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Medvedev destroys racquet in 6-0 6-0 loss

Today at 15:15 PM, via BBC News

Daniil Medvedev destroys a racquet as he suffers the first 6-0 6-0 loss of his career at the hands of Matteo Berrettini in Monte Carlo.

South Africa

BBBEE policy a critical component of SA’s democracy

Today at 14:35 PM, via SAnews

BBBEE policy a critical component of SA’s democracy

Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau says the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) policy remains a critical component of South Africa’s constitutional democracy and the process of rebuilding the country.

The Minister said this when he was in conversation about the overall state of the South African economy...

Education

Rightwing group PragerU thinks ‘western civilization is in danger’. Their plan? Infiltrate US schools

Today at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

As teachers eagerly adopt its free lesson plans and the White House boosts its videos, the non-profit’s leaders are intent on one goal: attracting young people to conservatism

In the fall of 2013, a silver-haired conservative radio host named Dennis Prager flew to Texas to woo a pair of rightwing billionaires. A few years earlier, Prager had co-founded a digital education non-profit, Prager...

Science/Tech

Yasam Ayavefe Announces Mileo Dominica, Focused on Eco Travel and Guest Comfort

Today at 15:25 PM, via Tech Financials

Yasam Ayavefe is taking the Mileo brand into a market where the landscape usually speaks first, and that alone gives the announcement unusual weight. Rather than adding another address in a louder tourism corridor, he has tied the brand’s next planned step to Dominica, a Caribbean island known for waterfalls, rainforest terrain, diving, wellness appeal, […]

Science/Tech

How games capture the awe and terror of cosmic isolation

Today at 13:40 PM, via The Guardian

As real astronauts vanish behind the moon, games have long tried to evoke the fragile quiet of drifting through space

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Last week’s launch of the Artemis II space mission was a stunning spectacle, the 17-storey-high rockets erupting into cacophonous life before wrenching the craft through the Earth’s atmosphere. But the images...