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Background to  #ImStaying In 2011, Liana Barciela Hassim’s father had a heart attack while she was studying in the US. She had five flights ahead of her to make her way home to SA. Walking on to the second flight, she got the news that her father had died. Hassim “crumpled” in the queue. “Throughout the rest of the journey, I cried, wailed and found corners in airports to sit by myself. People stared, gawked actually. Laughed. An American lady tapped me on the shoulder to say, ‘Don’t worry honey, you’ll find another man.’ The Germans shuffled along quickly as if I had contracted the bubonic plague. Everyone minded their own, mostly,” Hassim said.  She then landed in Johannesburg and everything changed. “The first Afrikaans tannie who saw me, pulling me by arm, asked me what was wrong, enveloping me in a larger than life hug. She stroked my hair, fed me with something sugary and asked me what I needed. “Later on in yet another long queue, a gogo, seeing I was distres

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Google’s new quantum computer reportedly spends mere minutes on the tasks the world’s top supercomputers would need several millennia to perform. The media found out about this after NASA “accidentally” shared the firm’s research. The software engineers at Google have built the world’s most powerful computer, the Financial Times and Fortune magazine  reported  on Friday, citing the company’s now-removed research paper. The paper is said to have been posted on a website hosted by NASA, which partners with Google, but later quietly taken down, without explanation. Google and NASA have refused to comment on the matter. A source within the IT giant, however,  told  Fortune that NASA had  “accidentally”  published the paper before its team could verify its findings. In the research, Google reportedly  claimed  that it takes their new quantum processor just around 200 seconds to make calculations that existing supercomputers would require around 10,000 years to perform. They a

There’s no doubt about it — trees are good for the planet. The power of trees has dominated headlines all summer. In late July, Ethiopia claimed to have set a world record by  planting 350 million tree saplings in a single day.  The initiative was part of a wider tree planting policy launched by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whose administration aims to tackle deforestation and climate change by planting 4.7 billion trees by October this year. Also in July, The Crowther Lab of ETH Zurich published a  study  which found that planting billions of trees across the world was the most affordable and effective way of tackling climate change. Not only do trees clean our air and help fight climate change — but they also promote biodiversity. A  study  carried out in Costa Rica found that planting a single tree could boost the number of bird species from near zero to 80. Trees also offer infinite, tangible benefits to farmers. They improve soil quality, reduce soil erosio

Science Tech World BREAKING: Zuckerberg sponsoring Area 51 raid to free his dad from captivity Much hype has been made of the storming of Area 51: more than a half-million strangers will gather in a remote Nevada town in mid-September, united by a common goal. Less attention has been paid to the financial sponsor of the project: Facebook’s  Mark Zuckerberg . The social media titan has been funneling money into the project since the beginning after other attempts to gain access to the facility has failed. Most people already know that Zuckerberg is a mixed species android with little to no empathy. What Genesius Times investigative reporters have discovered is that Zuckerberg’s alien android dad Data is still alive and resides somewhere in Area 51. The Adventures Of Tripp Fantastic Chapter Eight : When A Snake Eats Its Own Tale What Does It Poo. READ “This is big news,” Bobby Mulligan said of the finding. “I always kne

The overall population of honeybees in the US, Canada and Europe has held steady or increased slightly since the widespread adoption of neonics in the 1990s. The US honeybee population hit a  22-year high in 2016 , according to the figures released by the USDA before dipping slightly last year, and  globally are at an all-time high . So what’s behind the popular meme of the honeybee, legs pointing to the sky? As often happens in discussing controversial issues such as food and chemicals, it’s complicated––and in part ideological. First of all, honeybees  aren’t the cute symbol of the natural world  that environmentalists make them out to be. They’re actually a managed species, like  livestock , bred by beekeepers to make honey and shipped around the country to pollinate crops like almonds. They’re also an exotic species in North America, brought over from Europe by early colonists. [Note: European honeybees  originated in Asia 300,000 years ago .] It’s