Posts by Entrepreneur South Africa
The Eye Disorder That Comes for Those in Middle Age
I was surprised to learn that, were it not for my myopia, I might have noticed the presbyopia sooner. “A low amount of myopia is actually very, very convenient,” Xiaoying Zhu, a professor who specializes in myopia management, explained. “For myopic patients, if you don’t wear your distance correction, it’s like you have a pair…
Read MoreThe Lonely Men at the End of the World
In Patagonia, los puesteros look after other people’s livestock for not very much money, and sometimes go months without seeing anyone else. Source link
Read MoreBuffalo resident aids in relief amidst destruction from earthquake in Colombia
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — “I just received a notification that another building collapsed.” This is what MarCe Zerrate said as WIVB News 4 spoke to her via Zoom from Colombia. Zerrate was born in Colombia and moved to Buffalo in 2005. On Monday, she was back in Cali, Colombia, visiting her mother when tragedy struck.…
Read MoreMexico’s Indigenous chief justice hits back at discrimination
Mexico’s Supreme Court chief justice told AFP he faces discrimination on a daily basis over his Indigenous roots. Hugo Aguilar is the first Indigenous Mexican to preside over the country’s top court in 168 years. He attributes the achievement to a voting reform championed by the leftist government, which sees judges elected by a popular…
Read MoreBernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. The data centers that power artificial intelligence are being built at a rampant pace, and are spurring resistance all over the country. Apart from public concerns about A.I.’s…
Read MoreRussia rejects Black Sea ceasefire
Moscow has rejected a Turkish proposal to stop Ukrainian and Russian attacks on ships in the Black Sea, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday. Russia is repeatedly confronted with Ukraine’s “unbridled acts of terror,” she said in Moscow, accusing Ukraine of using drones to attack civilian ships from neighbouring states. A “half-hearted…
Read MorePhoebe Bridgers Comes Back to Earth
“Lost Weekend” announces itself as a return from time spent in the wilderness. “WIFE IS HOME FROM WAR,” read one typically parasocial fan comment on a promotional Instagram post. “Lemme up my medication in advance,” read another—Bridgers’s fans like to joke about the emotionally devastating effect of her music. Yet the album begins not with…
Read MoreToons Have Seldom Been Loonier Than in “Coyote vs. Acme”
In the 1952 “Looney Tunes” short “Operation: Rabbit,” Bugs Bunny encounters another member of the cartoon-critter pantheon. “Allow me to introduce myself,” the figure says, brandishing a business card. “My name is Wile E. Coyote, Genius.” It wasn’t quite the character’s first appearance—he’d made his début three years earlier, chasing the Road Runner, in “Fast and…
Read MoreGerman corporate insolvencies dip for first time since February
FILE PHOTO – “We’re closing. Everything must go” banner in the doorway of a shop in the centre of the German city of Erfurt. (is associated with: «German corporate insolvencies dip for first time since February») Martin Schutt/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa The number of corporate insolvencies in Germany has fallen for the first time since February, the Federal…
Read MoreThey’ve survived 2 major earthquakes in Colombia: “A sense of powerlessness”
Jahir Rodríguez knew what was happening when he saw thick, dark clouds forming near his home in western Colombia on Monday morning. Parts of his dear Pereira were crumbling. The urban planner and former professor also knows what happens next after a powerful earthquake devastates whole communities. He sprang into action after a deadly 1999 quake…
Read More“The Hobbler,” by Ingeborg Bachmann
Maybe there’s still hope for a new morning, for clouds that cluster like ripe grapes which, when squeezed, will release from the heavens the sweet streams of enchanted days. Source link
Read MoreMonth-old video of storm hitting eastern China misrepresented as Typhoon Dolphin
Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in eastern China in August 2026, causing flooding and heavy downpours. But a video circulating online is not linked to the storm; the footage was actually filmed during Typhoon Bavi, which struck the same region a month earlier. “Real-time track of Typhoon Dolphin: A repeat of the Doksuri disaster? The northern…
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