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*2003 World Summit Award recognition
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Winner of the NSTF Award for Science
Winner of the Highway Africa New Media award
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This Month's Features
DIY backup power
 Tired
of the daily load-shedding in southern Africa? Get pro-active with a
DIY guide to setting up a 220 V backup power supply.
Neglected fruits of Africa
 Africa's
own fruits are a largely untapped resource that could combat
malnutrition and boost environmental stability.
Indigenous African silk
 The
exceptional quality of silk from indigenous south African moths weaves
a promise of environmental and economic sustainability.
Africa's agricultural jewels
 Seed
samples from more than 36 African nations reach a remote vault in the
Arctic - as a repository of last resort for humanity’s agricultural
heritage.
Health
 Eat
well, earn well
Eating nutritious food at an early age will not only ensure a source
of income as an adult but also better pay.
Curbing spread of TB
 Engineers
and architects improve the design of healthcare facilities,
particularly to prevent the spread of airborne diseases such as TB.
Whatever happened to SARS?
 What
happened to SARS and are there lessons to be learned for dealing with
other epidemics such as human avian influenza?
Insight & Opinion
Army's drug cure raises moral time-bomb
The US Army's proposed use of the heart drug Propranolol to treat
combat-related post-traumatic stress in order to suppress 'unspeakable
memories' raises ethical, moral issues.
Global
warming and maize
As global warming pushes temperatures up and droughts become more
intense, the production of maize, southern Africa's staple food, could
drop by as much as 30 percent in two decades.
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In this Issue
A Big Mac and fries may be the quintessential fast food meal, but it can
also be viewed as the perfect example of humanity's increasingly globalised
diet.
Socially-learned cultural behavior thought
to be unique to humans is also found among chimpanzees colonies.
Two new 110 million-year-old dinosaurs unearthed in the Sahara Desert
highlight the unusual meat-eaters that prowled southern continents during
the Cretaceous Period.
This month brings the last chance to see a total eclipse of the moon from
southern Africa for seven years.
While our relationships with children and best friends tend to become
less negative as we age, we're more likely to see our spouses as irritating
and demanding.
Conservation
A 'barcode' gene that can be used to distinguish between the majority of
plant species on Earth has been identified by scientists
Searching for night time spinach (wild meat) sustains a thriving industry
for meat-hungry refugees in Tanzania.
Education
Five years after retooling its first recycled computers and finding them
a good home, Computers for Schools Kenya (CFSK) has won a coveted
Africa-wide prize.
Scifest Africa, Africa's largest science festival to celebrate 2008 as
International Year of Planet Earth.
Destructive fishing has many critics, with the newest being an animated
fish puppet emerging from an icebox to push the virtues of sustainably
caught seafood.
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