Science Cafe Cape Town

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Well Done to the South African SKA Team (http://www.ska.ac.za/) for reaching this milestone on their way to achieving the full Square Kilometer Array of radio telescopes.

Already the 64 array is the largest in the world and returning never-before seen images of our Milky Way galaxy.
Also, it uncovered a super massive Black Hole in the middle of our galaxy. What!!?😎

SKA precursor telescope MeerKAT inaugurated in South Africa - SKA Telescope South Africa, 13 July 2018 – South Africa’s 64-dish MeerKAT telescope, one of the SKA’s precursor telescopes, was officially inaugurated by Deputy President David Mabuza at a ceremony near Carnarvon today. Built and operated by the South African Radio Astronomy … Read more

How wild animals are hacking life in the city - Urban Caracal Project, Cape Town, South Africa

How Wild Animals Are Hacking Life in the City Mountain lions and ants are among the many species great and small figuring out clever ways to live among people.

Grandma's Experiences Leave Epigenetic Mark on Your Genes | DiscoverMagazine.com Your ancestors' lousy childhoods or excellent adventures might change your personality, bequeathing anxiety or resilience by altering the epigenetic expressions of genes in the brain.

Zombie genes awake!
Preliminary animal studies hint that hundreds of genes may still be active days after death.
Could help with organ donation, cancer treatment and forensics.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2094644-hundreds-of-genes-seen-sparking-to-life-two-days-after-death/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2094644-hundreds-of-genes-seen-sparking-to-life-two-days-after- The discovery that many genes are still working up to 48 hours after death has implications for organ transplants, forensics and our very definition of death

The Artist as Errant | Contemporary And In an age where video and multimedia installation are the defining media of artistic expression, linocut and screen-print might be ...

The Urban Caracal Project is crowdsourcing funding to support their research.
There are 3 days to go - please support them, they are doing some great work.

https://experiment.com/projects/the-urban-caracal-project-exploring-how-wild-caracals-persist-in-a-rapidly-urbanizing-landscape

The Urban Caracal Project: Exploring how wild caracals persist in a rapidly urbanizing landscape As global urbanization rapidly expands, wildlife species are increasingly endangered by human activities. We are assessing how the stressors of city life (disease, habitat loss, roads, and pesticides) are affecting caracals (Caracal caracal) in and around Cape Town, South Africa. We are...

ScicafeCT is on hiatus for the foreseeable future.

It’s been a difficult decision for us as the organisers of scicafeCT - Saberi Marais, Kerry Gordon and JD de Villiers - because we’ve loved bringing interesting science stories to you every month and have always been so grateful for the immense support and enjoyment everyone who has attended scicafeCT has shown.

We are finding it difficult to fit running ScicafeCT into the growing demands of our work and personal lives. After much discussion, we’ve decided to take some time to regroup. We hope that in this time we can come up with model that will allow ScicafeCT to continue.

Again, we are so grateful for your support - ScicafeCT would not have had two amazingly successful years without you. As always we encourage your feedback and suggestions and welcome any comments on our decision.
You can reply here or email us on [email protected]

Progress on a Universal Cancer Vaccine, an Inflatable Space Habitat, and Blocking Mobile Ads A tool for recruiting the immune system to fight cancer, and a look at mobile ad-blocking software.

Thoughtful article on measures we can introduce to avert our post-antibiotic era

The Plan to Avert Our Post-Antibiotic Apocalypse A new report estimates that by 2050, drug-resistant infections will kill one person every three seconds, unless the world’s governments take drastic steps now.

No scicafeCT this month.

Good news is you can get your geek fix at the of science festival from Mon 23 - Wed 25 May at St Pepper's on Long St and Empire Café, Muizenberg.

SCHEDULE of Talks
Monday 23 May
Speaker 1 Prof Jo Barnes
Poor sanitation damages our health and our environment
Speaker 2 Dr Peter Johnston
Global warming, El Nino, and climate change.....the end of the world as we know it?

Tuesday 24 May
Speaker 1 Sharon Knowles
Who is the Big Bad Wolf? Cyber bullying
Speaker 2 Mr Paul Mesarcik
Lumkanifire - Engineering resilient communities

Wednesday 25 May
Speaker 1 Prof Nox Makunga
Mining our medicinal fynbos goldmine with biotechnology tools
Speaker 2 Gráinne Perkins
Petri dishes, Pint Glasses and Post Mortems

Still time to book tickets at R35 via Quicket http://www.quicket.co.za/events/16232-pint-of-science-festival-empire-cafe/ #/schedules
and R40 at the door

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