Pandemic parliaments: lessons learned from two years trying to run democracies living under COVID-19: Social distancing left Westminster's House of Commons virtually empty at times. UK Parliament/Flickr, CC BY-NC Parliaments matter more than ever in times of crisis. They oversee emergency responses, evaluate and pass legislation, and approve funds to meet urgent public needs. They …
How trying to copy a COVID vaccine changes the outlook for African countries: Afrigen, a biotechnology company based in Cape Town, South Africa, is developing Africa's first proprietary COVID-19 vaccine. Kristin Palitza/picture alliance via Getty Images The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced the first six African countries that will receive technology to produce messenger …
Trying to cool the Earth by dimming sunlight could be worse than global warming: Geoengineering aims to intervene in Earth's climate to fight global warming. NASAJohnson/Flickr, CC BY-NC A group of 60 scientists called for a moratorium on solar geoengineering last month, including technologies such as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI). This involves a fleet of …
Inflation will probably melt away in 2022 – central banks will do far more harm trying to tackle it: It remains to be seen whether the omicron variant will shift Sars-CoV-2 towards becoming manageably endemic. But as and when this happens, there will still be “long COVID” to contend with. The latest headlines about inflation – …
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Afghanistan whistleblower’s account of evacuation was right – trying to get my colleagues out was chaos: Evacuees from Kabul on their way to Poland via Uzbekistan. Marcin Obara / EPA-EFE The testimony of a whistleblower about the UK’s withdrawal from Afghanistan describes an ill-equipped, chaotic evacuation. Raphael Marshall, a former Foreign Office diplomat, suggested that …
Congo Basin’s vital clues to HIV’s behaviour: how we’re trying to crack its complex code: HIV prevalence in the Congo Basin is relatively low. Yannick Tylle/ GettyImages There have been tremendous gains towards reaching the United Nations 90-90-90 targets to end HIV as a public health threat. The aim was that, by 2020, 90% of …
5 markdown editors I recommend trying: You can use markdown for anything—formatting websites, authoring books, and writing technical documentation are just some of its uses. I love how easy it is to create rich documents. Everyone has their favorite markdown editor. I have used several on my markdown journey. Here are five markdown editors I …
South Africa in the news: Vodacom and MTN trying to exploit Covid–19 disaster — Rain CEO: Rain is in favour of Icasa taking back the network capacity it temporarily assigned to South African mobile network operators for use during the national state of disaster.: “South Africa” – BingNews Why the chip in your smartphone matters: …
South Africa in the news: Trying to reschedule England series after T20 World Cup, says BCB chief executive: The England white-ball tour of Bangladesh has been postponed, but not cancelled altogether, the BCB has said, adding that talks were on to slot it after the T20 World Cup, which ends on November 14.: “South Africa” …
Children start trying to make us laugh from a surprisingly young age: wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock “What did the face mask say to the mouth?” “Let me cover for you!” This timely joke was made not by a professional comedian but by a group of primary school students, who have won the 2021 title of “Britain’s Funniest Class”. …
Big bang: how we are trying to ‘listen’ to it – and the new physics it could unveil: What happened during the Big Bang? FlashMovie/Shutterstock Exactly what happened at the beginning of the universe, 14 billion years ago, is one of the greatest mysteries in physics – there’s no simple way to probe it. That’s …
5 Rust tools worth trying on the Linux command line: Linux inherited a lot from Unix, which has been around for a half-century. This means most of the tools you use in your Linux terminal probably either have a very long history or were written to emulate those historical commands. It’s a point of pride …
Jacob Zuma isn’t a man with a cause. Just a wily politician trying to evade the law: Jacob Zuma in 2015 when he was South African president and president of the ruling African National Congress. South Africa’s Constitutional Court ruling to imprison the country’s former president, Jacob Zuma, was unprecedented. But it wasn’t unexpected. The …
Cruella: why Disney and other studios are trying to create sympathy for the devil: Disney/YouTube This article contains spoilers for the film Cruella. Cruella, Disney’s live-action movie about the early years of fictional Dalmatian hater Cruella de Vil, has joined a trend of films that seek to invite sympathy for the devil, specifically the cartoon …
Short-sightedness is increasing in children – and researchers are still trying to understand why: Myopia is usually a lifelong condition. kornnphoto/ Shutterstock Myopia is on the rise. In the UK, the number of children with myopia has doubled in the last 50 years. Globally, it’s projected that by 2050 half of the world’s population will …
South Africa in the news: Mother who claimed to give birth to ten babies accuses the father of trying to become ‘millionaire’: Gosiame Sithole claimed her boyfriend Tebego Tsotetsi was ‘expecting to be rich’ from the alleged record births and was only concerned about the donations coming from people across the world.: “South Africa” – …
Is there a happiness equation? Here’s how we’re trying to find out: What if your happy is different from my happy? Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock Most people would like to be happier. But it isn’t always easy to know how to achieve that goal. Is there an equation for happiness? Many formulas have been suggested. Get …