Rassie Erasmus How Rassie boosted Bok depth: Part 1sarugbymag.co.za - Jon Cardinelli JON CARDINELLI looks at the backline players used by the Springboks since 2018 and why Rassie Erasmus faces a healthy selection headache ahead of the …
Energy Why climate change is so hard to tackle: The global problemAxios - Amy Harder Democratic presidential hopefuls are calling for aggressive action to reduce heat-trapping emissions, while nations are facing pressure to ramp up …
Wealth Is The Gap Between The Rich And The Poor The Real Problem?Forbes - Rainer ZitelmannThe psychology of success and wealth and the power of capitalism. Socialist candidates like Bernie Sanders are fixated on wealth inequality. One of the pet topics of anti-capitalists like Bernie Sanders
Sport (South Africa) Springbok loose forward Marcell Coetzee ruled out of Rugby World Cup | IOLiol.co.za - Ashfak Mohamed He missed out on selection four years ago, and now Marcell Coetzee has to endure more Rugby World Cup heartbreak. The Ulster loose forward was ruled …
Meat Alt-Meat Trounces Animal Meat's Massive InefficienciesWIRED - Condé Nast In the meat industry, the carcass balancing problem describes how animal bodies are not proportioned to the ratios of products that humans actually …
Cyril Ramaphosa ALLAN GREENBLO: Government has to confront our economic problems head-on, or the IMF willbusinesslive.co.za - Allan Greenblo When a country borrows from the IMF, its government agrees to adjust its economic policies to overcome the problems that led it to seek financial …
Cake Cake and politics: On rugby quotas and the World Cupmg.co.za - Derek Catsam Derek Catsam is Professor of History and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas-Permian Basin Read more from …
Planetary Habitability There Could Be Up to 10 Billion Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy AloneScienceAlert - MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN Our galaxy could be littered with warm, watery planets like Earth. That's the conclusion of researchers at Penn State University, who used data from …
Sport (South Africa) | Pretoria Test: Have these five Boks blown it?sport24.co.za Five Springboks who started at Loftus on Saturday seem at especially high risk now of missing the cut for the World Cup squad, writes Rob Houwing.
Capitalism The end of capitalism has begunThe Guardian - Paul MasonWithout us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long
North Sea Where did all the cod go? Fishing crisis in the North SeaThe Guardian - Harriet SherwoodBy 7.30am all the cod at Peterhead fish market had been sold, snapped up by competing buyers wearing thick fleeces, woolly hats and rubber boots against the chill of the vast indoor warehouse. A gaggle
Ernest Hemingway A Writer's BeefSaveur If my ideal hamburger were a novel, its author would be Ernest Hemingway: I prefer my burgers powerful and spare, brutal yet refined. But when I …
Prague What’s it like to live in an over-touristed city?BBC Travel - By Lindsey GallowayLocals explain how the influx of travellers has affected them, how authorities are responding and how visitors can remain respectful of people who live there year-round. Global travel and tourism continues
World News Overtourism in the NetherlandsThe Atlantic - Rene ChunOutnumbered by drunk and disorderly visitors, the Netherlands fights back. The Dutch have suffered some brutal occupations, from the Roman empire and Viking raids to Spanish and Nazi rule. But now they
Currie Cup Currie Cup going down to the wire … againsport24.co.za Cape Town - The Currie Cup Premier Division is going down to the wire yet again and with only one round of the league phase left before the playoffs, …
South African Rugby Three key points from past weekendsarugbymag.co.za - Craig Lewis CRAIG LEWIS identifies some of the good, the bad and the ugly to take away from the Boks’ ‘farewell’ Test before heading to the World Cup. THE GOOD If …
UK News Lime and soda? No thanks, say non-drinkersbbc.co.uk - Jill Treanor The days of lime and soda are over. "Sugary, carbonated or fruit-based juice drinks just won't do" for those seeking a booze-free alternative.
Opinion (UK) Facial recognition is now rampant. The implications for our freedom are chillingThe Guardian - Stephanie HareLast week, all of us who live in the UK, and all who visit us, discovered that our faces were being scanned secretly by private companies and have been for some time. We don’t know what these companies
Eskom is getting killed – expertmybroadband.co.za - Staff Writer High electricity prices are dampening economic growth and reward incompetence and irrationality at Eskom, energy adviser Mike Rossouw warned. In an …
Renewable Energy Wind power prices now lower than the cost of natural gasArs Technica - John Timmer In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels. This week, the US Department of Energy released a report that looks …
Recession How the Recession of 2020 Could HappenThe New York TimesA welder at a factory in Nantong in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. China’s industrial output has been slowing. A steel plant in Salzgitter, Germany. Europe has faced slow growth for years but so far
Recycling 'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?The Guardian - Oliver Franklin-WallisWestminster council sent 82% of all household waste – including that put in recycling bins – for incineration in 2017/18 One of the UK’s largest waste companies, attempted to ship used nappies abroad consignments
Saudi Arabia Oil built Saudi Arabia – will a lack of water destroy it? | Cities | The GuardianThe Guardian - Ruth MichaelsonOil built Saudi Arabia – will a lack of water destroy it? As Riyadh continues to build skyscrapers at a dizzying rate, an invisible emergency threatens the desert kingdom’s existence Bottles of water on
BMW The 8 Best Touring Motorcycleshiconsumption.com Motorcyclists are an interesting breed; they live for the weekend journey, yearn for the open road, and spend their lives atop powerful, two-wheeled …
South African Rugby RWC squad: Will Rassie balance the scales?sarugbymag.co.za - Jon Cardinelli JON CARDINELLI identifies the frontrunners for World Cup selection as well as the factors that could influence Rassie Erasmus’ thinking. We know that …
Nature Photography 12 Stunning Pictures, Winners Of Bird Photographer of the Year 2019Forbes - Cecilia RodriguezWhen Carol Steele, winner of Bird Photographer Of The Year 2019, arrived in Greece to take pictures of Dalmatian Pelicans in their breeding plumage, she discovered that Lake Kerkini, their favored haunt,
Play button How Fanta Was Created for Nazi GermanyAtlas Obscura - Matthew Blitz It’s February 1944, and Berlin is attempting to recover from American aerial bombing. But life and industry continues on the city’s outskirts. In …
Rassie Erasmus | 37 Boks leaving for Bloem camp, where 6 will be cutsport24.co.za Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus said he would take a group of 37 players to Bloemfontein on Sunday before finalising his World Cup squad.
Sport (South Africa) Bok ratings: Big ‘thank you’ to Nkosi!sport24.co.za - Rob Houwing - Sport24 chief writer Cape Town – A sloppy, disjointed Test match at Loftus perhaps needed an individual spark to crucially influence the outcome … and it came through a …
Collage French Artist Emir Shiro Talks About His Digital Erotic CollagesForbes - Felicity CarterHis artistic name is Emir Shiro, and that's how many will know his digital self, but in fact, his real name is Rémi Pisicchio. Based in Grenoble (between Lyon and Nice) in France is where Shiro can be
