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World

What to know about the Nobel Peace Prize

Today at 18:17 PM, via NPR

Anticipation is growing and bookies around the world are taking bets on who’ll be awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Here is what to know ahead of the award announcement this week.

Sport

Phillips emerges as Everton target – Friday’s gossip

Today at 21:15 PM, via BBC News

Everton eye Kalvin Phillips from Manchester City, Liverpool interest in Adam Wharton, Crystal Palace preparing for Marc Guehi exit and Manchester United ready to spend big for Kenan Yildiz.

Education

Liberia: Alumni Group Turns U.S.$12k Refurbished Classroom to UL Law School

Today at 19:37 PM, via AllAfrica

[Liberian Observer] In a major show of alumni-driven support for legal education, Noble Second Floor, a dynamic network of law students, lawyers, and judges, has refurbished and turned over a US$12,000 classroom module to the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia (UL).

Education

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Today at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education

Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors.

The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in...

Lifestyle

MaMkhize’s Lambo, designer bags set for auction

Today at 20:06 PM, via The South African

Businesswoman and soccer boss MaMkhize – real name Shauwn Mkhize – will see many of her beloved designer handbags go on auction this week…

Entertainment

Class act: Grooming Vibe Check

Today at 14:48 PM, via SowetanLIVE

As the social calendar begins to teem with festivals, daytime events, rugby-match days, and braais with the boys, it’s time to coordinate that same energy with a rolodex of grooming updates that will have you feeling ready to be outside, no matter the occasion.

Science/Tech

Intel’s Open Source Future in Question as Exec Says He’s Done Carrying the Competition

Today at 23:22 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Over the years, Intel has established itself as a paragon of the open source community, but that could soon change under the x86 giant’s new leadership. Speaking to press and analysts at Intel’s Tech Tour in Arizona last week, Kevork Kechichian, who now leads Intel’s datacenter biz, believes it’s time to rethink what Chipzilla contributes to the open source...

Science/Tech

He Was Expected To Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He?

Today at 22:42 PM, via Slashdot

Doug Whitney carries a genetic mutation that guaranteed he would develop Alzheimer’s disease in his late forties or early fifties. His mother and nine of her thirteen siblings died from the disease. His oldest brother died at 45. The mutation has decimated his family for generations. Whitney is now 76 and remains cognitively healthy. The New York Times has a fascinating long read on Whitney and...

Science/Tech

How China Is Hoping to Attract Tech Talent

Today at 22:39 PM, via Wired

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we uncover how America’s new $100,000 H-1B golden visa has thrown tech workers and their employers into chaos.