‘Galaxies aren’t totally mysterious’ and other insights from research being done in a village in the Northern Cape into collections of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems millions light years away from us
AuthorCapo Cassidy
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Unemployment could be halved if SA matched ‘self-employment’ rates of peer countries
A Gemini in the finance ministry
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We are not quite sure what to make of the comprehensive shifting of the deck chairs on the glacially-slow-moving Super-Tanker, The Ramaphosa. Reshuffle was definitely the
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Learning to live with the plague
As it becomes accepted that herd immunity is not going to happen, at least not in our lifetimes, the focus turns to learning to live with Covid-19
Swimming: the fountain of youth
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Reusing 10% ‘will halve plastic waste in ocean’
A new report from WEF shows how a tiny change in the re-use of plastics would create a massive shift in what seems like an impossibly huge global problem
Vaccines for the homeless!
While many of those who are entitled to the Covid-19 vaccination uhm and aah about whether they should take it or not, many thousands of people
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A financial plan is an anchor in stormy seas
Even more than usual, so many things happening in the world are out of our control – riots, Covid, lockdown, load-shedding, flooding and other extreme weather
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