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SONA 2026: Ramaphosa doubles down on ending child stunting by 2030

Today at 15:02 PM, via Daily Maverick

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s commitment to ending stunting by 2030 in his State of the Nation Address for 2026 has been welcomed by stakeholders across the children’s sector. However, questions remain about the specific interventions the government will be pursuing to realise this ambitious goal.

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Norway’s Klaebo wins record ninth gold

Today at 14:42 PM, via BBC News

Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, Norway’s king of cross-country skiing, becomes the Winter Olympics’ outright most successful athlete with a record ninth gold medal.

Education

Shattered dreams: How the battle for Sunderland’s glass centre turned into a political flashpoint

Today at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Custodian University of Sunderland says renovation costs of £45m are too high and building must be pulled down. Not without a fight, say locals, who believe they’re being taken for fools

The “little pieces of Sunderland” produced by the city’s glassmaking factory for more than a century can be traced back to an even older story that began in the seventh century, when English glassmaking...

Entertainment

A glimpse into Toyota’s future: The bZ4X

Today at 14:30 PM, via The Citizen

It was no surprise to see Toyota’s first Battery-Electric Vehicle, the bZ4X, standing on the stage right next to the new RAV4 and Land Cruiser FJ.

Science/Tech

Crypto News Today: While Bitcoin (BTC) Drops, This New Crypto Attracts Whale Inflows

Today at 15:00 PM, via Tech Financials

Bitcoin (BTC) is under pressure again, and as market sentiment cools, attention is shifting to smaller projects that are still building and still in early-stage pricing. One of the names drawing headlines during the dip is Mutuum Finance (MUTM), after notable whale inflows hit its presale while the broader market stayed shaky. Bitcoin (BTC) Drop: […]

Science/Tech

Vim 9.2 Released

Today at 14:34 PM, via Slashdot

“More than two years after the last major 9.1 release, the Vim project has announced Vim 9.2,” reports the blog Linuxiac:A big part of this update focuses on improving Vim9 Script as Vim 9.2 adds support for enums, generic functions, and tuple types. On top of that, you can now use built-in functions as methods, and class handling includes features like protected constructors with _new(). The...

Science/Tech

Are we hard-wired for infidelity?

Today at 14:00 PM, via The Guardian

Monogamy may be held up as an ideal, but evolution has other ideas

Most of us know people in committed relationships, even lifelong marriages. And we also know stories about relationship transgressions, of partnerships tested or broken by infidelity.

As an evolutionary biologist who studies sex and relationships, I’m fascinated by these two truths. We humans make romantic commitments to each...