Category: Fire (Social)

Just got an invite to a SAFeAGE showing of The Future of Food at the Labia. Will paste the details below for anyone in Cape Town and interested. SOUTH AFRICAN FREEZE ALLIANCE ON GENETIC ENGINEERING (SAFeAGE) INVITES YOU TO A SHOWING OF THE FILM THE FUTURE OF FOOD By Lily Films ON WORLD CONSUMER DAY… Continue reading The Future of Food

The label pseudo-science is an interesting one, so often used by the mainstream to discredit new findings, or directions of exploration. What it really should be used for is to label all those researchers paid by a vested interest to suppress a finding they’re unhappy with. Or just plain bad research methodologies. I’m applying it… Continue reading Unethical vegan parents and the art of headline skimming

Since stopping eating meat, and even more so since having a son who we’ve agreed will follow a similar diet, I’ve been studying up on nutrition. And a good thing too, because if I’d relied upon some of the ‘experts’, I’d have been taking the advice of the clinic and force-feeding Dorje margarine in an… Continue reading Margarine and Meat Juice

I have a soft spot for Telkom. Without them, I would never have mastered controlling my temper to the same degree. Who else could aggravate me to such an extent as South Africa’s favourite monopoly? I remember my first encounters with them. I had a room in a house in Observatory, with my own phone,… Continue reading Why I like Telkom

On becoming a parent, I’m told, there are four things to do. Own a green card, giving access to all Cape Nature Conservation sites, such as Cape Point and Boulders, an Aquarium card, a Botanical Society card and a World of Birds card. I’m not doing too badly, scoring 75% as a parent, the aquarium… Continue reading Being a good parent, the World of Birds and the horrors of Nedbank

Recently got myself a whole lot of Adbuster magazines on the Community Exchange System. Some great reading. One article (from 2003) gives me some more insight into the demise of press freedom in the US. I’d noticed that the US dropped quite rapidly in the World Press Freedom Index in 2003 (below South Africa!), but… Continue reading World Press Freedom Index – SA down, US up

Driving home a short while ago, I saw embers all along Ou Kaapse Weg, and towards Tokai. It’s only 5 years since the huge fires of Jan 2000. It may look like the fynbos has recovered remarkably, and I’m sure after the winter rains everything will be green again, but some of the plants, in… Continue reading Cape Town burning

Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile, head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, has done a 12-year study on creativity, and came up with some interesting conclusions. You can read more about the methodology in this article from Fastcompany, but, in brief, the study came up with six main myths: 1. Creativity Comes From Creative Types… Continue reading 6 myths of creativity

Well, not quite a march of the ents, but I spotted this snippet in the Argus: The City of Cape Town has ordered the owners of two properties near Gordon’s Bay to rehabilitate their land after bulldozers ripped up endangered fynbos. A small item, with even less detail than the original article. But good news… Continue reading Fynbos restoration and the media

I’ve just come back from 3 days in Betty’s Bay, a particularly beautiful part of the country. Apparently the coastal road between there and Gordon’s Bay has been voted the 4th most beautiful drive in the world according to some or other survey. I can well imagine, as I’ve known this area well since childhood,… Continue reading March of the Ents