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DUAL ECONOMY: SA’s agriculture is growing, but is it working for everyone?

Today at 17:25 PM, via Daily Maverick

The South African agricultural sector is highly competitive and has doubled in size, yet it has failed to create jobs at the scale the country needs or include smallholder farmers in its orbit of opportunity. A new approach is needed to move beyond the current dual economy model and unlock a more inclusive growth path through strategic investment and empowerment.

Sport

Hearts & Celtic seal Champions League qualifier spots

Today at 16:19 PM, via BBC News

Hearts will play in the Champions League qualifiers next season for the first time in 20 years as Celtic’s win over Rangers guarantees a top-two Scottish Premiership finish.

Education

‘One of the greatest invisible tragedies’: is the loss of childhood imagination inevitable?

Today at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

We have created the most stifling and sanitised imaginative space conceivable for children, says teacher Brendan James Murray. Today true imagination has become a radical act

The six children sit together at the waterline in roaring wind. Seagulls dip and strain, beating their wings against the gusts as, far below, waves crest, thump, whisper. A girl, scarcely three years old, stands suddenly...

Education

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

Today at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in middle school, and very few have experienced a proper workshop, so at the start of every semester I offer these directions for writer and reader...

Education

How Students Interact With A.I. Is What Matters

Today at 15:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers discuss artificial intelligence and writing in the classroom. Also: President Trump’s latest assault on science; election workers.

Science/Tech

Rocket Lab Reports Growing Demand for Commercial Space Products. Stock Surges 34%

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

For just the first three months of 2026, Rocket Lab’s launch business reports $63.7 million in revenue, reports CNBC — plus another $136.7 million from its space systems business. Besides beating Wall Street’s expectations, Rocket Lab also announced that its backlog has more than doubled from a year ago to $2.2 billion, and that it’s buying space robotics company Motiv Space Systems. Friday...

Science/Tech

Pirouetting and gaping: mysterious whale behaviour documented as humpback migration begins

Today at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

With the help of citizen scientists, researchers studying rare humpback ‘jaw-gaping’ believe the move could be a social display

On the coast of Western Australia, a humpback whale is “pirouetting”, sweeping its pectoral fins through the water, its massive jaw hanging wide open. Surrounded by companions, the animal isn’t lunging for a meal: rather, it is putting on a mysterious behavioural...

Science/Tech

Unemployed Ticked Up in America’s IT Sector

Today at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

IT sector unemployment “increased to 3.8% in April from 3.6% in March,” reports the Wall Street Journal. But they add that the increase reflects “an ongoing uncertainty in tech as AI continues to play havoc with hiring. That’s according to analysis from consulting firm Janco Associates, which bases its findings on data from the U.S. Labor Department.”On Friday, the department said the economy...