Down with borders and *especially* down with immigration detention. Such good work, everyone who went out to protest.
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"Three officials working for the water department confirm that, although there were long-standing plans on how to mitigate the effect of a national drought, these did not get the attention they needed... “What we did instead was pay lip service to water saving and only got serious when the crisis was too late to avert.”" M&G
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"The Cofimvaba Project involves 70 rural schools which have taught maths and science in isiXhosa up to Grade 6 for the past four years. This is by far the most dominant language in the province. English is taught as a subject and is also used bilingually alongside isiXhosa to teach maths and science.
When the project started, learners were scoring on average around 20% in the Department of Basic Education’s Annual National Assessments. This average has improved to around 65%." M&G
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Oh great, a 0.5m sea level rise from the melting of just *one* glacier :( :(
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The 'Swedish model' in action everyone: sex workers still arrested, but now clients *also* arrested. Wow, such compassion, such decriminalisation of women.
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This is great. An important piece of history I genuinely knew nothing about.
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This is genuinely unbelievable. David Cameron presides over enormous cuts in funding to local councils... then writes to his own local council complaining about reductions in services.
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Very detailed overview of the funding and institutional situation regarding higher education in SA at the moment.
"Floyd Shivambu, a [NSFAS] board member during that period [2009], has described how he was approached by the new Director General of DHET and asked to step down because the Minister wanted to introduce free higher education and needed to appoint experts to implement this. What the Minister actually did was appoint a Communist Party member with no expertise in this area. This was followed by a purge of people with skills; some were forced to leave, others left voluntarily due to what one senior staff member described as the ‘de-professionalisation’ of NSFAS."
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People overestimate the risks of sexual activity, due to the stigma associated with STIs... this stigma paradoxically producing *increased risk behaviour*. People respond much more rationally to risk if the big, scary moral component is removed.
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Interesting to read purely because it puts in words something most of us understand instinctively: very few of us are 'loyal' to brands - we just want a product that does the job, at minimal cost and fuss.
"After 10 or 15 years of f***ing around with digital we’ve realised that people don’t want to ‘engage’ with brands, because they don’t care about them."
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Really upsetting footage taken at a pig slaugherhouse in the US. Watch at your own discretion.
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This is good.
"The media does cover Beirut, just as it has been covering Lebanon's refugee plight for years. That's an uncomfortable truth, because rather than giving us an easy villain, it forces us to ask what our own role might be in the world's disproportionate care and concern for one country over another."
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"Mangcu told me that even he feels the instinct to shield young people from history. He is a believer in black consciousness, the philosophy that suggests that black people stagger under an incredible weight of psychological domination by white people. He supports the student protests. But he also has a young daughter who attends a “posh”, predominantly white school – the dream of many black parents. “All of her friends are white children. So I try to avoid a conversation about black history with her. I’m afraid of how she’ll process it. How she’ll relate to her friends. So I haven’t had the courage to do it.”" Guardian
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"Three officials working for the water department confirm that, although there were long-standing plans on how to mitigate the effect of a national drought, these did not get the attention they needed... “What we did instead was pay lip service to water saving and only got serious when the crisis was too late to avert.”" M&G
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"The Cofimvaba Project involves 70 rural schools which have taught maths and science in isiXhosa up to Grade 6 for the past four years. This is by far the most dominant language in the province. English is taught as a subject and is also used bilingually alongside isiXhosa to teach maths and science.
When the project started, learners were scoring on average around 20% in the Department of Basic Education’s Annual National Assessments. This average has improved to around 65%." M&G
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Oh great, a 0.5m sea level rise from the melting of just *one* glacier :( :(
>>><<<
The 'Swedish model' in action everyone: sex workers still arrested, but now clients *also* arrested. Wow, such compassion, such decriminalisation of women.
>>><<<
This is great. An important piece of history I genuinely knew nothing about.
>>><<<
This is genuinely unbelievable. David Cameron presides over enormous cuts in funding to local councils... then writes to his own local council complaining about reductions in services.
>>><<<
Very detailed overview of the funding and institutional situation regarding higher education in SA at the moment.
"Floyd Shivambu, a [NSFAS] board member during that period [2009], has described how he was approached by the new Director General of DHET and asked to step down because the Minister wanted to introduce free higher education and needed to appoint experts to implement this. What the Minister actually did was appoint a Communist Party member with no expertise in this area. This was followed by a purge of people with skills; some were forced to leave, others left voluntarily due to what one senior staff member described as the ‘de-professionalisation’ of NSFAS."
>>><<<
People overestimate the risks of sexual activity, due to the stigma associated with STIs... this stigma paradoxically producing *increased risk behaviour*. People respond much more rationally to risk if the big, scary moral component is removed.
>>><<<
Interesting to read purely because it puts in words something most of us understand instinctively: very few of us are 'loyal' to brands - we just want a product that does the job, at minimal cost and fuss.
"After 10 or 15 years of f***ing around with digital we’ve realised that people don’t want to ‘engage’ with brands, because they don’t care about them."
>>><<<
Really upsetting footage taken at a pig slaugherhouse in the US. Watch at your own discretion.
>>><<<
This is good.
"The media does cover Beirut, just as it has been covering Lebanon's refugee plight for years. That's an uncomfortable truth, because rather than giving us an easy villain, it forces us to ask what our own role might be in the world's disproportionate care and concern for one country over another."
>>><<<
"Mangcu told me that even he feels the instinct to shield young people from history. He is a believer in black consciousness, the philosophy that suggests that black people stagger under an incredible weight of psychological domination by white people. He supports the student protests. But he also has a young daughter who attends a “posh”, predominantly white school – the dream of many black parents. “All of her friends are white children. So I try to avoid a conversation about black history with her. I’m afraid of how she’ll process it. How she’ll relate to her friends. So I haven’t had the courage to do it.”" Guardian
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