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Call to reset our relationship with nature, taking mankind out of the centre 06 May 2021 - 15:21 By Mila de Villiers “When a pandemic arises it puts everything that's wrong with our approach to nature and wildlife conservation to the forefront.” This statement à la award-winning local investigative wildlife journalist and author, Adam Cruise. Cruise is speaking to me via Zoom from his home on the outskirts of the southern cape seaside town of George about his latest title, It's Not About the Bats: Conservation, the coronavirus and how we must re-set our relationship with nature....

For many a fan of the MSR (Mulder-Scully Romance), there exists no eighth and ninth season of The X-Files in conventional terms. While such fans appreciate aspects of the second movie, I Want to Believe, and the subsequent revival seasons, for them the classic era of the series ends with ‘Requiem’. The seventh season finale was the natural break point for The X-Files. The story came full circle from the ‘Pilot’ episode, returning to the same town and characters. It could have concluded the final lingering strands of the alien mythology with some kind of grand showdown in Bellefleur...

Power-generating windmill turbines are seen during sunset in Bourlon, France. Photo: Reuters With Earth Day taking place today, look to these five new books about the planet, from a Bill Gates bestseller to a children's book about polar bears. 1. How To Avoid A Climate Disaster - Bill Gates (Non-fiction) Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is thought to have emitted about 5% fewer greenhouse gases last year than the year before. That means releasing the equivalent of 48 or 49 billion tonnes of carbon, instead of 51 billion. "Consider what it took to achieve this 5% reduction," writes ...

Chris Bohjalian Can Read for Hours in the Bath Credit...Jillian Tamaki April 22, 2021 “I also loved to read in swimming pools, pre-Covid, when vacations were a thing,” says the novelist, whose latest book is “Hour of the Witch.” What books are on your night stand? I’m old school and don’t read on a tablet, and so my night stand is a Jenga tower of galleys and manuscripts for books that won’t be published for months. It’s terrifying. One night, it’s going to collapse and kill me in my sleep. There are always at least one or two books that are research for whatever novel I’m...

I. Can’t. Breathe: the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict and the future of US policing; Plus: Wendy Liu on her book ‘Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism’ George Floyd memorial, Minneapolis, MN (Photo: Fibonacci Blue/FLICKR) 0:08 – I. Can’t. Breathe: the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the guilty verdict and what’s next Uncle Bobby X is the uncle of Oscar Grant who was killed by then BART Police Officer in Oakland on January 1, 2009 Chesa Boudin (@chesaboudin) is San Francisco’s newly inaugurated District Attorney and a former public defender, and the son...