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Cheetah Cubs’ Live Birth Webcam
Oh the things that the internet allows us to experience! Wildlife webcam specialists Africam.com have got together with the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC) to bring us another world first via the miracle of live streaming video over the internet. One of the HESC resident females named Salome is expecting [...]
SAMA 2012 Awards–All The Winners
So, after the mini-debacle that was the 2011 SAMA Awards at Monte Casino last year, this year saw the biggest event in South African music returning to its sort-of-ancestral home in Sun City. A revamped format now covering two separate award nights saw the first (Sunday) focusing on the technical [...]
How Big Is Space? A HUGE Infographic
Just how big is space? The answer to that question, it turns out, is “really, really, really big”. About 27 A4 sheets of paper big in fact. The clever folk (read “space geeks”) in the BBC’s Future office recently challenged themselves to try to illustrate just how big space really [...]
Friday Photo 40: Bird Strike
My cameras have been stashed away for the past few months as I move work spaces from one end of the “office” to the other. Packing stuff up was pretty straightforward. Unpacking on the other hand has turned into a bit of a hit or miss affair. Today I found [...]
BalconyTV Live From Joburg
Founded in Dublin, Ireland in 2006, BalconyTV is a video music web site with a difference: all of the acts featured on the site are filmed performing live on a balcony. And while that may sound like a bit of a gimmicky approach, the results are surprisingly good. And now [...]
The Pope and the Rabbi
An oldie to lighten the heaviness of Monday… Several centuries ago, the Pope decreed that all the Jews in Italy had to convert to Catholicism or leave the country. There was a huge outcry from the Jewish community, so the Pope offered a deal: he’d have a religious debate with [...]
F1 Season is around the corner
It has been a while since I have made my voice heard round these parts, but I think it is important to let all our readers note that it is time to prepare… Prepare for probably the best season of Formula 1 racing we have been witness to in [...]
