South Africa (SA) is aiming to resolve these tensions by peaceful means of developing a Rainbow Nation (RN) building strategy, following the progressive dismantlement of the apartheid regime (Bornman 2011; Petze
In recent years, two apparently contradictory but, in fact, complementary socio-political phenomena have reinforced each other in the European urban realm: the re-scaling of nation-states through “devolution” and the emergence of two opposed versions of “nationalism” (that is, ethnic, non-metr...
Studies on the South African student movement often refer to a context of violence, which is discussed in terms of unjust colonial and apartheid legacies as ‘structural violence’ that continues to manifest in widespread inequality, poverty, unemployment, black and female landlessness, and rampant g...
The proof is in the patterns. When ten thousand visitors of a country fair are asked to guess the amount of beans in a glass jar, the average of all the guesses tends to be more accurate than the best single guess. This is a phenomenon called "the Wisdom of Crowds." As James ...
When I called Esalen, I was told he was giving a lecture out on the lawn and they would give him my message. About two hours later the phone rings and it is Richard asking me, "What's up?" I tell him the story and he listens while saying, "Ahhh..." a lot. I also closed my...
A soak in the Langford Hot Springs is the perfect way to end a day of hiking inside Texas' Big Bend National Park, exploring popular spots like Santa Elena Canyon, once called the Grand Canyon of Texas. J.O. Langford built a limestone bathhouse in the early 1900s after hearing of the ...
What is a haboob? Huge walls of dust are sometimes called a haboob which means “blown” in Arabic. They form when high winds push out of falling thunderstorms. A haboob can reach 1,500 to 3,000 feet tall and 100 miles wide.
Dirty rain is pretty much what it sounds like – dirt that has rained down on your clean car or on your houses windows that now seem cloudy when trying to look outside.The filth is most often present after what appears to be a a typical rainstorm. It may look like water coming from ...
Dirty rain is pretty much what it sounds like – dirt that has rained down on your clean car or on your houses windows that now seem cloudy when trying to look outside.The filth is most often present after what appears to be a a typical rainstorm. It may look like water coming from ...
Dirty rain is pretty much what it sounds like – dirt that has rained down on your clean car or on your houses windows that now seem cloudy when trying to look outside.The filth is most often present after what appears to be a a typical rainstorm. It may look like water coming from ...