The judiciary and the legal profession carry immense cultural power. Judges and advocates are not only interpreters of law, they are custodians of the nation’s moral vocabulary. When they resort to chauvinistic metaphors or cultural relativism to explain away misogyny, they do more than offend; ...

Additional context on Rosalind Franklin - www.nature.com/articles/d41... Her name should be acknowledged with the same prominence as Crick & Watson.

Over the past 10 years, researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand analysed small tissue samples of 1,586 children under five who died at public health facilities in Soweto. Results show that more than half of the deaths in newborns and about a third in infants were caused by just two ...

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What a great tragedy. Jane Goodall. Thank you for the tireless work.

Two researchers explain the disinformation tactics used by Christian fundamentalist groups to attack transgender and gender-diverse people.

Two genes found to shed new light on breast cancer in Black women share.google/FIGdzaUGBETA...

Stone tools from a cave on South Africa’s coast speak of life at the end of the Ice Age theconversation.com/stone-tools-...

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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

On this sad news day, here is a blackback lowland gorilla from Gabon to cheer you up!

I took some time to write up my thoughts about the process of review and publication in @elife.bsky.social of our recent paper on Homo naledi burial evidence. It was a great process in many ways, that built up a strong interdisciplinary result. johnhawks.net/weblog/buria...

Learn about our impacts and meet our team, in our 2023/2024 biennial report bit.ly/4bzL8lq Thank you to our partners and supporters for your contribution to realising a society where children are valued and nurtured, and can participate, develop and thrive. #EngagedScholarship #KnowledgeTranslation

The life of English humanitarian, whistleblower, and activist Emily Hobhouse in this week's History Extra podcast. Her work still rings true for women in war. #Herstory podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Approximately 12.5% of in-hospital patients in Africa are gravely ill, and they are not getting the care they need. Bruce Biccard of UCT's Global Surgery Division found 21% of these patients die within 7 days of admission: www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-202...

These are ancient waterfalls in the now-dry Kalahari. Called tufas, HERI researchers have dated them to between 110,000 to 100,000 years ago - exactly when evidence of modern humans was found nearby. Read more of their findings here: https://buff.ly/49idakk

25 Feb 1536. Chapuys. "The Concubine attributed the misfortune [miscarriage] to the King's fall; and, secondly, that the love she bore him was far greater than that of the late Queen, so that her heart broke when she saw that he loved others [Jane Seymour]" allabouthistory.co.uk/FxNI3drd#HyLPvhKf

Peanut, one of our besties. She's rescued, laying on her favorite place on the bed, my pillows.

A since-deleted tweet by a South African podcaster has popularised the false claim that all antiretroviral medications administered in South Africa were paid for by US aid. But this is FALSE: US aid made up less than a fifth of the country’s funding for HIV/Aids. africacheck.info/sa_hiv_funding

Celebrating 100 years after the Taung Child fossil with a collection of articles. www.nature.com/collections/...

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... After being blind for years, two patients recently each received an artificial cornea, and Tygerberg Hospital in the Western Cape hopes to continue providing this service to those who need it in future.

Behind the scenes, making a historical, virtual reality film. #Herstory thestoryofemily.com/stories-of-e...

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