About a week ago, I blogged about the upcoming CANSA Shavathon on Saturday, the 7th of March 2009. Well, we went and did it! And we survived the embarrassment of getting our heads shaved in public. I’d emailed all my (local) friends as well as all the students in our research group at varsity, and…
Every year in February, the Remember And Give (RAG) team at the University of Cape Town publishes an irreverent, funny, satirical – and sometimes offensive – magazine known as Sax Appeal in order to raise funds for the Students’ Health and Welfare Centres Organisation (SHAWCO), which does truly amazing and inspirational work in very difficult…
I was thinking a bit today about the inspirational talks I’ve been lucky to listen to over the last year. In February last year, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens offered a series of star walks, in which visitors were allowed into the Gardens in the evening and taught a little bit about astronomy. We were fortunate to…
The Cancer Association of South Africa is holding its annual countrywide Shavathon on Saturday, 7 March 2009, the day before the big Argus Cycle Tour, where I don’t know how many thousands of cyclists make their 110 km way around the Cape Peninsula. The CANSA Shavathon (this year’s will be the sixth) is taking place…
On Saturday, 28 March 2009, at 20h30, lights will be turned off throughout the world for an hour. The big switch-off is part of the annual Earth Hour campaign of the Worldwide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The campaign was initiated in Australia a mere two years ago, when 2.2 million people in Sydney…
Tonight, we attended a public lecture by Prof Malcolm Longair (a very eminent British astronomer and cosmologist) (he even has his own Wikipedia entry) at the MTN Sciencentre at Canal Walk. It was the first time I’d been inside the Sciencentre, although we’d probably walked past it dozens of times. It was fantastic that the…
Grains of Sand 