 That is, "I will fill the places where their treasures are kept — their treasuries." Our God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or …
CCTP: Military Culture & The Wounds of War/Pastoral Care for Vets & Their Families – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-09-19 08:30:00 in United States This free interactive training is co-sponsored by the National VA Chaplain Center and The American Legion Post 7. Seats for this training are LIMITED, so please REGISTER to RESERVE your seat now. The classroom …
Turtle embryos can choose their own sex, shows new research – but why?: Cell Press © Du et al The animal world has many weird and wonderful ways of having sex. Some animals, such as snails, are hermaphrodites – able to make both eggs and sperm simultaneously. Some, such as wrasses and parrot-fish, initially hatch …
Kenya’s terror survivors, and their families, need more trauma support: Civilians run for safety as police provide cover during the suicide bombing and mass shooting attack on the 14 Riverside complex Wikimedia The Dusit hotel, which was part of the complex attacked by terrorists in Nairobi in January 2019, has reopened. 21 people died in …
A Guided Tour by Artists in their Absence – a Africa interest event taking place on 2019-07-11 18:30:00 in United States Occupational Hazards is an exhibition dedicated to artworks that have been lost, damaged or destroyed when shipped throughout the Middle East. For this public event, Occupational Hazards artists have added their voices to the gallery space. While …
Dogs may reflect their owners’ stress levels, finds research: Soloviova Liudmyla / shutterstock Stress is an unavoidable component of modern life. Many people worry about the effect of a stressful lifestyle on their long-term health, but how many of us think about how our lifestyle, and our own stress levels, affect the health of our …
South Africans don’t trust companies to protect their data privacy: Companies aren't living up to their privacy policies' promises. mindscanner/Shutterstock Consumers expect that organisations will respect their privacy. For instance, when you buy something online, you take it for granted that your bank details will be kept secure. Or if you provide your identity number …
Sudan: the symbolic significance of the space protesters made their own: Meals are prepared for protesters at Khartoum's military headquarters. EPA-EFE/STRINGER Where there is revolution, there’s a central gathering point – just think of Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Taksim Square in Istanbul and Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunisia. They all captured the world’s imagination as places …