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DStv has a secret weapon

16 December at 09:00 AM, via MyBroadband

SuperSport is a global leader in sports broadcasting and remains MultiChoice’s most valuable asset in ensuring its DStv subscribers do not cut the cord.

Starwatch: Ursids meteor shower to appear in largely dark sky

16 December at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Peak of activity will be on 22 December and early risers should definitely look up

Another week, another meteor shower. Last week it was the highly reliable Geminids meteor shower, this week it is the lesser shower known as the Ursids. Whereas the Geminids were disrupted by the presence of a full moon, the Ursids will appear in a largely dark sky. Only after midnight will the moon, now...

Bitcoin price hits new record

16 December at 07:11 AM, via MyBroadband

The largest crypto token rose more than 3% at one point on Monday in Asia to an unprecedented $106,493 (R1.9 million), exceeding its previous peak from 5 December.

‘Something horrible’: Somerset pit reveals bronze age cannibalism

16 December at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Oxford analysis shows evidence of bloody massacre, with hand and feet bones chewed by human molars

A collection of human bones discovered 50 years ago in a Somerset pit are evidence of the bloodiest known massacre in British prehistory – and of bronze age cannibalism, archaeologists say.

At least 37 men, women and children were killed at some point between 2200BC and 2000BC, with their bodies...

Anxious scientists brace for Trump’s climate denialism: ‘We have a target on our backs’

15 December at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Experts express fear – and resilience – as they prepare for president-elect’s potential attacks on climate research

As the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists swarmed a Washington venue last week, the packed halls have been permeated by an air of anxiety and even dread over a new Donald Trump presidency that might worsen what has been a bruising few years for science.

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Bad news for Gauteng criminals

15 December at 15:00 PM, via MyBroadband

What is effectively a very powerful flying CCTV camera is monitoring criminal activity in Gauteng this festive season.

Uncertainty is part of being human, so how can we learn to live with it?

15 December at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

A professor of statistics explains that living is about taking risks and not knowing the outcome, and why it’s important to accept and embrace that

My father was an enthusiastic traveller, but as he got older he increasingly suffered from what he called “travel fever”, a vivid term for the acute anxiety felt before a journey, essentially due to uncertainty about all the things that could...

I waited 45 minutes to buy a single croissant in Fitzroy. Why do humans queue?

15 December at 01:00 AM, via The Guardian

Lines for pastries, phones, even paying respects have become famous. What is it that draws people to spend their scarce, precious time in queues?

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I have waited in line for a Lune croissant. At the worst possible time, too – mid-morning on a Sunday, the queue stretching out the door of the vaunted bakery’s Fitzroy warehouse and curling around the...

How seeing his own brain inspired doctor to find a method to rapidly detect delirium

14 December at 19:30 PM, via The Guardian

Life-saving surgery in Greg Scott’s youth instilled determination to find more effective EEG diagnosis

As a student, the neurologist Greg Scott had very little interest in following a career in medicine. Computing was the focus of his studies.

Then one day he suffered a grand mal seizure. Also called a tonic-clonic seizure, it causes a loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions.

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