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A year to the General Election, several politicians eyeing the presidency have been making frequent tours in Murang'a to woo voters.

Hot on the heels of the devastating fire at the University of Cape Town narrowly missing the famous Bolus Herbarium, the Albany Museum’s Selmar Schonland Herbarium, closely associated with Rhodes University, barely escaped a devastation of its own la

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  The COVID-19 infection is currently so common within the society that, if care is not taken, every death would be classified as C19 because almost everyone, healthy or sick, has a trace of the novel Coronavirus now (termed C19-related). It is also true that almost all our health workers, including doctors and nurses, have tested positive for C19. (The virus is present in our hospitals, wards or OPD). But the actual diseases killing people are known and must be tackled. Testing positive to C1...

Opinion - In remembrance of Kirsten Alnaes 2021-02-17  Prof Peter H. Katjavivi Professor Kirsten Elisabeth Alnaes, Norwegian social anthropologist, whose doctoral thesis was on the cosmology of the Konzo in Uganda, and who did extensive oral history with the Herero community in Botswana, passed away on 4 February this year. Born 8 May 1927, in Hattfjelldal, Norway, Kirsten studied social anthropology at the University of Oslo. There she met fellow anthropologist Axel Sommerfelt and they wer...

5 things to try if you’re stuck in an energy slump 12 Jan 2021460 Views Prof Peter Heslin of Sydney’s University of New South Wales explains what to do when you’ve hit a productivity block at work. A version of this article was originally published by The Conversation (CC BY-ND 4.0) For most of us, 2020 was an exhausting year. The Covid-19 pandemic heralded draining physical health concerns, social isolation, job dislocation, uncertainty about the future and related me...

UBC public health faculty members pen letter slamming director’s Hawaiian vacation Simon Little © UBC Director of UBCs School of Population and Public Health Dr. Peter Berman poses with UBC President Santa Ono. Nearly two dozen faculty members of UBCs School of Population and Public Health have signed a letter expressing dismay over their directors travel to Hawaii amid COVID-19 restrictions. Dr. Peter Berman apologized this week for taking an overseas vacation, despite pub...

UK Faces Food Shortages As A Result Of Conflicted Government Science By John Stone European countries have been shutting down their borders with the United Kingdom following advice that it harbours a 70% more contagious version of the Covid virus, which has already led to the new Tier 4 lockdown arrangements in Southern England and the effective cancellation of Christmas. Whether the mutation is actually more contagious is a matter for dispute between two Oxford professors. The case that the �...