Elon Musk’s ‘solar powered’ hot air – Ivo Vegter
Elon Musk has a sideline selling solar panels. He says they produce more power than a nuclear power station for the same land area. That is a towering lie.
Elon Musk has a sideline selling solar panels. He says they produce more power than a nuclear power station for the same land area. That is a towering lie.
More interesting than the details of the transaction announced on Nasdaq is the confirmation it provides for those building global businesses from the low-cost SA base.
Pieter Steenekamp has a dream that South African universities will embrace high quality, low cost, online tertiary education.
The irony would be lost on Ntokozo Qwabe, the 25 year old Rhodes scholar famous for biting the long-dead hand of his benefactor, making waitresses cry and, now, leading the chaos at UCT.
It’s no surprise that South African universities have slipped on the QS World University Rankings 2016/17. Steuart Pennington, Mr SA Good News, takes a look at the data.
Architect, engineer, designer and MIT professor Carlo Ratti was rated by Wired magazine as one of the 50 people who are changing our world.
The FT’s brilliant columnist tackles how she thinks one should respond to silent treatment on email. Without going crazy. With practical advice, too.
In Davos this year, many of us were treated to a glimpse of the future through The Second Machine Age, a brilliant new book by two MIT professors. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andy McAfee admit they got the idea for the book after visiting the Google Campus where they were staggered by driverless cars that have … Read more
Aniket Shah, co-editor of the book ‘Learning from the World: New Ideas to Redevelop America’, is one of those clever people who try to help the world solve big problems. In this case, the problem is the US economy’s structural problems. Shah and his co-editor have decided to show the US what it can learn … Read more
By Alec Hogg You only get to realise what works after you’ve tried it. I spent ages yesterday attempting to publish pictures into the Davos Diary posting. It worked out OK – but have since realised that a much better option for everyone is putting the pics onto my Facebook page. And adding captions so … Read more