Wise words are not enough to fix South Africa’s economy
The country’s reformist finance minister bumps up against political realityFeb 26th 2020JOHANNESBURGTWO DAYS before he outlined South Africa’s budget, Tito Mboweni shared a Photoshopped picture of himself in a spacesuit. The caption read: “man on a mission”. It was characteristic skylarking by the finance minister, an ebullient reformer who spends much of his time warning…
Scientists Discover First-Ever Animal That Doesn’t Need Oxygen to Survive
Scientists recently found a jellyfish-like organism which doesn’t possess a mitochondrial genome – the first multicellular being identified to have this absence. In layman’s terms, it does not breathe; in reality, it lives its life totally free of oxygen reliance. Life began developing the aptitude to metabolize oxygen – respirate, that is – a little…